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		<title>The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elinor Teele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is so great a prize, it makes it harder to follow the runner.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crossing Styx</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jascha Kessler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television is real to a later conviction that “nothing is real.” In other words, the world has become crowded, permeated and possessed by the fictive.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mike Carey: Novelist and Comic Writer</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/mike-carey-novelist-and-comic-writer/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Dueben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA["People too content with their lot make lousy protagonists. (laughs) There has to be a source of drama, a source of conflict. You can start with a character that’s out of tune with his time or his life or some aspect of his life. And then if it’s a Hollywood movie with a Hollywood happy ending it’s the story of redemption, the story of how you get from that discontent position to your own perfect space. The first <em>Back to the Future</em> movie is kind of archetypal in that respect. You start by showing all the things that are crappy about the kid’s life and then he comes back to this sort of paradise at the end. My characters don’t tend to find paradise, but they do sometimes find themselves."]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bridges]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south of the Alban hills, a few miles inland from the sea. The town is unlovely but the new Pomezia museum contains some of the most beautiful terracotta statues of women that I know, dating from several centuries before Christ. It also contains exhibits that trace the story of Aeneas in Italy back to at least the eighth century B.C. You may well leave Pomezia convinced that someone, whose name may have been Aeneas, landed on the nearby coast a millennium or so before Christ–and married the daughter of the king of the local Latins–and had a descendant named Romulus. Not just Virgil but Dionysius gives a detailed account of all this.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vikram Johri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in its evocation of the last days of the Ottoman dynasty. Here, however, the territory is dangerously personal.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Almost a Miracle by John Ferling</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/almost-a-miracle-by-john-ferling/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett F. Woods]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were frequent and while many men soldiered, many of these same soldiers died. Still others, the least fortunate in some respects came home from the wars, but not in one piece, physically or mentally. Nor were those who bore arms alone in experiencing the terrors of war. Civilians who dwelled on the exposed frontier in wartime lived with the constant fear of a potential surprise attack, and virtually every citizen, in every generation, and in every colony paid war taxes, tolerated wartime scarcities, endured war-induced inflation, and struggled through postwar economic busts.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/images-from-how-to-photograph-an-atomic-bomb/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Kuran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground, in the ocean or in outer space.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/fire-in-the-blood-by-irene-nemirovsky/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Braun Kessler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that only an exquisite sensibility like Némirovsky’s commands, revealing shockers — illicit passion, intense jealousy, illegitimate offspring, and … murder! Such untold events have remained long hidden, if gossiped over by villagers, vicious events these country people chose never to acknowledge.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hanna Rosin Discusses God&#8217;s Harvard</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/hanna-rosin-discusses-gods-harvard/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and Nietzsche for the first time. They may be alarmed, but they also may find those writers intoxicating."]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/thunder-bay-by-william-kent-krueger/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The novel is set in the lake country of northern Minnesota and the wilds of bordering Ontario. Former sheriff Cork O’Connor has decided to take life easy with his wife and teenage daughter. He’ll fill in the slack times with a little private investigator action or at least that’s what he thinks. The short-lived halcyon period is broken when Objibwe medicine man Henry Meloux (as in “mellow”) asks Cork to find his son that he fathered more than a half-century ago in the Canadian boreal forest wild lands.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Greatest Battle:  Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/the-greatest-battle-stalin-hitler-and-the-desperate-struggle-for-moscow-that-changed-the-course-of-world-war-ii-by-andrew-nagorski/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bridges]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies.  In this battle seven million men took part, and of these 2.5 million were killed, taken prisoner, wounded, or went missing.  The invading Nazi army numbered about three million, which as Nagorski might usefully have mentioned was six times larger than Russia’s last previous major invader, Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Solution to History</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/the-solution-to-history/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jem Bloomfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc of Auneford, Mathew Shardlake, and many others. From a brief survey of the genre, it’s a wonder that anyone noticed when the Black Death took hold, as the inhabitants of Britain had apparently been offing each other in industrial numbers right through the medieval era.]]></description>
		
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		<title>I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/ill-sleep-when-im-dead-the-dirty-life-and-times-of-warren-zevon-by-crystal-zevon/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Loftus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<em>I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead</em> is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very little biographical narrative per se; instead, the book compiles a massive array of anecdotes, memories, and opinions from dozens upon dozens of the people who knew him, from engineers, girlfriends, and backing musicians to a fairly astounding variety of celebrities who spent time with Zevon.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/michael-behe-on-the-edge-of-evolution/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most positive evolution must be nonrandom — guided somehow — and I argue that result fits well with the fine-tuning of the universe discovered by physics."]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk</title>
