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Creole House Museum serves as time capsule of French Settlement's past
To walk into the Creole House Museum in French Settlement is to enter into a time capsule that reflects the long history of ...
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A New Golden Age of Espionage TV Shows?
In the wake of the success of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, Chris Connor looks forward to a new golden age of TV spy shows… ...
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Two months on, post-Olympic blues grip Paris
Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...
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Amsterdam bans protests for 3 days following violent attacks on Israeli soccer fans
Amsterdam has banned demonstrations for three days after Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in the city overnight, which Dutch authorities condemned Friday as antisemitic.
Book Review: ‘Her Lotus Year,’ by Paul French
As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting ...
The truth about Wallis Simpson’s lewd ‘scandals’ in the Far East
With Her Lotus Year, Paul French depicts a glitzy period the future Duchess of Windsor spent in China – but she’s too elusive ...
Trump rebuilds Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ states with red bricks. Especially Pennsylvania
Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania this week, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential ...
The key differences between The Day of the Jackal show and the 1973 film
Sky has remade The Day of the Jackal for TV, and the Eddie Redmayne series tweaks the book and 1973 Edward Fox film to appeal to modern audiences.
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‘Life was good, very good, almost too good’ – Wallis Simpson’s year in China
Few women have had more written about them, mostly of a critical, salacious nature, than Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up his crown. Much of the gossip has fed ...