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Book reviews roundup: The Cauliflower; All That Man Is; This Orient Isle

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
What the critics thought of The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker, All That Man Is by David Szalay and This Orient Isle Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton. The Cauliflower, the latest novel by Nicola Barker, was greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and bafflement ... a 100-megawatt novel ... This Orient Isle ... It’s a shame we have to slog through some of the denser trade negotiations of the 1570s.”. ....

Shakespeare's school revamp proves Stratford-upon-Avon's a class act

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr 2016
I feel awe, and some emotion, as I stand in the dark-beamed Tudor schoolroom where William Shakespeare was taught in the middle of the 16th century ... Advertisement ... The low-ceilinged, heavily beamed dwelling has a parlour, hall, workshop and bedchambers, which are furnished as they would have looked in the 1570s, when William and his siblings lived there with their father John, a glove-maker, and their mother, Mary ... AAP. ....

Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into 'the first city of capitalism'

Edit The Guardian 21 Mar 2016
The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan or Seville ... Cities is supported by ... The production of silver in the city exploded in the early 1570s after the discovery of a mercury amalgamation process to extract it from the mined ore, coupled with the imposition of a forced labour system known as the mita ... ....

Spectacular sunrises once seen by warlord

Edit The Japan News 09 Mar 2016
By Chikafumi Urano / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterFUKUYAMA, Hiroshima — After a five-minute drive from the Tomonoura port area, a scenic inlet on the Numakuma Peninsula, I arrived in the town of Numakuma, located four kilometers southwest ... First I headed to the Kannondo hall of Bandaiji temple ... It is said to have been built by the warlord Mori Terumoto in the 1570s and has been designated as a national important cultural property ... + - ... ....

'The Kingdom of Little Wounds' Review

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
The Kingdom of Little Wounds Cover.  © Candlewick Press. This beautifully-written and beautifully-produced book is a hefty tome both physically and emotionally ... Full Title. The Kingdom of Little Wounds Author. Susann Cokal Publisher ... There are descriptions of the horrific effects of the illnesses afflicting the royal children (which is probably syphilis) and the King, and the world of the 1570s was not, in any way, a gentle one ... ....

Travel Guide to Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

Edit About.com 29 Jan 2016
For hundreds of years, the Philippines' walled city of Intramuros was Manila. the Spanish settlement at the mouth of the Pasig River sat at a strategic location for trade and defense, and the settlers ruled their growing Philippine empire from within their settlement's walls ... Intramuros and Philippine Culture ... Intramuros was surrounded by enemies. The Chinese pirate Limahong had attempted to take over Manila twice in the 1570s ... ....

J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires 17th-Century Masterpiece by Orazio Gentileschi: Danaë, c. 1621 (J Paul ...

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jan 2016
(Source. J Paul Getty Museum) LOS ANGELES -The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition at auction of Danaë (1621) by the famed Italian painter Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639). The monumental oil painting depicting the classical theme of Danaë and the shower of gold was one of three paintings commissioned together in 1621 ... By the late 1570s or early 1580s he was painting figures in fresco in several Roman churches ... J ... (noodl....

Journey 16,000 Years into the Past at Meadowcroft Rockshelter

Edit About.com 21 Jan 2016
A journey 16,000 years into the past begins just an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh ... The archaeological dig site at Meadowcroft Rockshelter. Rossilynne Culgan Meadowcroft Rockshelter History ... Wigwams are featured in the "1570s Monongahela Indian Village" display ... The “1570s Monongahela Indian Village” includes wigwams, a hunting camp, animal pelts, a garden, and a chance to try the atlatl, a spearthrower used by prehistoric hunters ... ....

Philippines' Top Churches

Edit About.com 18 Jan 2016
The Philippines has about as many Catholic churches as Bali has temples. The arrival of Spanish conquistadores in the 1570s also brought missionaries intent on claiming the Filipino pagans and "Moros" (Muslims) for Christ. Thus Catholicism came and stayed - today, more than 80 percent of Filipinos consider themselves to be Catholic, and Catholic ritual permeates Filipino culture deeply ... Fortunate for us ... Address ... Address ... Address ... ....

'Toenail Hoard' of 500 coin clippings found in Forest of Dean

Edit BBC News 18 Nov 2015
Hundreds of 16th Century coin clippings have been discovered in a Gloucestershire field. The 500 silver clippings, dubbed the Toenail Hoard, were unearthed by Gavin Warren using a metal detector in the Forest of Dean ... Finds liaison officer Kurt Adams said ... "The earliest clippings date from the reign of Elizabeth I, so 1560s to 1570s, and the latest from 1645," he said ... ....

Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm: The hard-fought battle for the centre of the world

Edit The Irish Times 19 Sep 2015
It is common knowledge that the Mediterranean was once, as its names indicates, the centre of the world. But we are only starting to understand what that central role might have meant for the people who lived in the territories on its shores ... Greeks, Romans and Normans ... Television ... Divided populations ... He was probably recruited when acting as a trainee dragoman – an interpreter – when he was in Istanbul in the mid-1570s ... Diet ... A Life ....

The 5,000 year history of interest rates shows just how historically low US rates are right now

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2015
Haldane's list of sources for this is pretty staggering (and you can look through them all here.) ... Check them out below. Mesopotamia, c 3000 BC. 20% Babylon, Code of Hammurabi, 1772 BC ... rates of 40+% ... 6.25% Holland, beginning of the Eighty Years' War, 1570s ... ....

The 5,000-year history of interest rates shows just how historically low US rates are right now

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2015
Haldane's list of sources for this is pretty staggering (you can look through them all here) ... Check them out below. Mesopotamia, c 3000 BC. 20% Babylon, Code of Hammurabi, 1772 BC ... rates of 40+% ... 1150 ... 6.25% Holland, beginning of the Eighty Years' War, 1570s ... ....
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