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Late sculptor’s influential book is about to be republished. It’s full of esteem for the fellow ‘men of the dust’ he met as an apprentice stone carver in Cork ...

Four hundred years later, the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus wrote of "other worlds" with "different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts." In the 17th century ... Array in Hat Creek, California ...

Fifty years after the end of the war, a group of U.S. veterans spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam by bus. They once came as soldiers. Now, they are searching for forgiveness.

A 15th-century writer described an entire marzipan ... Standing in a refinery, as men in hard hats rushed around me, I read a handwritten sign: a prayer beseeching the Lord to grant them the ...

The Gunners go into the second leg of their quarter-final tie with Los Blancos 3-0 up on aggregate - but strange things ...

The Association of Concerned Christians said that the site of the Portuguese-era ruins need to be protected to prevent further damage or encroachment of the site. Christian groups have written to ...

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