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Caravaggio was kept busy by other commissions as well as by the demands of the Mattei family during the first three years of the century...

Ever since Obama emerged as a serious contender for the presidency, he has had to contend with racially inflected insinuations question...

Was the American girl, the star of the trial, guilty as charged or culpable in some other way? Amanda’s behavior looked suspicious, even...

Bismarck, the living human being; Bismarck, the genius-statesman: Bismarck the Iron Chancellor as icon, make up a complex legacy. Patrio...

The Queens (N.Y.) Supreme Courthouse was built in 1960 and is an example of the civic architecture of the period, whose pointless uglines...

Stieg Larson was a generous man, loyal, warmhearted, and fundamentally kind. But he could also be completely the opposite. Whenever som...

“It may even be that the final judgment on his work may come to the notion that what he failed to do was tragic, but what he accomplished ...