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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A faded image of a body, splashes of blood. A scrap of cloth that may attest both Passion and Resurrection. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this northwestern Italian city, renowned for its auto industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

So reads the Feb. 2, 1659, entry in the diary of Jan van Riebeeck, leader of the Dutch East India Co.'s settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. His words were written just five years after European vines were first planted at the southernmost tip of Africa. By the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Wine Country | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

If anything can incontrovertibly justify The Boston Cecilia's choice, it might be the performance. A fifty-four person chorus, five soloists (including an extremely crisp Narrator) and an orchestra using period instruments performed in one of Boston's more sublime National Historic Landmarks, Jordan Hall (where the floor is...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Art and Anti-Semitism | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

In terms of human rights Cahill pointed to what he called historic oppression of the Catholic Irish majority by the Protestant minority and the British government. Specifically, he pointed to the Orange Order, a Protestant loyalist group which marches each Easter to commemorate along-ago victory over the Catholics, as...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Irish Activist Expresses His Optimism for Peace | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

A passionate believer in the navy's historic strategic role, he immediately committed the Royal Naval Division to an intervention in the Flanders campaign in 1914. Frustrated by the stalemate in Belgium and France that followed, he initiated the Allies' only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winston Churchill | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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