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Medieval News Archive01-Feb-2007
The big band that keeps evolving visits UA ... Celebrate Medieval war game at Loft ... Gaslight Theatre hosts Mariachi Extravaganza United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will hand over his plan for the future of Kosovo on Friday to Serb authorities braced for proposals that will set the breakaway province on a path to independence. This sweeping, scholarly exhibition that breathes fresh air into one of the most tired, overworked and misunderstood subjects in the city?s history. Medieval coats-of-armor are smaller than you might expect, and now so is ``Camelot.'' Lerner & Loewe's big Kennedy-era musical has been scaled down significantly in terms of length and cast members, revisions that make the setting seem less like Broadway and Herald Square and more like Merrie Olde England (albeit a relatively unpopulated one). Gian Carlo Menotti, the Italian composer and arts impresario who founded the Two Worlds Festival based in Spoleto and Charleston, South Carolina, died on Thursday, friends said. New York, N.Y.(January 26, 2007)? From Pope Benedict XVI to the Harvard historian Bernard Lewis, people are asking, What went wrong? How did Middle Eastern cultures transform from the openness and intellectual ferment of the Medieval period to the closed theocrat societies of today?
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