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06/25/2020

Bulgaria’s Beating Heart and Revolutionary Road

Dreaming back to that invincible summer

by John Hartley

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02/25/2008

Horsing Around With Catherine the Great

Why women in 18th century Russia should have stuck to riding sidesaddle.

by Tony Perrottet

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