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Why the discovery of Cleopatra's tomb would rewrite history
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoFrom the trinkets of the tomb to the mummy of the queen herself, the discovery of Cleopatra’s...
Cher determination: Inside the skill, scandal and survival of pop’s most immortal star
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoIN FOCUS: As the ‘Believe’ singer re-releases two of her least celebrated electro-pop albums, Helen...
Dame Judi Dench's Shakespearian Secrets and More of the Very Best Books Coming Out in April
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe Best Books to Read This April This month, pile your nightstand with a peek inside an iconic...
From Amelia Earhart to Miuccia Prada, a new book collects history's 'left-handed women'
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoLike one in 10 people, Judith Thurman writes with her left hand. This “used to be considered a malign aberration,” she points out in the introduction to her new essay collection; even when she ...
'The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams': Stacy Schiff bio makes dusty history thrilling again
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoThe American Revolution wasn’t a moment in time so much as a gradual drip, drip, drip, a series of events, grievances, provocations and confrontations that unspooled over a period of several ...
America's Forgotten Revolutionary Hero Finally Gets His Due
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoStacy Schiff on the front steps of the New York Public Library, on Oct. 14, 2022. Credit - Adam Pape...
The 50 best books of 2023 ranked
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOur regular book reviewers – as well as writing specialist guides to 2023’s best history, fiction and other genres – have each put forward their own...
A plague on both their houses? Politicos grapple with 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoWilliam Shakespeare’s works are not short of insight on the perils of power and “vaulting ambition”....
Charles Barkley ‘Got a Contact High’ From Nirvana and Other Secrets of His ‘SNL’ Debut
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis exclusive excerpt from the biography Barkley by Timothy Bella recounts the NBA star's raucous...
Who cares what Napoleon gets wrong? Facts are the enemy of great art
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoThe Frogs have been getting uppity over Joaquin Phoenix’s depiction of Napoleon, in Ridley Scott’s...