Be happy: the health and wealth gospel
WHEN SHE CAME to church it was a big event. She wore her nicest dress and a grand Sunday hat. But then she wouldn't appear again for months. Every time ...(keep on reading)
What about Joan? A fierce woman in combat? Medieval gender bender? Sandra Miesel has the inside scoop on Joan of Arc
JOAN OF ARC is the one medieval figure everybody knows. But what they acknowledge varies wildly. To Shakespeare, Joan was a witch; to Shaw, a proto-Protestant; ...(keep on reading)
Mommy Dearest - "I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother" - Book Review
I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother, by Allison Pearson (Knopf, 352 pp., $23) The central question of this much-talked-about ...(keep on reading)
Round Table was just a fancy-dress prop
AN ANCIENT relic long held to be King Arthur's Round Table may have been no more than the centrepiece for Arthurian fancy dress balls held centuries ...(keep on reading)
19th century AD
[T]he young people are eating us up,--there is nothing in America but the young people. The country is made for the rising generation.... Longfellow ...(keep on reading)
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