William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

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By the time he died in October 2025, Marcel Weyland’s travels had taken him from Poland to the furthest reaches of the Earth, and back again. He had been honoured by the governments of Australia, ...

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Tackling this culminating challenge in the company of his beloved Beatrice, who inspired the poem, Dante must trasumanar, a ...

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Mr. Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, celebrated the city’s diversity and pledged to govern “audaciously” in his inaugural address. Hours later, he signed three executive orders ...