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An hour or so through the placid West Country from London, Bath in its heyday was the unofficial second capital of England, where royalty, bucks and dandies gambled, flirted and soaked in the mildly radioactive waters that gave the town its name. The springs (120° F) still gush a quarter...
THE ROMANS never made it to Persia. Twenty centuries later, the Germans couldn't break through either. But by 1953, American agents managed to move directly to the heart of Iranian politics, placing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne his father had fled in 1941. And once he disappeared...
Tributsch acknowledges that his theory is based largely on old or inexact observations. The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded fogs, strange clouds and eerie lights as precursors of earthquakes. These atmospheric phenomena, suggests Tributsch, may have been of an electrical nature. Indeed, a 1976 U.S. Geological Survey conference on animal...
"Friends, Romans, countrymen.
For accuracy's sake, it should be pointed out that in the article "The Quandary of the Cults" [Dec. 18], the photo captioned "Founder L. Ron Hubbard" of the Church of Scientology was not Mr. Hubbard at all. While the writer did have the sense to make a rational...