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A call at four in the morning does not bode well. Especially if the year is 1946, you are a psychiatrist, and the voice on the phone instructs you to determi...

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The biography of Dante Alighieri has attracted special attention right now, after the release of Dan Brown's scandalous book "Inferno". Is there a more amazi...

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous characters in literature. There are many books, films and TV series about him, in which Sherlock Holmes takes on mo...

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Ekaterina Mishanenkova is a historian and reenactor, researcher of medieval life and customs, author of popular science books about the Middle Ages. Facts an...

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