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5 days ago · Manalive (RR) Pastures of Heaven. Les Miserables. The Faerie Queen. Paradise Lost. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Canterbury Tales. Mansfield Park. Sense and Sensibility (RR) Kristin Lavransdatter (RR) C.S. Lewis’ Experiment in Criticism (RR) The Play’s the Thing (by Close Reads/The Circe Institute) Everything Sad is ...
4 days ago · The place of the village idiot as the touchstone for judging a society is central to the plot of two works of literature. Joseph Pearce, April 12, 2023. It’s over 20 years since Hillary Clinton told us that it takes a village to raise a child, and over 10 years since Rick Santorum responded with his riposte that it takes a family. These two ...
5 days ago · The Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure in England. The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. [1] Written in ballad form, the work has been described as one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English ...
3 days ago · List of fictional Cambridge colleges. Fictional colleges are perennially popular in modern novels, allowing the author much greater licence when describing the more intimate activities of a Cambridge college and a way of placing events that might not be permitted by actual Cambridge geography. Below is a list of some of the fictional colleges ...
1 day ago · Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely ...
3 days ago · SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — What was supposed to be the easy half of Noah Lyles’ historic Olympic sprint double isn’t looking quite so easy anymore. Newly crowned the Fastest Man Alive after ...
3 days ago · And when he began to focus on just speed events, it all swelled at the perfect moment. Sam Watson set a world record Tuesday with a 4.75-second climb at the Olympics. On Thursday, he’ll go for ...
