Category: history
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Babel
Babel begins in a house filled with corpses, and there’s about to be one more. Cholera is sweeping through Canton and Robin Swift is slowly dying on the floor of his room after watching his mother’s last breaths. Just as he’s about to follow her, there’s a glint of silver.…
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Black Klansman
BlackKlansman, the novel has been made into blackKKKlansman the award-winning movie. Said movie recently showed up on Netflix and the second I watched it I knew I needed to read this book. So, I instantly got a copy and binged the whole thing in just three days. For those of…
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Alexandria
Alexandria stands as a place apart. A major city, it belonged to the Romans and has changed hands through the centuries; yet one thing remained constant through all of that: it maintained its own unique identity, no matter who claimed it as their own. Still today it is separate from…
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How to be a Renaissance Woman
Everyone has those days where Venus is more elusive than others. It’s just a hazard of being alive, and a woman. The pursuit of beauty not only binds us together now but connects us to all the women of the past. As Jill Burke argues in her book How to…
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