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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
6:30pm
Frank White was one of the Kansas City Royals’ anchors the last time they were defending World Series champions – 30 years ago. He we...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...
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Monday, April 11, 2016
6:30pm
Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of more...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:30pm
When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore, t...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
6:30pm
Winston Churchill wasn’t overtly religious. But he subscribed to divine destiny, telling a classmate at age 16 that he foresaw a day when “London will...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
11:00am
Clarina Nichols died more than a quarter-century before Kansas became the eighth state to grant women the right to vote in 1912. But the dedicated ref...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...