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Porzellan is crowded with a busy lunchtime crush of convivial Viennese spilling out of the bright, high-ceilinged room on to tables outside, all chiffon summer dresses and open linen shirts. Inside, amid the hum, I spot Tim Snyder looking…

Author and columnist Randor Guy. File | Photo Credit: K.V. SRINIVASAN Veteran film historian, columnist and writer Madabhushi Rangadorai, popularly known by his pen name, Randor Guy, died in Chennai on Sunday (April 23) night, after a…

By Online Desk British writer, historian and biographer Patrick French died in London after battling cancer for four years, said his family. He was 56. Writer and historian William Dalrymple expressed his sadness…

By Online Desk Mike Davis, the southern California writer, described by some as a 'delusional lefty', branded, 'prophet of doom' has died on October 25. The 60s man bowed out after a long struggle with esophageal…

Britain industrialised first, and several other nations in Western Europe and North America followed soon thereafter, says Jared Rubin Britain industrialised first, and several other nations in Western Europe and North America followed…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlbdR9CLjKgNEW YORK (AP) — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him…

Historian David McCullough, shown here in 2013, has died at 89. He wrote extensively and compellingly about…

During a weeklong trip to Canada, Pope Francis visited a former residential school for Indigenous children in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25, 2022. The Ermineskin Residential School operated between 1895 and 1975 in Cree Country, the…

Early in 2022, the French legislature greenlighted the cultivation of cannabis inside French territory to supply the nation’s ongoing pilot program in medical marijuana. The clinical trials were launched in March 2021 with cannabis…

For Prince fans around the world, the recent discovery of the singer speaking out at age 11 on behalf of striking Minneapolis public schoolteachers is an exciting piece of Prince pop cultural iconography. Like his vault of unreleased…