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...been running in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean since the late 16th century. They seized foreign ships and enslaved the crews. If you paid them tribute in advance, they would leave you alone. Otherwise, you would have to ransom captives on an ad hoc basis. Their most famous prisoner was Miguel de Cervantes, who fictionalized his ordeal in Don Quixote. Roman Catholic religious orders (Trinitarians, Order of Mercy) devoted themselves to the business of ransoming Christian captives...
...Palau is certainly a worthy effort and just part of Valencia's quest, one that's even bolder than Bilbao's famous gamble. The opera house is the final piece of the immensely popular City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of beautifully integrated white buildings, most designed by Calatrava, that includes a planetarium with IMAX cinema and laser dome, a science museum, a botanical garden and Europe's biggest marine park. "An art museum draws a fairly narrow audience, while the City of Arts and Sciences appeals to a much wider range of people," says Julio...
...Prime Minister Levi Eshkol offered to return almost all the territories to the Arabs in exchange for recognition and a promise to negotiate peace. But opposition from Israeli hard-liners, including Menachem Begin, then a Cabinet minister, crippled Eshkol's proposals. Meanwhile, the Arab states responded thunderously with their famous ''three noes'' -- no recognition of Israel, no negotiation, no peace. Twenty-one years later, Israel still holds the territories, but no longer so reluctantly. Twenty-one years is long enough to allow a generation of Palestinians to grow to adulthood knowing only, and hating, the occupation. But in a land...
...comics finally got some respect on the walls of famous museums. That must be a good thing... right...
...Jules Feiffer became famous in the '50s for what many called the first adult comic strip, Sick Sick Sick (later just Feiffer), which ran in The Village Voice and other papers. But Feiffer knew the superhero comics so well because he loves them as a kid and he wanted to be an artist; he studied these strips from the wrist up. In his late teens he assisted Will Eisner in drawing The Spirit. Here's his evocative iconography of the comics hero...