		<link>https://calitreview.com/william-gibson-the-father-of-cyberpunk/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Dueben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much in the way of writing a novel. My unconscious is what I’m after and my unconscious is not very reliable. It doesn’t pay taxes and it won’t turn up every day to sit in the chair and type for me. I have to turn up and sit in the chair every day and type and occasionally it does turn up."]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Amazing Things You Need To Know About 3D Modeling With Maya</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[3D Modeling With Maya what you need to know. Maya by Autodesk is one of the most widely used 3D development programs. It is frequently utilized in media and entertainment and has several other uses. Modeling (the production of 3D characters, objects, and environments) is one of the most important aspects of a 3D workflow, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vikram Johri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were dyslexics, Wolf ponders whether we can explain the "preponderance of creativity and 'thinking outside the box' in many people with dyslexia?" Wolf's rhetorical questions are tackled with grace and one always feels richer for having spent time with her.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bridges]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill.  Suddenly to our left the world opened out and there was the grandest of piazzas, Piazza Navona. The name Navona and the piazza’s long oval form go back to its origin as the Circus Agonale.  This was a stadium, inaugurated by the Emperor Domitian in 86 A.D., that was designed to host a Roman alternative to the Olympic games (and to the gladiators in the Colosseum, that had been built by Domitian’s father and brother, Vespasian and Titus).  I never liked Domitian.  He was big on public works but a terrible administrator.  He may or may not have killed a lot of Christians but he was certainly a murderer of many opponents--until they murdered him in the year 96.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy  by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Abourezk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and in their most recent book.  But they have had to spend a great deal of words and time assuring their readers that they are not anti-Semites, an accusation that has been the main force of the attack on them by the Israel Lobby.  There is a well-rehearsed chorus of Israel supporters lying in wait for whoever dares to criticize Israel’s policies, ready to pounce, catlike, and with great force on the unfortunate miscreant.  What is interesting is that I have yet to see any of Mearsheimer and Walt’s pro-Israel critics challenge the accuracy of what they have written.  Those critics rely on the charge of anti-Semitism, as well as vague, unspecified allegations of inaccuracies in what they have written.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Garan Holcombe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is delicious, authentic, accurate and brilliantly realised. Ferris’s office is one of pranks and games; sushi rolls find their way behind people’s bookshelves, things go missing from desks, and chairs are mysteriously swapped. There are the customary shifts and swings of popularity and power; endless arguments about who deserves to go, and who deserves to stay; and regular colloquies about some of the more unusual behaviour of the staff. But Ferris’s novel is as much about the way we act when thrown together with strangers, as it is office life.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Noogie&#8217;s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Garan Holcombe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine in Fast Eddie’s Drug Hut by shouting ‘bang’. Noogie drops four thousand dollars in twenties all over the floor, screams at the kid and then gathers the notes up. It is only when he has loaded them all into the ATM that he finds a stray twenty under his shoe. It is then that the idea for the ‘perfect slow-motion heist’ occurs to him.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by placing a rectangle around the Parthenon (Athens, Greece) and the United Nations building (New York), as well as at the doors of the Cathedral of Chartres (France). Let’s not forget that the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. must contain the golden ratio as do all regular pentagons."]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jascha Kessler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station at 5 pm that afternoon, to take only one small suitcase and nothing which could identify me, not even newspaper as wrapping. At the station, the lady explained through an interpreter (another refugee living in the same house as my mother), I would see people I knew, but I should on no account appear to know them.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Garan Holcombe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned hedges’. We follow five married women who live there, all of whom, we are to imagine, are in early middle-age. They have young children and live in nice, comfortable houses. They do not want for money. But each is beset by worries as to the nature and meaning of their domesticated, suburban lives.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Braun Kessler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!  We find retold the lives and careers of preeminents like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington , Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and many more.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John R. Guthrie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably adept. The diary entry for 8 April, 1968 reads, “Operated on one case of appendicitis without adequate anesthesia. I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once during the entire procedure. He just kept smiling, to encourage me.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bridges]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time.  In his Europe, in a time of worldwide economic depression, a whole series of governments were run by “strong men.”  Besides Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, there were authoritarian regimes if not dictatorships in the 1930s in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.  There were Blueshirts in Ireland, Blackshirts in Britain, and Vidkun Quisling’s followers in Norway.  At the eastern end of Europe lay the greatest dictatorship of them all, Stalin’s Soviet Union.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Terrors on Terra</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jascha Kessler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How grotesque it must have sounded to a child, and how frightening.  Outdoors, the sun of Southern California sparkles on the watered green lawn; within, the house is tranquil.  And here in this pleasant kitchen sit two grownups, his grandparents, filling the day’s bright first hour with descriptions of disasters around the globe, massacres marching on to catastrophes and death by the thousands.  And then these same grownups fold their papers, rise smiling and replete from the table to drive off to work as usual.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bridges]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a young Oxford graduate named Langton.  After him a number of other non-Catholic foreigners were buried there, and not just English people; there is a record of a student from Hannover being buried there a few years later.   But while the Papal authorities now tolerated the non-Catholic burials, they had to take place at night, probably to lessen the possibility that the local folk would mock if not attack the foreigners’ funeral processions.  (As late as 1854 a small mob tried to assault a Protestant clergyman who had officiated at the funeral of the wife of a German diplomat.)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human being that have not been generally developed in western educational practices and culture but are nevertheless quite real. It was Abraham Maslow who gave the Esalen actors a vocabulary and psychology to express how such potentialities might be actualized.” ]]></description>
		
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