Paolo Sarpi - Italian prelate, historian, scientist, and theologian. A patch below his ear covers a wound from an assassnation.
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Paolo Sarpi: opponent of papal power

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  • Eloise Davies
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Karabakh is no more

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  • Jacob Judah
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Contradictions at the heart of an expanding Europe

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  • Timothy Less
Georg Wilhelm Pabst in Die 3 Groschen-Oper, Germany, 1931.
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The sound of salvation: music against the Nazis

  • October 2, 2023
  • Jessica Duchen
Still from Stanley Kubrick's 1963 film Dr Strangelove.
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EI Talks… the problems and perils of nuclear strategy

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  • Engelsberg Ideas
People look at what remains of the tree at Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland.
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Death of a Sycamore

  • September 29, 2023
  • Armand D’Angour
Book plate of iron making in the 1800s.
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Cort case shows why historical truth matters

  • September 28, 2023
  • David Wootton
Giacomo Puccini at home with his dog.
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Giacomo Puccini: untormented genius

  • September 27, 2023
  • Alexandra Wilson
The Tennis Court Oath by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825).
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How to make a nation

  • September 27, 2023
  • Brian Smith
American Second World War-era poster.
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Can the US make the world safe for democracy?

  • September 26, 2023
  • Kori Schake
Adolf Hitler before launching Operation Barbarossa.
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Realism meets reality

  • September 25, 2023
  • Aaron MacLean
Aged men gathering at Fontana dell' Elefante in Piazza Duomo, Catania, Sicily.
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Italy’s strangely seductive culture of mediocrity

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  • Tobias Jones

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