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power of ungrateful

wonder what could happen when two people under the influence get together. And everything was going so well! The text is a rip-off of the popular meme translated into French and placed within the new context. ” I don’t often..” … Continue reading

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assault on english

…The deadening influence that official jargon can exert upon thought was a topic that preoccupied George Orwell. … In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he recounted dramatically how a government in control of all media of communication can and will so degrade … Continue reading

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witch hunts: divine folly

Witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for the better part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? It seems inconceivable, and yet, though the numbers have often been exaggerated, the facts themselves are not in doubt. The European … Continue reading

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feeling of a statue

Iconic photograph from Bruce Davidson in Britain in 1960. It eye was caught by scenes of a newer Britain, the Britain of the welfare state and the vanishing empire, of peace marchers, and teddy boys and Room at the Top. … Continue reading

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dark ages: maybe not that dark after all

It seems ironic that the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment should be the periods associated with the persecution of witches, a kind of phenomenon, a systematic cult that was invented out of thin air. it was the persecution of women, … Continue reading

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the searchers: quest for the gold of ophir

The Bible beckons excitedly to many new sites for archaeological exploration in the Holy Land and all of the ancient Near East. We would still like to know more about the Philistines, who loom so large in the Bible and … Continue reading

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women and what men really want

One argument that will never be satisfactorily resolved concerns the rival claims of nature and nurture as cause for villainy. Are villains, like poets, born and not made? Nature and nurture must both have a part to play, and there … Continue reading

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henry VIII: not a good year of the woman

Henry VIII, along with almost every male in the sixteenth-century, regarded women a being “weak, frail, impatient, feeble, and foolish” and “void of the spirit of council of regimen.” He was consequently pleased by his wife’s actual remarks, and announced … Continue reading

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catherine parr: avoiding the tower

There is a story about Henry and his last queen, Catherine Parr, told by the martyrologist John Foxe, which is so extraordinary that it hs often been dismissed as malicious legend, if only because it presents the King as ether … Continue reading

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gibeon: lucky strike

The Bible as history. As a document of historical fact, it has never been contradicted by the evidence to this point… The Pool of Gibeon became, quite reasonably, a prize of the archaeologist’s seeking; something akin to the white tiger … Continue reading

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