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World Play: A common language

Scottish English can provide some quirky lingo

John Hoyte follows in the footsteps of Hannibal of Carthage

Plus: remembering a German mathematician, and the death of an English chaplain

Jordan J. Ballor | We still have much to learn from the great Dutchman


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Plus: a milestone for the U.S. petroleum reserve and the debut of a science fiction icon

Jenny Lind Schmitt | How a historical puzzle launched one man’s repeat journeys across the Alps

Two friends in Australia decided to start playing a sport from the pages of history

City of God by Augustine is worth stretching a little to read

Plus: the Enron scandal, and the first public viewing of a masterpiece

All Saints’ Day is a holiday Christians have been celebrating for centuries