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...read the news: ?Good evening, here beginneth the news. It has come to pass that...' And I did the weather forecast: ?Over the whole of Egypt, plague followed by floods, followed by frogs, and then death of all the firstborn - sorry about that Egypt.'" (Spamalot echoes this in the historian's opening narration: "...In Mercia and the two Anglias: Plague. With a 50% chance of pestilence coming out of the Northeast at 12 miles per hour.") Eventually, Idle recalls, "I became the Grand President and changed the laws and admitted women" - Germaine Greer was one of his first recruits...
...Bolgheri to meet the aristocrats who produce it. An insider's tour of Venice with Count Francesco da Mosto, who presented a BBC documentary and authored a book on his city, or an after-hours visit to the Vatican Museums, pictured, with a noted scholar like American art historian Timothy Verdon are other options. Your imagination is the only limit. tel: (39-055) 264 5033; www.italy.artviva.com
...bolster their belief that Tolkien is a literary heavyweight worthy of serious academic study. "The perception is that he was just an eccentric don who wrote fantasy," says Alfred K. Siewers, assistant professor of medieval literature at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. But Tolkien was a linguist and a historian who derived much inspiration for his novels from medieval sagas. "Hurin is a very serious book," says Wheaton College's Drout. "It doesn't have any of that lighthearted patter between the hobbits. It's going to show this man was a much more nuanced and complex and deep-thinking...
...Bolgheri to meet the aristocrats who produce it. An insider's tour of Venice with Count Francesco da Mosto, who presented a BBC documentary and authored a book on his city, or an after-hours visit to the Vatican Museums with a noted scholar like American art historian Timothy Verdon are other options. Your imagination is the only limit. tel: (39-055) 264 5033; www.italy.artviva.com
...historian of the black church and a scholar of African American women in the 19th and 20th centuries, Higginbotham became the second black woman to be tenured in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) when she arrived at Harvard in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she also sits on the faculty advisory group of the Presidential Search Committee...