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Is this a voyage too far?

Is this a voyage too far?

Joyce Glasser reviews The Lost City of Z (March 24, 2017), Cert. PG, 90 min. From Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) to H Rider Hagga ...
Welcome to the Upper House

Welcome to the Upper House

The House of Lords has been in the news recently as it has inflicted a second defeat on the government’s article 50 bill. History of the House The Lords started off as an advisory council to the king. ...
Beware the Ides of March

Beware the Ides of March

Thanks to Shakespeare the stark warning of the soothsayer, “Beware the ides of March,” means that people always remember March 15 and it is forever imbued with a sense of foreboding. The I ...