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• Underage Dating

  
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  The elephant in the social conservative living room. From the College Conservative : The trouble with underage dating is that it presents an entirely faulty view of what interaction with the opposite gender should be about. Rather than placing emphasis on building one strong relationship with one person at a ...
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• The Allure of Regency Fashion

  
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  In France, it is known as Empire fashion. To quote author Philippa Jane Keyworth: Enlightenment ideas had led to the admiration of classical civilisations, such as Rome and Greece, and this admiration gradually filtered into fashion with women’s dresses losing the rigid, falsified outlines of the Robe ...
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• Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial

  
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  From The Wall Street Journa l : While [Leon Kass] was a medical student, he met and married his wife of nearly 52 years, the classics scholar Amy Kass. The couple went on to Boston, where he completed an internal-medicine internship and earned a biochemistry Ph.D. at Harvard. "A funny thing happened to me in ...
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• New Toys R Us Dalek Exclusives

  
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  Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum. Toys R Us are going Dalek crazy for Doctor Who ’s 50 th anniversary with their impending release of a Doctor Who ...
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• Summer Reading For Television Addicts

  
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  As the official television season winds down, I’m preparing to get my summer reading groove on with a long list of books that I’ve collected over the broadcast television year. Given that I intend to keep up with my summer TV schedule, summer movie schedule, and see a few music concerts or three (Justin ...
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• Madame Elisabeth on the Way to Execution

  
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  Madame Elisabeth of France and her companions leave the Conciergerie for the final journey to the guillotine on May 10, 1794. Madame Elisabeth was the last to die, which means she had to watch all the others decapitated before her. They each begged for her blessing before approaching the scaffold. (Via Esprit ...
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• Review – Worms: Revolution Collection

  
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  I can still remember a younger, wide-eyed and very innocent Kevin, sitting at the PC with my brother, when we first discovered the Holy Hand grenade in the original Worms (1995). I would played that game for hours on end and have very fond memories of it. I’ve barely been near the series for the well over a decade ...
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• ‘Worms: The Revolution Collection’ Review (Xbox 360)

  
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  Worms: Revolution , the latest game in the classic turn-based strategy series, is fully loaded with exciting new features and beautiful 3D graphics but still retains the classic 2D gameplay that fans love. Introducing dynamic water effects, exploding physics objects and four different class acts to choose from and ...
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• May Day

  
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  How did it become political? From History Today : With May Day, the labour movements of different countries were both inventing it as their tradition and also acquiring for themselves a very old tradition with deep roots going back into pre-Christian times. It was a tradition resonant with imagery, and one ...
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• The Disgrace of Breaking Rank

  
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  Lord, the Lord Almighty,     may those who hope in you     not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel,     may those who seek you     not be put to shame because of me.  Psalm 69:6 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, ...
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• Here be neon, laser spewing, dragons

  
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  It may have ‘Far Cry 3’ in the title, but Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon couldn’t be further removed from last year’s adventure holiday gone awry. Instead of rolling green fields and sandy beaches, Blood Dragon is set in a futuristic world coated in neon hues. By future we mean 2007 – it’s intended to be a ...
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• The Apartments of Mesdames

  
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  Now newly restored and opened to the public. From the Versailles website : Under the reign of Louis XV, the apartments of Mesdames were, after those of the king,  the most sumptuous of the Palace of Versailles. Located on the ground floor of the central section, they were occupied for twenty years, from 1769 until ...
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• Rug

  
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  Above is a rug made by Marie-Antoinette and Madame Elisabeth during their years of imprisonment. It was begun in the Tuileries Palace in 1791; they continued working on it in the Temple prison. (Via Louis XX .)
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• The Loss of Feminine Dignity

  
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  Can the upheaval of the sexual revolution be reversed? To quote Mary Woodard : The story goes something like this. For a woman, up until fairly recently, sex was a risky thing. She could ask much of a man before she consented to being his. She was the one who risked getting pregnant. The one who would have to ...
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• Hot Docs 2013 Preview Pt. 2: Before the Revolution, In the Shadow of the Sun, and Tiny: A Story About Living Small

  
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  Hot Docs 2013 kicks off tomorrow, April 25, and with documentary fans eagerly awaiting some of the best that the world of documentary filmmaking has to offer, we take a...
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• Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria

  
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  From the Mad Monarchis t : Although he may not have been what the world would consider a “successful” monarch, I have always had a soft spot for the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I. He was, undoubtedly, handicapped but probably not so disabled as most people think and he was a very kind man, a devoutly ...
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• Reformation Myths

  
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  From Eamon Duffy : The creation of the Public Record Office in 1838 made accessible thousands of documents from Tudor England, but didn’t radically alter this traditional spin on the Reformation story. The greatest Victorian historian of Tudor England was James Anthony Froude, who eagerly explored the ...
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• Origins of the Cake Myth

  
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  Marie-Antoinette Here is an informative discussion from the Tea at Trianon forum about the most enduring myth about Marie-Antoinette. To quote : According to legend, when Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, was told that her subjects had no bread to eat she replied, “Let them eat cake!” If individuals ...
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