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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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