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Sidney Reilly | The Most Legendary Secret Agent in History + Trotsky vs. Stalin - The Struggle for Lenin's Succession (1924-1929)

The fact that Sidney Reilly was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond tells us a lot about the life that Reilly lived.

Self-portrait by acclaimed Mexican painter sells for $55 million at auction, setting a record for female artists

Famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's self-portrait sold for an astonishing $55 million at auction on Thursday - setting a new ...
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The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...
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Chicago Cubs history unpacked, November 19 — Belle, Sosa, McGwire

1873 – William Magear Tweed (“ Boss Tweed ”) of Tammany Hall (NYC) is convicted of defrauding the city of $6 million and ...

Frida Kahlo sets the record for the most expensive work by a female artist’: Five things you should know about her

This week, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's 1940 canvas El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million at Sotheby’s -- the highest by ...