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Honduras. While tatterdemalion Christians sought refuge in the catacombs beneath Pagan Rome, the Mayas of Central America were spreading from city to city a glittering civilization. One such metropolis was Copan. Archeologists were at work there a half century ago, unearthing elaborately carved steles and sacrificial altars. Last year earthquakes...
Neither biographer has any light to shed on Milton's darkly unhappy domestic life. His first wife left him after a month, was forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters...
"The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger," a Restoration comedy by Sir John Van Brugh, will be presented tonight at 8.30 o'clock in the Leverett House dining hall by a cast of students and tutors which includes George Jackson, House janitor, and Professor Murdock, House Master.
"The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger," Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy which is to revived at Leverett House at 8.30 o'clock be next Monday is a typical product of the Restoration stage, complete with rakes, fops, confidantes, country squires, and the questionable population of the lunatic fringe of love...
"[Nürnberg] illustrates the best and the worst features of Nazi local government. Nowhere else has the winter relief campaign been carried on with livelier zeal. The poor are well taken care of, order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding...