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Friday, February 21, 2025

Malcolm X uninterrupted

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Malcolm X, one of the US’s most influential black activists, was assassinated 60 years ago today. He was not yet 40. Having come from a depr...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

I will endeavour humbly

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‘I will endeavour humbly but firmly, to acquire or achieve’ the following: practise yoga; acquire good knowledge; become a member of the Bri...
Monday, February 17, 2025

A scholar of the Orient

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‘His Excellency’s brother was, accompanied by some gentlemen, to visit the Baile of Venice, whom he found very badly housed at the foot of a...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Peter the Great at war

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Peter the Great, who died all of 300 years ago today, is widely regarded as a pivotal figure in Russian history, responsible for modernising...

An unpleasant odour of musk

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‘The flesh [of Hoatzins, locally called Ciganas] has an unpleasant odour of musk combined with wet hides - a smell called by the Brazilians ...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Laws of the world organism

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‘Shouldn’t the student of modern subjects learn from geology, physics, chemistry, etc., the laws of the world organism? The perceived unity ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

My guiding darkness

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‘Perversion interests me most and is really my guiding darkness . . . I love to write of cruel deeds.’ This is Patricia Highsmith, who died ...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

The champion of reason

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‘I want to be known as the greatest champion of reason and the greatest enemy of religion.’ This is Ayn Rand, a Russian-American writer and ...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Catch some of my life

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James Gordon Farrell, who might have reached ninety today had he not died young in a storm accident, would have become one of the really gre...
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