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From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October there were videos of Palestinian journalists, who had been targeted for months, taking off their helmets. Children chattered about going back to school ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...

In the first week of November I was sitting with my mother in the tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. It was 9 a.m. on one of the most beautiful mornings I had experienced in a long time. I was used ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...