A Harvard student expelled for cross-dressing in the early 1600s, 17th-century citizens fined for same-sex cohabitation, touring female impersonators of the nineteenth century, early 20th-century women who passed as men and married other women . . .Surprising, fun, and magnificently...

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The Chapters are: VOLUME I: BEGINNINGS: The Pelasgian Creation Myth; The Homeric and Orphic Creation Myths; The Olympian Creation Myth; Two Philosophical Creation Myths; The Five Ages of Man; The Castration of Uranus; The Dethronement of Cronus; The...

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“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such...

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After the last of Rome's legions left Britannia to the mercy of the invading barbarian hordes and before the age of chivalry, when knighthood was in flower and troubadours sang of courtly...

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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era...

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Juli 1897. Ingenjör Andrées expedition ger sig iväg i en vätgasballong med riktning Nordpolen. En djärv idé, chanslös från start. Snart befinner sig tre män, med minimala kunskaper om arktiska förhållanden, mitt i en vit mardröm.I trettiotre år undrar en kvinna vart hennes fästman tog vägen. År 1930 hittas...

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By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life....

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Numbering more than 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority in India, yet they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, India's Muslims are often targets of violence and collective acts of murder.While the quality of...

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