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Why We Still Want to Hear the ‘Ode to Joy,’ 200 Years Later
New York Times· 12 hours agoBeethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or...
The nightingale is nature's sovereign of song
Eastern Daily Press via Yahoo News UK· 22 hours agoUnfortunately, humans being humans, it is not enough to delight at nature, we must own it, both metaphorically and literally. In 1819 when John Keats’s ...
How 2 Generations of Fabulists Charmed the Literary World
New York Times· 2 days agoIkbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. By 1959,...
'The strangest town in Wales' I stayed in, but fell in love with
North Wales Live via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoIt was a breathtaking beginning to my visit and made it obvious why the village is a constant magnet...
Soldier brothers killed on the same day in Normandy remembered - 80 years on
Manchester Evening News via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agos father, Abraham. "Harold was called up at the start of the war and Hammond volunteered in...
Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen: All About the Actress Sisters
People via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoDebbie established The Dr. Andrew Arthur Allen, Sr. Memorial Scholarship at Howard University in...
Jamal Musiala: From England youngster to Germany star
BBC News· 4 days agoJamal Musiala's exceptional performances for Germany have lit up Euro 2024, but it is bittersweet...
6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
New York Times· 4 days agoAt age 6, Bell’s mother bought him a green water gun instead of a realistic one, explaining that she feared for his safety as a Black child in Los...
A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance
New York Times· 4 days ago“The Janitor Who Paints,” a 1937 work by Palmer Hayden, who described it in a 1969 interview as a “protest painting.” The piece is featured in “The...
What I’m Reading: Tunneling to the Past
New York Times· 5 days agoIf, as the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes, the battles for control of Mosul and Helmand feel like previous couplets in a long,...
