It is well known that in antique times the institution of slavery was pervasive. The ancient Athenians may have invented democracy, but the voters still depended on slaves to serve the wine at the symposium. As for the Romans, they may have been marvellous engineers, but it was their slaves who ran ...
Back in the Sixties, it took footage shot from the surface of the moon for the world to see itself as a single, isolated entity. People watched the Earth rise above the lunar horizon and saw for the first time what they had hitherto dimly perceived, that we were all on the same rotating ball, and th...
