Language always tells a story. As COVID-19 shakes the world, many of the words we’re using to describe it originated during earlier calamities – and
In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will
In the second year of the Peloponnesian War, the great tussle between Greece’s two pre-eminent city-states that led to the eventual downfall of Athenian hegemony
“In many places in Siena great pits were dug and piled deep with the multitude of the dead. And they died by the hundreds, both
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