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The American poet Robert Frost, perhaps best remembered for his evocative poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, also wrote one called “Mending Wall”. Written in 1914, it predates both the world wars of…
Following the 2008 financial crisis, public debt in Greece entered a path of uncontrollable growth, far steeper than the rise experienced in other developed economies. The main culprit here was the scale of fiscal deficits….
In the 17th century, Dutch settlers flocked to the southern half of what is now Manhattan to establish New Amsterdam, a fur-trading post that would welcome Lutherans and Catholics from Europe; Anglicans, Puritans, and Quakers…
“The good is oft interred with their bones” When Julius Caesar was assassinated it was because powerful discontents in Rome feared he was getting above himself. Caesar insisted he was not a king, according to…
It would undoubtedly be a cause of shock and alarm to see someone you believed to be dead turn up at a feast and take your chair. It certainly alarms Shakespeare’s Macbeth, when the ghost…
The irresistible rise of Europe’s “Enfant Terrible” In the summer of 1989, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in Heroes’ Square in Budapest for the ceremonial reburial of Imre Nagy along with other heroes…
