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...favorite of Napoleon and Henry VIII, real tennis is the predecessor of lawn tennis, and has its origins in games enjoyed in castles and monasteries in centuries past. It is played today by about 10,000 aficionados on some 40 courts worldwide-some of which, like those at Fontainebleau castle near Paris, are exquisite historical monuments-and enthusiasts say the game is on the up. "Real tennis is in a much healthier state than it was 15-20 years ago," says professional player Peter Paterson of the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club. As proof, he points to the recently built...
That world is full of dangers. Charles VIII of France is preparing to march on the city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though...
...Steps’ greatest benefactor, whether or not he intended to be, is Bill Clinton, whom the Steps rank first among the funniest people in American history (Dan Quayle is runner-up). Strauss even considers Clinton the second funniest person in world history behind Henry VIII. “How do you get funnier?” he asks. “[The scandals] just went...
...philosophy department—under the leadership of Department Chair Friedrich Nietzsche—“will vote on April 27 on whether or not it exists,” while students interested in history were told to contact Henry VIII, the department’s new Head Tudor...
...celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam Hart-Davis' What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us and David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Now, with the timing of a busy sous chef, Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University, launches Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen Lane; 392 pages) upon a nation again being readied for war abroad, where the legacy of Empire is everywhere...