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In December's Quadrant, Salvatore Babones mooted the theory that the Bard was actually Kit Marlowe, reports of whose death may well have been premature. William Rubinstein begs to differ. While agreeing Shakespeare was not the author of the works that bear his name, his pick, based on what would otherwise be a series of remarkable coincidences and overlapping circles, is Sir Henry Neville
In Virginia in 1621, English colonists and the Powhatan people were trying to live in peace, at least for a while, that was born from the 1614 marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. That marriage, agreed to by Chief Powhatan, led to an alliance between the two cultures and afterward it was noted that native people worked, ate and even lived among the English for several years.
Decades of excavation and research at Jamestown, America's first fully successful British colony, has shed new light on the beginnings of a nation.
These violent storms have had far-reaching consequences that altered the course of history in surprising ways.
Sometimes words move up in the world. Their meanings change with time, becoming more positive—a process linguists call amelioration.