A personal reflection on Moon Over Wuyi, exploring how art transcends language and opens a window into Zhu Xi's philosophy, Chinese intellectual heritage and the enduring relationship between knowledge, nature and human
Francisco Franco did not win the Spanish Civil War through strategic brilliance but through a brutal plan to crush and eliminate his opponents, according to renowned British historian Paul Preston. In a
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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For two centuries, Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, has been remembered as a formidable matriarch—stern, frugal, and often irascible. But according to historian and descendant Laetitia de Witt, Letizia, titled Madame Mère
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The National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new tranche of declassified material that it says restores key historical records the U.S. State Department quietly deleted from an official history of the
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It was 1989 (30 years ago), and I was working at SLNS Tissa, the Naval Base in Trincomalee. I was responsible for land operations and running the Habarana–Trincomalee Naval convoys. Midshipman Ravi
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by Durga Velayudham When Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, it was not simply as Roosevelt’s successor: it was as the man left in the wake of FDR’s
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A sweeping analysis of more than 600 ancient and modern dog and wolf skulls suggests that the extraordinary variety seen in today’s dog breeds began thousands of years earlier than the Victorian
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Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s death, scientists have sequenced his DNA, uncovering startling insights into the dictator’s biology and challenging long-held assumptions about his life. The groundbreaking research, highlighted in the Channel
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by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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A remote mountainside in southern Peru known as Monte Sierpe contains roughly 5,200 enigmatic holes, long puzzling archaeologists, but new research reported by Live Science offers clues to their purpose. The holes,
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In 1906, archaeologists uncovered a remarkable wig belonging to an Egyptian woman named Merit while excavating her tomb alongside her husband, Kha, in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes. The wig, made
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Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a rare iron tool used by the Celts to perform cranial surgery more than 2,300 years ago. The hand-held implement, discovered at Łysa Góra — a Celtic
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Jung Chang, the celebrated author of Wild Swans, has warned that the growing neglect of reading will “brutalise” society, arguing that books are essential for nurturing empathy and preserving humanity. Speaking to
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J.N. Dixit, India’s former National Security Adviser and one of the country’s most seasoned diplomats, once wrote that the establishment of relations “with South Africa and then with Israel” was the most
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