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May-26| War & Peace - Book 8, Chapter 5. In this chapter we see confirmed that Boris was indeed looking for a bride in Marya. Unfortunately, Marya couldn’t stop thinking about what her father said, and paid little attention to Boris because of it.
4 days ago · The episode and episode descriptions will provide information, context and commentary on how each chapter plays out. The goal is for each episode to be under 10 minutes.
3 days ago · This is my first read of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.If you want to read along, I’m using the Oxford World’s Classics edition (translated by Louise and Aylme...
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- Alexander Ipfelkofer
Book 2, Part IV, Ch 1, pg 94 (Volume 2 in Everyman's Library edition) The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labour - idleness - was a condition of the first man's blessedness before the Fall. Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our ...
1 day ago · Governments frequently assert that war is necessary to sustain the economy and preserve jobs, echoing Keynesian beliefs that advocate for continual tension to ward off economic stagnation. This ideology perpetuates a cycle where peace is the 'broken window,' obscured by the fallacy that war is economically beneficial. Economic Disruption by War
23 hours ago · Hamas said on Thursday it had told mediators it would not take part in more negotiations during ongoing aggression but was ready for a "complete agreement" including an exchange of hostages and ...
4 days ago · Episode 3: War and Peace (1942–1954) Latinos played a critical role on and off the battlefields of World War II. Despite their dedication to the war effort, they experienced widespread segregation and discrimination in the United States.
