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Monday, August 17, 2026

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

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I have read a number of histories dealing with different periods of ancient Rome , but Mary Beard ’s SPQR accomplishes something difficult:...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Seeing the Art and Meeting the Artist at Frieda

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  Frieda for Generations  is a lovely coffee shop and  an intergenerational cultural space centered on conversation and connection in   Old ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

50th Anniversary Reunion 1st Battalion 70th Armor

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  Fifty years ago Brigade 76, 4th Brigade Mechanized, 4th Infantry Division , flew to West Germany . Four thousand soldiers left Fort Carson...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Responsibility and Judgment by Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt ’s Responsibility and Judgment is a posthumous collection of essays, lectures, and addresses assembled around questions that ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

A Tale of Two Lovers: A Renaissance Humanist Before He Became Pope

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  A Tale of Two Lovers by Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini is an unusual tale both for its content and because the author would later become Pope...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Cambridge American Military Cemetery: Remembering the Airmen Who Never Came Home

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Last month I visited the Cambridge American Cemetery in the quiet English village of Coton, just west of Cambridge. Maintained by the Americ...
Friday, July 24, 2026

The Battle of Salamis: The Victory That Saved Greece

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  Barry Strauss ’s The Battle of Salamis is a well-written, readable account of one of the decisive battles of the ancient world. Drawing o...