Sunday, August 24, 2025

Celebrate! Ukraine's Independence Day!

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They unfurled the Ukrainian flag on Ukraine's Independence Day in Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., August 24, 2025/ By Patricia Leslie...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Book review: Mary was a 'Captive Queen'

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Jade Scott , is a specialist on Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), and the secretary of the Scottish History Society and an associate fellow ...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Still another book on Tsar Nicholas II, but this one ...

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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa professor emeritus in history at the University of California at Santa Barbara has written many books on Russian history,...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Tire art at the National Gallery of Art

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Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), It's So Hard to Be Green , 2000, rubber tires and wood,  at   the  National Gallery of Art in Washington, Apri...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

'King John' is another Shakespeare to see before you die

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Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950),  Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), as King John in 'King John' by William Shakespeare, Victoria and ...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Four great audiobooks by Dolly, Mel, Rod, and Billie Jean

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They would be  Mel Brooks ,   Rod Stewart ,  Dolly Parton , and  Billie Jean King , talking about themselves in their autobiographies  (or i...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Super-humans dazzle at Shakespeare

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7 Fingers in Duel Reality / Photo by Zemi Photography Unless you’ve lived with monkeys, you have never seen dance, acrobatics, leaps and bou...