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Rosenblum’s sweet saga begins in Mesoamerica, the birthplace of chocolate. Archaeologists say that the Mesoamerican Olmec people drank chocolate several millennia ago. And when Hernan Cortes and other conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica, they were fascinated by chocolate. But most Europeans took some time to fall in love with chocolate—it wasn’t until the 1580s that they started processing and eating it in large quantities...
After five millennia of persecution, Auslander seems ready to strike back...
...half millennia since it was first enacted, the story of Medea still has the power to captivate. No wonder the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club has decided to present the drama in a stunning production this weekend at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...aria. At the few moments we had hoped to participate in what is supposed to be an inclusive, student-centered service, we feel marginalized in our own minyan. Looking around, we noticed the crestfallen looks of many peers. For a people who have lived on the margins for two millennia, we hope to at least be included in our own service...
...cows and camels. They're made by Darfur children, says museum spokes-woman Hannah Boulton, "who dream of the large herds they will tend when they grow up." The objects in the main exhibition, which runs through Jan. 9, 2005, tell an important story about a place where for millennia the cultures of Central Africa and the Mediterranean have met and sometimes clashed. These items, mostly from recent excavations and on display outside Sudan for the first time, help to fill in the outlines of human history from the Paleolithic period to the end of Ottoman rule in Sudan...