The new Netflix series “Transatlantic” dramatises the short but intense period of Fry’s life when he helped found the Emergency Rescue Committee and enabled hundreds of illustrious writers, artists and refugees to flee ...
“We do not wish to save our lives. None of us will come out of this alive. We want to save the honour of mankind.” These words attributed to Arie ...
At first glance, it’s tempting to see former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as the big ideas president. He drew clear moral lines between democracy and authoritarian communism, prompting the downfall ...
Yabba dabba doo! Snippets of hair believed to have belonged to Bronze Age shamans on the Spanish island of Menorca were found to have traces of psychoactive alkaloids, offering the ...
As far-right leader Giorgia Meloni swept to victory in Italy’s election last September, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts marched on Rome, many observers wondered if the country ...
Kim Seong-ju was 15 when she was sent away from her home in Korea to Nagoya, Japan, to work in a factory for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. At the factory, she ...
Pundits warn that civil war may be coming to Israel. In fact, civil war has already arrived. In just the first 10 weeks of this year, bloody violence in all ...
Ever since, biographers have sought to explain the causes of the German composer’s death at the age of 56, his progressive hearing loss and his struggles with chronic illness. An ...
“Russia’s nature as an imperial power is incontrovertible,” Artem Shaipov and Yuliia Shaipova write. “So why has this fundamental, foundational fact about Russia been all but ignored in the West ...
The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history. The former USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship, has been ...
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