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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… stadium, to a crowd of twenty thousand, complete with fireworks. And, presaging celebrities’ self-promotion from …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… know, in Africa and East Asia and things like this. And the firepower was far superior. They had created these … in these Imperial places, so that they did have superior firepower. And so they were used to these quick, decisive …
Photo of William Colby

Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… unrest, Buddhist monks protested by setting themselves on fire. According to Woods, Colby along with other CIA …

Original Origins

… pdf. ]   Towards a Charter of Responsibilities  [PDF] Come Firewalk With me  [PDF] Racism, Hate and Free Speech: The …
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.

A Postcard from Hiroshima

… died soon after drinking it. With buildings destroyed and fires spreading throughout the city, she huddled in a nearby …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… elsewhere. In 1542,  Luther incited his followers “to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover … limitless “compute” any less dangerous than the heaping of firewood at the feet of heretics?  By contrast, Augustine’s …
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.

Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies

… of Acute Radiation Syndrome, suffered by plant workers and firefighters. Much of the fourth episode depicts the …