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The 2025 edition of Wimbledon brings several milestone anniversaries with it. It's been 50 years since Arthur Ashe became the ...

As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...

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in a grand 19th-century townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village. One night, a Spanish fashion academic brought a collection of antique matador outfits known as trajes de luces, “suits of lights,” and ...

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Three filmmakers dive into the battles that both united and divided the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, as ...