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Watch Movement Types: Mechanical, Automatic, Qu...
Mechanical, automatic and quartz movements explained: how a mainspring, a rotor and a vibrating crystal each keep time, and what the difference means on the wrist.
Seneca Quotes on Time, and What He Actually Meant
Seneca quotes on time, checked against the public-domain translations, with the passage each comes from and the famous lines that are not his.
What a Gladiator Actually Was in Ancient Rome
What the word gladiator meant, who actually fought, the real classes and rules, and which famous details about the arena turn out to be wrong.
What Amor Fati Means and Why It Is Hard
Amor fati means love of fate. It is Nietzsche's phrase, not an ancient Stoic one, and the difference between bearing what happens and loving it is the whole difficulty.
What Horse Symbolism Actually Means
The horse shaped the words chivalry and cavalier, was buried with kings, and gave Greece the Centaur. What it has symbolized, and why status is the thread.
Tennis Scoring Explained
How tennis scoring works, straight from the ITF rules: love, 15, 30, 40, deuce, the tie-break, and why the system makes no arithmetical sense.
The Four Stoic Virtues, and What Each One Meant
Wisdom, courage, justice and temperance, with the definitions the Stoics actually used, the sub-virtues under each, and why they held that you cannot have one without all four.
The Parts of a Watch, and What Each One Does
Every part of a mechanical watch solves one problem: turning stored energy into an even beat. What the mainspring, fusee, balance and escapement each do, and when they appeared.
Epictetus Quotes on What You Control
Epictetus quotes checked against the public-domain translations, with chapter numbers, plus the famous lines that are paraphrases rather than quotations.