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Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky was murdered on Aug. 20, 1940. The month is famous for violent acts. In August 1914 Germany got World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August...
...editions of his three novels have long been out of print. The New Oxford Companion to English Literature grants him 16 lines (Pocahontas gets 20). Yet in this deep obscurity there are glimmers of revival. The Journals of Denton Welch has recently been reissued, and a biography appeared in Britain last year. Now The Stories of Denton Welch is making its first appearance in the U.S. Readers weary of conventional narrative or the current mode of minimalism can examine the unique, indelible works of a man Edith Sitwell called "that very rare being, a born writer...
...Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal Annales from 1956 to 1968, Braudel and his eclectic methods came to dominate French historiography, and substantially influenced scholars in Britain and the U.S. as well...
...beyond the intimate, granite-clad harbors with their pubs, tea gardens and lighthouses, Neolithic settlements are scattered along the luscious Gulf Stream-fed moorland, ripe for exploration. "The Isles of Scilly are one of the warmest locations in the U.K. in terms of mean temperature," says Barry Gromett of Britain's Meteorological Office...
...chief architect of Britain's "New Labour" strategy, Peter Mandelson was Tony Blair's most valued adviser. As E.U. Commissioner for Trade, he now focuses on Europe's competitiveness. He spoke last week in Brussels to Time's Leo Cendrowicz - but only until a phone call from 10 Downing Street interrupted the interview ... The European Union is facing a crisis of confidence. How can the E.U. make itself more relevant in an increasingly complex environment? It's a crisis of direction rather than a crisis of identity. It reflects two things. Firstly, people take for granted that...