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After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

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Mary is growing tired of her role as dutiful middle sister in the face of her siblings’ romantic escapades ... with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about “Ten Little Soldier Boys.” ~ Concord ...

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By March, Portugal, the Kingdom of Naples and the Holy Roman Empire had joined the fray ... prevent him from reaching the Pacific) to the romantic (he’d been swept up in the spirit of the ...

He was the last of the great Romantic composers ... deep in geometric speculation, oblivious to the Roman conquest of his city then underway, told the soldier who had come to present him before the ...

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