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Cities on the Brink

The Essay

麻豆社 news correspondents present personal perspectives on the capital cities of the major European powers that, later in 1914, would face each other in the First World War

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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