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February 11, 2011
Paris Was Ours
By Penelope Rowlands Visitors to Paris are often enthralled by the majestic – if, to my mind, artificial looking – landscape of the Bois de Boulogne. This 2,000-acre park in the city's southwest corner is dense, not just with vegetation but with history, too. One spot that few tourists stumble upon combines both. Set among [...]
February 7, 2011
Mailbox Monday – 2/7/2011
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February 3, 2011
Exit the Actress
By Priya Parmar Long before Nell Gwyn was the subject of gossip columns and newspaper articles, she would most likely have been one of the many young London girls who eagerly read up on health and beauty tips, helpful dating hints and celebrity fashion advice. Newspapers, journals, handbooks and medical books did a roaring trade [...]
January 28, 2011
Geography Was George Washington's Destiny
By Barnet Schecter One of the great shaping forces in the life of young George Washington was a five-million-acre tract of land (roughly the size of Massachusetts) owned by Thomas, Lord Fairfax through inheritance of a grant from the king of England. The Northern Neck Proprietary, as it was called, took up most of northern [...]
January 27, 2011
The Kiss in History
By Sheril Kirshenbaum Classicists and anthropologists have traced kissing history over millennia. The earliest and best literary evidence we have dates to around 1500 B.C. from India's Vedic Sanskrit texts. While there were no words for "kissing," there are intriguing lines such as the "young lord of the house repeatedly licks the young woman." Later, [...]
January 25, 2011
How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War
By Dominic Tierney Sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and looking toward the Capitol, we can see America's vision of how war is meant to be. Behind us is a marble Abraham Lincoln, enthroned in his temple. Straight ahead lie the Reflecting Pool and the World War II Memorial. The [...]
January 24, 2011
Mailbox Monday – 1/24/2011
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January 21, 2011
Inventing the Scientist
By Laura J. Snyder It was June 24, 1833, at the meeting of the recently-founded British Association for the Advancement of Science. William Whewell (pronounced "who-ell"), a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and former professor of Mineralogy, had just finished a speech opening the conference. When the applause died down, the members were shocked to [...]
January 19, 2011
Livia, Empress of Rome
By Matthew Dennison Mythology engulfs Livia. Elevated to the rank of goddess within a generation of her death, this woman once accounted a paragon among Roman wives has been more effectively fictionalized that the pagan gods whose pantheon she joined. Her name is no longer a byword for wifely piety. Today she is a schemer…a [...]
January 13, 2011
Let's Take a Bath!
By Cole G. "So, what are going to do when we get to Kusatsu?" It had been a long car ride already, and I was not entirely sure where we were going or what we were going to do once we got there. "We're going to take a bath." My friend Yoshi tells me. What? [...]
