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Taking up the scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting...
The document itself is a rambling, 600-page manuscript, written by the 10th century Moslem theologian, Abd-al-Jabbar. About 140 pages of his text consist of an Arabic translation of a much older Syriac account of Nazarene beliefs, probably dating from the 5th century and presumably written by members...
Under the terms of the agreement, Baghdad promises to observe "two nationalisms in Iraq, Arab and Kurdish," decentralize government down to a local level and thus guarantee limited Kurdish autonomy, recognize the Kurdish language "on equal terms with Arabic" in Kurdish areas, guarantee proportional representation of Kurds (10% to 15...
"Our Place on High." After the Civil War, such vaunted idealism fell into disfavor. In his last decades, Church painted little, concentrated instead on making an artistic "Center of the World" out of his Hudson River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place...
Indeed, in its 22 years the New York City Opera has established itself as the nation's leading champion of contemporary opera. Of the 116 productions it has staged over the years, 60 have been 20th century works, including 26 U.S. and world premieres. Quite a record for a...