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Featured Article: Paleogene
The Paleogene period is an interval of about 42 million years defined on the geologic timescale as spanning roughly from 65 to 23 million years ago (mya) and being most notable as the time in which mammals became very diversified and dominant after the great Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event killed an estimated 76 percent of the species on Earth, including most of the dinosaurs. The Paleogene period also encompassed the dramatic global warming event known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Popular Article: Ito Jinsai
ItÅ Jinsai (August 30, 1627 â April 5, 1705), who also went by the pen name Keisai, was a Japanese Confucian philosopher, sinologist, and educator. Along with his contemporary Yamaga SokÅ, he pioneered the Kogaku philosophical movement in reaction to the stifling Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi. Building on Mencius' interpretation of Confucius, which placed the common people above the rulers, his Kogaku developed an approach to Confucianism that promoted human morality and happiness through rational thought rather than authoritarian rules. He believed that Confucianism should be practiced in everyday life, and that human emotion needed to be expressed in poetry.
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The Pueblo Indians successfully revolted against Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century. Although this success lasted only 12 years it deterred the Spanish from attempts to eradicate their culture and religion. (source: Pueblo Indians)
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