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The great oak and philosopher

Zhuangzi was an ancient philosopher, approximately around the third century BC lived. He was a founder of Taoism, along with Laozi. His style of deployment of its principles and ideas was a little different than those of other philosophers. He does not leave, written records explains his philosophy. Instead, he left many stories that contain significant and profound meanings. Of the written records exist, he seems to have been a naturalist. You tell us his stories plenty of nature and natural features, such as a tree, an insect, a fish, a bird, or a spirit. He used trees more than once in his stories, to teach people the true nature of existence. A mahogany appears in several of his stories, but for this story, he used an oak. In a part of China, there was a huge oak tree. The tree was so large that 100 cows could be under his shadow. The tribe was so thick that 200 people not enough to encircle it. Many people came to the structure, see every day out of sheer curiosity. A Carpenter an...

Johann Sebastian Bach, father of the great music, takes his final breath

The last years of his life as relatives of Catharina Dorothea, daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach My father suffered eye problems for the last ten years of his life. Until the beginning of 1749, he could no longer work full capacity. He was eye simply tired and broken by his constant problems, sometimes rendered him nearly blind. Make matters worse, in addition, the terrible and tactless authorities in the City Council allows even a candidate, a Mr Harrer, for which my father one year before the death of my father take the post of Cantor of St. Thomas. The town Chronicle also reported that the authorities on the great Johann Sebastian Bach were counted death. Yet, on my father, as he was his wife Anna Magdalena and his new son-in-law able, with his compositions and correspondence with the help and former pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol married my sister Elisabeth Juliane Friederica. It was all a difficult period for us. Finally, my was father's eyesight and h...