I have a review of Vincent O'Hara's Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.
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From the "subplot excised from The Road for being too disturbing and creepy" file:Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to.
We're all liberal fascists now.
In May 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in an effort to detach and seize several mountain provinces, as well as Trieste and portions of the Adriatic Coast. Since the beginning of the war, Italy had engaged in negotiations with both the Allies and the...
This is probably the best NYT correction ever:Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the number of girls younger than 18 who were allegedly invited to a villa by.
Huh.Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing.
Is this what we're heading toward here in the U.S.? In Naples last week, police stormed into a hospital based on an anonymous tip that doctors there had performed an abortion later than 24 weeks (the latest date allowed under the country's 30-year-old abortion law)....
The Senussi religious order was founded in 1837 as an antidote to what amounted to the perceived liberalization of Islam. It's founder, Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, was born in.