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Thanks to recent research, an increasing amount is known about Catharism. It began to spread through southern France and northern Italy in the 11th century; as early as 1022 in Orléans, 13 Cathari (ten of them canons of the church) were condemned to the stake. The heresy was...
The small island of Equatoria floats like a banana peel on the blue ocean swell of the Caribbean. The democratic Equatori-ans are engaged in their annual ritual revolution, and two local swindlers named Lopez and Pardo dread the rising "reform" dictator. Lopez mulcts tourists and gets a kickback from...
Standing on a platform alongside the 13th century cathedral of Bourges, the towering, droop-shouldered figure called out the single word, "Algeria!" Then he paused and peered down at the hundreds gathered in the square before him. The crowd had come to cheer Charles de Gaulle's progress on...
Usually the tempo of violence increases just before a U.N. session, as the Algeri ans try to show how powerful they still are and the French try to show how effectively they are ''pacifying" the rebels. In the Massif of Bou Zegza, 40 miles southeast of Algiers, last...
"Marie Louise Antoinette Hungerford. Downvill. Entrée le 15 Janvier 1857. Agée de 13 ans."