How will the next leader of the Church of England be picked?
LONDON - The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned over an abuse cover-up scandal on Tuesday, marking an ...
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Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93
LONDON (AP) — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died aged 93. Auerbach’s gallery, Frankie Rossi Art Projects, ...
How a Soviet swamp rat scheme for Azerbaijan went horribly wrong
A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...
Italian Police Bust a $215 Million European Art Forgery Network
38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell fake works attributed to Banksy, ...
Ancient Greece’s cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought – new research
Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...
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The Boston Bierhaus That Burned Down. Twice.
On June 24, Boston fire crews rushed over to Jacob Wirth, a restaurant on Stuart Street about a block from the Common. News ...
JM Coetzee: Is this the greatest European poet of the 20th Century?
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...
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Carlos the Jackal: The World’s Most Wanted Revolutionary—Terror, Espionage, and the Cold War's Greatest Villain
Born in 1949 in Venezuela, Carlos was raised in a family with a strong political background. His father, a Marxist, instilled in him a radical perspective from a young age. By his teenage years, ...
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Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...
Comcast's Earnings Shockers: Ignore The Hype, There Was More Important News
Comcast's potential spinoff of its linear cable networks is unlikely to have a significant impact. Click here to read an analysis of CMCSA stock now.
Democracy, climate change and migration – why Poland might be ‘Europe’s fulcrum country’
The latest Independent Social Research Foundation conference heard how refugees have died after becoming trapped at the border between Poland and Belarus ...