The English educator and Greek scholar Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) is famous for his translation of the dialogues of Plato and for his academic reforms at Oxford. Benjamin Jowett was born on April 15, 1817, at Camberwell, London. He was educated at St....

From the sixteenth century onward through the nineteenth, families in the West became smaller and more nuclear, that is, centered around a single married couple and their children. Although historians have vigorously debated the meaning, causes, and...

Benjamin Jowett (April 15, 1817 – October 1, 1893) was an English scholar, classicist and theologian, and Master of Balliol College,...

For Francisco ('Chico') Buarque de Hollanda the description multi-talented seems hopelessly inadequate. A singer, composer, dramatist and novelist, for over 30 years he has played a central role in the cultural life of Brazil while commanding adulation as a superstar of the music...

When John Jowett suffered a massive heart attack in Canada in October 2004, the bill for medical expenses and repatriation topped pounds 70,000. Fortunately, he was covered by an Axa annual travel policy. Or so he thought. But, as it turned out, Axa decided...