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#1 Burton was a Victorian adventurer who traveled extensively across Europe and Asia. He was one of the greatest European swordsmen of his day, and he learned modern Greek in Marseilles.
#2 The Kasidah is a pre-Islamic classical Arab poetic form that begins with an evocation of a desert encampment. It was highly respected in Islam's early days, but saw its heyday in...
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#1 The women in this study were from families headed by lesser landed gentlemen, attorneys, doctors, clerics, merchants, and manufacturers. They were not pretentious about their aristocracy, but they did not pretend to be members of the fashionable cosmopolitan beau monde.
#2 The Georgian social stratum has not been well served by recent historical investigation. The...
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#1 Los Angeles in 1974 was a center of pop culture. The city was the birthplace of the New Wave in Hollywood, the smooth Southern California sound that ruled the album charts and radio airwaves, and many other innovations.
#2 Los Angeles had several periods of great film, television, and music production, but the early 1970s was the pinnacle of these industries. The...
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#1 Iñigo de Loyola, a devout Basque nobleman, arrived in Paris in 1528. He intended to pursue a degree at the university, but instead he became friends with six other students who vowed to travel to the Holy Land together to live where Jesus lived and work for the good of souls.
#2 The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540. It grew at a rapid pace, and by the time Ignatius...
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#1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.
#2 The young Jawaharlal...
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#1 The first signs of civilization, with all the classical symptoms, appeared around 4500 B. C. In the third millennium B., a great Semitic king named Sargon I conquered the Sumerians and formed the Sumerian-Akkadian kingdom.
#2 The first people to be called Hebrews were the descendants of Terah, who emigrated from the cosmopolitan city of Ur in Babylonia to the land...
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#1 I believe that the best way to avoid dangerous forms of tribalism is to remain resolutely individualistic. I thought that the age of nationalism would eventually give way to an era of cosmopolitanism, in which we cared about those around us rather than those with whom we shared blood.
#2 Our tendency to form groups is what makes us humans, and it is what has enabled...
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#1 The problem of technics and its relation to culture and history first emerged in the nineteenth century. The eighteenth century, with its fundamental skepticism, had posed the question of the meaning and value of culture. But after Napoleon, the machine-technics of Western Europe grew gigantic, and we had to face the question in earnest.
#2 The aim of mankind is to relieve the...
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#1 The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup in 1936. It was the result of the extremely uneven levels of development that existed in Spain by the 1930s. The war was fought between the elements that clashed in the pre-war domestic environment: urban culture and cosmopolitan lifestyles versus rural tradition, secular versus religious, authoritarianism versus liberal...