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A collection of over 250 rare Bibles dating back to the 16th century are heading to auction in the Cotswolds later this month.

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The decline of mainstream mass media is a good example of the fractionalization of the American mindset. Back in the day, it ...

"Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" orders staff working at all National Park Service locations to remove any ...

Oddly, that wasn’t why I was half naked. And it’s not why I was surrounded by nearly 100 bodies in equal or greater states of ...

From Barnaparichay, the foundational Bengali text that standardised the alphabet, to the Bhasha Andolan, in which students died defending their language, and visual tributes to filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak ...