An investigation by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture, was responding to statements by whom?
Galileo Galilei Galileo was championing the theory explored by Nicolaus Copernicus that the Earth and the other planets circle the Sun (heliocentrism) and not the other way round. The same theory has been proposed since at least the 5th century BCE.
Which was a journalist whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, the subject of a 2003 film starring Cate Blanchett?
It is generally believed that which Ancient Roman festival, an archaic rite connected to fertility observed from 13 to 15 February, was converted by the Roman Catholic Church to honour the Virgin Mary which in turn became St Valentine's day?
