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...courses and qualifications [A memorial plaque to the Devon Witches, the last women to be executed for "witchcraft" in England] A memorial to the last women to be killed for 'witchcraft' in the UK - but 300 years later, 'witch' is still a term of abuse thrown at women You would have thought that Western society might have grown out of the habit of portraying powerful women...

...free circulation of air, patients labouring under chronic disorders cannoty with propriety be subjected to the same treatment, and a system of medical police which is essential ion the one case to prevent the spreading of the disease, becomes highly prejudicial in the other; besides, a greater prejudice prevails; and your Committee cannot consider it as unfounded, among...

...course impressed one. Monday 4th September 1848 Reached Buckingham Place at half past one. After our luncheon, we saw Lord Lansdowne, to whom I spoke strongly this Italian question Then, saw Sir George Grey, who told us that the accounts of the state of London were very good; 64 Chartists are in prison, either awaiting their trial, or undergoing their sentence. Louis...

...course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled understanding of the invisible web that every ambitious,...