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On the Spot: Caroline Dodds Pennock

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The Road to Equality

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Caricature in the Caucasus: Molla Nasreddin

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George Logan, senator for Pennsylvania and namesake of the Logan Act, by Albert Rosenthal.

A Foreign Affair

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The Music of Time: For Whom The Bells Toll

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The Map: The Moon, 1647

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CSI: China

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A Nation of Regions

By Eleanor Parker

Divine Salomé

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From the Editor: Facts and Fictions

By Paul Lay

Kerensky in Hindsight

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Coalition Governments: Hung Out to Dry?

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Shifting Attitudes on Homosexuality

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The French Revolution's Angel of Death
The Rise of the Teutonic Knights
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All the World's a Prison
Steatite seal from the Indus valley, c.2500 BC. The script is still undeciphered.
The Greatest Civilisation Ever Forgotten?
Brutal Saviours of the Black Patch
Haile Selassie with his troops, October 1935.
Abyssinia out of the Shadows