Fake news has increasingly begun to merge with factual news reporting, leaving readers struggling to tell the difference from fact…
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A country of approximately 22,000,000 thrown into two-hundred-year isolation. What sounds like a far-flung movie…
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“An artist should suffer.” So said performance artist Marina Abramović in her 2011 piece titled…
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Sport is big business, and winning or losing is often said to be a matter…
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What does it take for one to become an emperor? For some it seems the…
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It is impossible to conceive of the Italian Renaissance without the Medici. A fabulously wealthy…
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When, in 1973, permission was granted for King Casimir IV Jagiellon’s burial coffin to be…
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The summer of 2000 was a tough time for Delhi, as the city and its…
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The spread of religion through Asian history is relatively well understood, as the teachings of…
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Scorpion (1985), The Human Factor (1978) and Kittler, and the Media (2013) are all novels…
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Arkle, Dawn Run, Sea the Stars, Zarkava: these names sound like the titles of far-off…
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It’s May 1970. Jimi Hendrix plays a transcendental concert in Berkeley Community Theatre with the…
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Religion is at the heart of the story of the human race. People devote themselves…
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A new weapon was discovered in 1942: napalm. This indiscriminate and deadly fire has been…
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“I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and others”, stated King Ludwig II…