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In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...

"By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human...

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In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...

The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...

This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...

To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...