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Saint Patrick in Context: Dates, Legends, and The Confessio

Literature
He is Ireland's outstanding patron saint, conventionally held to have brought Christianity to the country in 432, and his feast day every 17 March is the cause for commemoration and revelry throughout the world - but remarkably little can be stated with any degree of certainty about the life of Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on the traditional date...

Clotted Hinderparts and Privy Drains: Game of Thrones and a History of Death on the Toilet

Literature
The twentieth century saw an abundance of famous toilet-related deaths. Elvis died in 1977 at just forty-two years old, found on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, apparently having fallen from the toilet seat. Obese, and struggling with glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, the cause of his death was given as...

A Brief History of Ukraine

Literature
With the situation in Crimea apparently determined, at least for the time being, attention is turning to other sites in Ukraine and beyond. The withdrawal of Ukrainian forces at the beginning of this week - after Russian troops seized the Belbek airbase and Feodosia naval base - marked the interim Ukrainian government's tacit acceptance that Crimea has been lost. Russian...