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The first intimation, apparently, was when three-year-old Yves told his mother that her shoes did not go with her dress. They were at home in Oran, a dull commercial town in French-ruled Algeria, where Yves’s father sold insurance and ran a chain of Cinemas, and Mrs. Mathieu-Saint-...
In his 'War and Peace,' the hero, Peter, is supposed to be the richest man in the Russian empire. During the French invasion he is taken prisoner, and dragged through much of the retreat. Cold, vermin, hunger, and every form of misery assail him, the result being a revelation to ...
hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister...
It is not going to be good for Diddy that Cassie is testifying against him, especially now that the public has learned she is pregnant. The optic will work against him and rightfully so, as what he did to her regarding beatings, rape and prostitution is horrible. He didn't have to ...
Press TV: Susan Lindauer, you talked about industrial espionage and I would like to get your idea about what the NSA did which is deemed to be illegal and that is spying on banks and credit card transactions, the European SWIFT financial transaction network being tapped on different levels. ...
When surrounded by the dark void of the willfully blind, it does not excuse those that are a spark of light their duty to shine
Kristina Nikolovska ‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts and the ApocalypticxFramework of Monk Isaija’s Colophon (1371) 1Introduction With the Ottoman Empire on the verge of collapse in the first decades of the twen-tieth century, several historians in the service of...