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Why is it, when Islamism has damaged the image of Islam so comprehensively, that the faith seems to retain a huge popularity?

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After an exchange with Brian Vickers relating to disputed questions of dramatic collaboration I had researched with Laurie ...

For decades the so-called New York School of painters – associated chiefly with abstract expressionism – has been synonymous ...

It is said that after tobacco arrived from the New World in the late sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth took a discreet pull on a clay pipe before deciding against smoking. James I’s reaction was even ...