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Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most        industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers.          Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which        transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France....

Women with epilepsy have different needs to men with epilepsy, especially at        various stages in their life cycle. Epilepsy and its treatment can affect or        compromise the menstrual cycle, contraception, fertility and pregnancy, child        development in the womb, child care and the menopause. Conversely the menstrual        cycle,...

What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to these fundamental questions. On his view, which he dubs 'the Aesthetic Creation Theory', a work of art is something created for a particular aesthetic...

Sumerian is the world's oldest written language, first written down, in ancient Iraq, some 5000 years ago. These translations into modern English are the most comprehensive collection available of the world's first literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs, and love poetry,...

In the mid 1960s, C. Vann Woodward was asked to organize a program of broadcast        lectures on US history for the Voice of America as part of a longer series designed        to acquaint foreign audiences with leaders in American arts and sciences. Reasoning        that a comparative approach "e;was peculiarly adapted to the interests and...

How Hitler's Henchmen Fled JusticeThe story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports at the end of the Second World War and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America....