The world is at an important crossroads, and the UAE itself is a crossroads of sorts within it, perfectly situated at the juncture of continents and ideas. It is an exciting place to watch whatever ...

A short article by John Garvey in Insurgent Notes #8.

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

Famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's self-portrait sold for an astonishing $55 million at auction on Thursday - setting a new ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

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Whew. Another election is over. Everyone breathe. As I write this, I have no idea how the election turned out. According to campaign signs and Facebook chat groups, our very existence depends upon the ...

The 2025 record price for Léon Antoine Lucien Couturier was for Spectators on the balcony, theater performance The 2022 record price for Léon Antoine Lucien Couturier was for birds The 2021 record ...

Resident Evil 4 Remake's existence was finally confirmed yesterday, and it turns out the new version of Leon Kennedy's iconic jacket is also totally real. While Leon chose the classic brown look, the ...

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

Dwight Yoakam has country music cred. The pioneering artist spent his first year of life in a coal company house way up in the small southeastern Kentucky holler of Betsey Layne, just across the ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity for ...