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Coffee with Michelangelo
How would it feel to stand in the Sistine Chapel as Michelangelo painted? To watch him create his breathtaking sculptures? James Hall, an art critic, historian, and lecturer, puts us…
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Coffee with Mozart
Imagine: Mozart, near death, positioned at just the point when he can reflect on the entirety of his relatively short, but amazingly productive life. Julian Rushton, an Emeritus Professor of…
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Coffee with Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris,…
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Coffee with Plato
Around 428 BC, Plato was born into one of Athens’s most aristocratic families, and ultimately gathered around him some of the greatest minds of his age. Travel back to ancient Greece…
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Coffee with The Buddha
The earth trembles. Lions, tigers, and scorpions grow tame. Humans shower one another with kindness. Such marvels herald a wondrous event: Siddhartha Gautama, known as The Buddha. What knowledge would…
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Corinth, the Centenary
Twenty-five papers presented at the December 1996 symposium held in Athens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies excavations at ancient Corinth. The papers are…
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Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery
Corinthian Conventionalizing pottery is a fine ware produced during the 6th, 5th, and 4th centuries B.C. While Athenian workshops produced black- and red-figured vases, their Corinthian counterparts were decorating vases…
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Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents
Despite the fall of its ideological enemies—the political messianisms of communism and national socialism—democratic capitalism faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium, argues City Journal editor and South Park Conservatives…
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El arca de Noé y el diluvio universal
A passionate journey through the greatest enigmas of the past, this series seeks the answers to impossible questions that are shrouded in mystery. The explanation of the universe has fascinated…
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Fly Fishing for Bonefish, New and Revised
Dick Brown headed corporate communications for a Fortune 500 computer company before retiring to pursue his two favorite gamefish, Atlantic salmon and bonefish. He has bonefished in Bimini, Andros, the Bahamas,…
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Ghost Town
While every city understandably goes to great lengths to promote a wholesome image of itself to encourage tourism and business, there is often a far more interesting world that lies…