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JUST ABOUT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, I CAME ACROSS a scene that chimed with the season, and that stayed with me.
Many historians have argued that whatever their function in the state religion, the pyramids of Egypt were also politically useful make-work projects.

John Hay’s ringing phrase helped nominate T. R., but it covered an embarrassing secret that remained concealed for thirty years

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