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(because those books don’t need more attention, and if they are actually good, I will get to them eventually – as I did withSpinsterandThe Empathy Exams, several years after they were published). I have made separate lists for fiction, short stories, kids books, and nonfiction. My ...
thesewere conceived to allow the authorities simultaneously to isolate and to controlnon-Catholic individuals. A well-known example of such spaces is thecasa deicatecumeni, established in imitation of similar institutions disseminated aroundthe Ottoman Empire, where, when necessary, conversion processes ...
The history books say Turkish baths we experience today are derived from Roman baths. Arriving in these lands during the 7thcentury, the practice in those days was seen as cleaning the body meant cleaning the soul. So naturally, the Turkish hamam became a bathing ritual in its own right, an...
Our Berat wine adventure began about 25 minutes outside of Berat at Çobo Winery, which is mentioned in many a guide books discussing Berat. Side note, “Çobo” is pronounced nothing like it looks. Çobo Winery. We arrived at Çobo and drove up what appeared to be a residential dri...
The first customer she encountered wanted a needle and seat for his Holley. She didn’t know what a Holley was, so she went looking for a needle and thread set for a seat cushion. “Did she come home in tears?” the Old Man was asked. She knew there would be books to tell her ...
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Release) Mark Taylor, author of the wildly popular book “The Trump Prophecies,” correctly predicted, early on, a victory by Donald Trump to win the White House. Taylor is a retired firefighter that has become an un