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Asia Week New York is delighted to present a Virtual Preview of ancient and contemporary treasures from the Far East on Thursday, March 11 at 5:00 p.m. (EST); 2:00 p.m. (PST).  To reserve, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oA86NxqZSB273qYA5C2gxw To celebrate this exciting occasion, a panel of distinguished guest speakers will provide a preview of Asian art in their respective fields on a newly designed digital viewing room.  They include: Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairma...

Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, Macamathehou, that involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad (Middle English Makomet/Macamethe, Old French Mahomet). Whilst it has been plausibly seen as an instance of a variant of the name of Muhammed being used to mean heathen, pagan idol or similar (based on the false but common medi...

Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. W. W. Norton. 912 pages. $40. I ’ve never understood what others make out of non-fiction. Me, I used to make fiction out of it, but that was a while ago and I’m talking about regular people. I’m talking about you people, who apparently even now keep buying and library-borrowing, perhaps even reading, masses of these vast, fact-teeming books whose genre swears to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God. What exactly do y...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 24 December 2020, the European Union and the UK Government reached an agreement on the terms of their future cooperation, known as the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a single package comprising: General and institutional arrangements; Law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal and civil law matters; and Provisions on dispute settlements, basic values and safeguard measures. T...

Fiction Sneak Peek: January 16, 2021 Issue By Our opening story this week is “A Word Of Advice”, set in 1849. Dinah thinks romance has passed her by, but her sentimental aunt helps her see things differently. Written by Alison Carter, our opener is warmly illustrated by David Young. “The Cat’s Out Of The Bag” is our next short story. When Linda’s husband leaves after forty years, her sadness manifests itself in an unusual way. Eirin Thompson’s short story is thoughtfully illustr...

Welcome back to Part Six of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a...