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Kalender Matahari Purba Peru Dinyatakan Sebagai Warisan Budaya Dunia Basuki Eka Purnama | Internasional   SEBUAH lokasi observasi matahari berusia 2.300 tahun di Peru, sebuah struktur yang berupa 13 menara batu yang dibangun di atas bukit dan dijadikan kalender, dinyatakan sebagai Situs Warisan Budaya Dunia oleh UNESCO, Selasa (27/7). Observatori Chankillo, yang dibangun oleh perabadan kuno sekitar dua milenial sebelum hadirnya suku pemuja matahari, Kerajaan Inca, bisa dengan tepat melakukan observasi astronomi. Reruntuhan di atas bukit yang terletak sekitar 400 kilometer di utara Lima itu s...

Len Deighton and the mundanity of spies For the spy novelist, espionage was not a thrilling solitary pursuit but an extension of the world we live in. I was sent to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution and to keep Russia in the war,” wrote Somerset Maugham in the preface to  Ashenden, or the British Agent (1928). “The reader will know,” he continued drily, “that my efforts did not meet with success.” In 1915-16, already a successful novelist and playwright, Maugham worked as a British spy in Geneva after being recruited by an intelligence officer he met at a dinner arranged by his...