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The Pope delivered an emotional apology to Orthodox Christians yesterday for the Catholic plundering of Constantinople eight centuries ago, saying it caused him "pain and disgust". He made his comments during a visit to the Vatican by Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the head of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians. The... Continue Reading →
The Christian hagiographies will be "covered" as they said. And what are the European & American officials doing? Turning a blind eye as they did back in 1453 when their help was asked. A UNESCO monument and a symbol for the christian world, turned into a mosque... "Το διάταγμα Ερντογάν για τη μετατροπή της Αγιά-Σοφιάς... Continue Reading →
Our conversations are centering more and more on the topic of racial justice, and families and educators are trying to help their children understand current events. In many cases, this task requires soul-searching about how little we had been talking to children about race and racial justice previously. To help in this process, we have compiled a... Continue Reading →
The fiction in this week’s issue, “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” is a series of very short pieces by Franz Kafka that will appear this fall in the New Directions book “The Lost Writings.” Can you tell us a bit about how they came into your hands? barbara epler: The story of... Continue Reading →
Αξίζεις μια αγάπη που να σε αγαπά ξεχτένιστη, με τα πάντα -και τις αιτίες που σε σηκώνουν βιαστικά,με τα πάντα -και τα δαιμόνια που δε σε αφήνουν να κοιμηθείς.Αξίζεις μια αγάπη που να σε κάνει να νιώθεις σίγουρη,που να μπορεί να καταναλώσει όλο τον κόσμο αν περπατάει χέρι με χέρι με σένα,που να νιώθει πως... Continue Reading →
An increasingly powerful state was made possible by the creation of archival networks. Archives and Information in the Early Modern World makes a valuable addition to the growing literature on this topic. Sixteen scholars have contributed to this volume, which concentrates on early modern Europe, but includes chapters on the Spanish Empire and ‘the East Asian... Continue Reading →
The Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) and UNESCO signed an innovative Futures Literacy Partnership Agreement, to develop Futures Literacy at PMU and in the Gulf region. This marks the launch of an ambitious joint effort to advance Futures Literacy (FL) at local, regional and global levels. Futures Literacy is a critical competency for the... Continue Reading →
1884, July 04 In a ceremony held in Paris on July 4, 1884, the completed Statue of Liberty is formally presented to the U.S. ambassador as a commemoration of the friendship between France and the United States. The idea for the statue was born in 1865, when the French historian and abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye proposed a... Continue Reading →
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