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Met an interesting character. Timon of Syracuse lived on Delos in the 2nd century BC and was a moneylender. The very sacred island on which Apollo was born proved quite conducive to the growth of commerce and the financial sector. Among Timon's borrowers, we know, was the federation
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During the years of Austrian and French rule in Venice, many canals were filled in to ease pedestrian traffic through the city. It is now hard to imagine how greatly this altered the look of the place. But the drained and covered canals are now part of its history
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The painting is by the seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Felice Ficherelli. It made such an impression on Vermeer that he copied it
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Someone Has Dumped a Pile in the Museum Again. Nicola Turner's Anatomy of Melancholy at the Royal Academy of Arts. The artist reflects on people not as individuals but as mobile systems made up of hordes of microorganisms and bacteria, in constant interaction and exchange with other organisms
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Letter from Alexander Herzen to Alexander II, an Emperor Who Did Not Have to Cross a Square Drenched in Blood to Mount the Throne. Simple, clear and kind words. A cherished appeal. The request of a free Russian to grant the Russian people freedom, land and the spoken word. Much
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"Travel? What next? I hate tourism, the industry of shipping people who would be better off at home to places that would be better off without them." Captain Haddock really is my favourite comic-book hero of all time. He lives in his castle of white stone, recalls
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