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1 day ago by late adopter

"As Malden recalled in 1991 in The Times, Corridan 'was a Jesuit priest who taught law to the longshoremen. . . . The scene in the hold of the ship, he wrote at least 80% of that speech. A man came to him and said, "Father John, I can't get a chit to go to work. Now I haven't gotten a chit in two mo ...

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2 days ago by Fabrice Lyczba

Lewis J. Selznick writes to the Czar of all Russia, on his recent demotion: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF PETROGRAD, RUSSIA WHEN I WAS POOR BOY IN KEIV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMENT WERE NOT KIND TO ME AND MY PEOPLE STOP I CAME TO AMERICA AND PROSPERED STOP NOW HEAR WITH REGRET YOU ARE OUT OF A JOB OVER THERE STOP [. ...

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3 days ago by late adopter

"In The Philip Johnson Tapes, Johnson recounts that in the mid-1950s, he invited Mies, with whom he was collaborating on the Seagram Building, for an overnight visit. At 10:30 in the evening, Mies emerged from the nearby guesthouse and told his host that he wanted to leave. Johnson thought he was jo ...

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3 days ago by lucy

The chapel that for centuries was regarded as the “private” chapel of the popes and their household, or “famiglia”, has finally undergone a major restoration and will be opened by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 July. “This chapel is the core of the Catholic Church’s identity, to an even greater extent than ...

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4 days ago by Marisa Urgo

This is not jihad-related, per se, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. The other day a colleague told me that Pashtunwali requires that if one of the parties in a dispute doesn't accept the rulings of the jirga, they can burn down that tribesman's house. Oh, really? Wait, really? You mean ...

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5 days ago by Administrator

What historians typically designate as the ancient Greek period are the years between 1000 B.C. and 323 B.C. when Alexander the Great died or through the 3rd century C.E., when the Christian era began. The legacy of Greek civilization was greatly influential to the succeeding Roman Empire and to sub ...

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6 days ago by mister anchovy

I've posted this video before but I like it so much I feel like posting it again. It features Dewey Balfa, Nathan Abshire, Tony Balfa and Rockin' Dopsie playing in a school and teaching kids about their musical tradition. There isn't a lot of footage out there featuring Nathan Abshire. Here he plays ...

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6 days ago by late adopter

"Murdoch's health has improved remarkably, but he still moves gingerly, as if he doesn’t want to wake his own body. After playing for a while, he rose slowly from the piano and refreshed everyone’s drink. 'We lost a lot of the original fans when I stopped being miserable,' Murdoch told me recently. ...

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7 days ago by lucy

When I recently met Antonio Forcellino in Rome he told me about this 3-part documentary. If you skip the toe-curlingly melodramatic intro to Chapter 1 – i.e. the first minute or so (just slide the cursor along to 1.15) – it paints a fascinating picture of the period. Then click on Chapters 2 and 3. ...

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8 days ago by Administrator

The term “Renaissance”, or rebirth, was coined by historians in the mid 19th century to describe the period in Western European history that was characterized by a resurgence of ideas, philosophies, and culture from the classical period. A golden age of cultural, intellectual and ideological movemen ...

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