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Festival season is upon us, with Venice getting underway now and Toronto not far behind. LFF 2015 is only a few more weeks away as well, and the BFI has just unveiled a brilliant line-up, featuring many of the brilliant movies heading to both of those...

“Build That Wall!” Refrain enthusiastically shouted during packed Donald Trump Republican campaign rallies around the US in 2016. “Tear down this wall!” Part of a speech made by Republican US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin June 12, 1987, calling...

Following on from my post highlighting the formerly fractious debates in the cloistered world of prehistoric and Medieval Irish and Celtic studies, between the so-called “nativist” and “anti-nativist” (aka. “revisionist“) schools, a long-term reader...

Nycholas, or Nicholas, was the first Estes we can document, even though the name then was spelled as Ewstas.  At that time, the U and W in the English language were synonymous and spelling was not yet standardized.  Most people were illiterate, so spelling...

September 25 In Jewish History 275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the pleasure of the Army.  In the case of Tacitus, that meant a mere six months.  One of...