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During the Second World War, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, née Soong May-ling, was not only the First Lady of China but the secre... Read and comment | Read original article

Over the course of several years, Thorpe shadowed a group of four friends from immigrant families in Denver. Two of the girls ho... Read and comment | Read original article

No poet is as closely associated with contemporary Palestinian identity as Darwish, who died in 2008, but, as this superbly tran... Read and comment | Read original article

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During the nineteen-thirties, the pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax visited Haiti. Lomax, who was just starting his career... Read and comment | Read original article

One spring day in 1952, Miss Grace Kelly, of Philadelphia, now resident in New York, went across to “a barn-like studio on... Read and comment | Read original article