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> Major Michael Parker, 33, an antiques dealer and reserve officer, who says lightly: "I like burning things. I am a pyromaniac." Parker is the man directly in charge of what he says will be "the largest firework display in 250 years," a figure that roughly but deliberately recalls the pyrotechnic...
The strictness bemuses those who recall that the Church of England was created because Henry VIII, against papal orders, wanted to shed Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did...
*Anne Boleyn was beheaded; Jane Seymour died after childbirth; the Anne of Cleves marriage was annulled; Catherine Howard was beheaded; and Catherine Parr outlived Henry.
Forget Mr. Blackwell's "worst dressed" lists. Professors of history and politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington have taken a vote and come up with the "ten most villainous people in history," a collection of rotters guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes...
Coles and 20 other scholars and artists learned last week that the giveaway was not a joke but a new talent search begun by Chicago's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Its aim: finding creative people and helping them to make "discoveries or other significant contributions to...