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Folk the world over have been journeying to sacred sites since the Bronze Age, and a new exhibition could tempt latter-day pilgrims to make the journey to Oxford, England. "Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey" runs at the Ashmolean Museum until April 2. It includes a 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 13th century casket that once held the relics of Canterbury's martyr St. Thomas Becket, as well as rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, pictured. Pilgrim...
...Pocahontas, played by talented newcomer Q’Orianka Kilcher, quickly fall in love, he ultimately leaves her to undertake a new expedition, instructing the other colonists to tell her that he has drowned. In his absence, she reluctantly marries John Rolfe (Christian Bale), eventually traveling with him to England to be received by the King and Queen and serve as an example of the peacefulness and tractability of Native Americans.Though Kilcher’s Pocahontas marries Rolfe primarily out of resignation, she is anything but weak. Her true moment of self-determination comes when Smith unexpectedly reappears in front...
...unfortunately for Mr. Blum and the rest of Europe, evil is generally quite talented at hiding itself, or at least contorting itself into something unrecognizable. It is easy to forget that the Nazis did not make their genocidal designs the main basis of their foreign policy. Nazi ministers to England, France, and Russia didn’t say, “Ok, so what we really plan to do is start a Second World War, invade your countries, and systematically kill tens of millions because of their religious and ethnic identity. Oh, and we’re going...
...research methodology and a novel blend of topics, from social psychology to psychopathology, is ideal for students who are overwhelmed by the plethora of fascinating psychology courses or indecisive about which professor or subfield they would most enjoy. Historical Study B-41. “Inventing New England: History, Memory, and the Creation of a Regional Identity...
Taught by newly appointed 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, this course should attract both native New Englanders and naïve newcomers. The course will expose the myths and falsehoods of New England while exploring 19th-century inventions in light of current research on the region’s history. The course will give locals the chance to bond with their home turf, and New England outsiders the opportunity to immerse themselves in the history of the region—including Harvard’s history—through a novel multimedia experience...