The trading card market exploded early in the pandemic as people capitalized on their nostalgia and sought alternative forms of investment — safe harbors that would keep their assets safe and appreciate over time.
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The Roman imagination is vast, and so is the human propensity to wonder. That is why Rome endures.
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Imaginatio Romana est immensa, atque eadem mens humana est mirari. Ideo Roma perseverat.
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Between its sturdy build and historical and spiritual content, the 1962 missal is not yet a museum piece, even if its contents haven’t been updated in 56 years.
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How do you know when you are not just in a crisis, but the crisis? A period so long, lurching from moment to moment, that it transcends a single event and becomes the event itself. In other words, the Long Crisis.
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The debates of the 21st century can obscure the vision of the Founders and the context within which they operated. “The last best hope” can sound pompous, even a little arrogant, and perhaps as a way to paper over the real issues affecting real people. But there is a reason that motif has survived since the Founding, and that reason is because it is true.
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My time spent with people exploring Rome’s labyrinth of churches, streets, restaurants, museums, churches, and cafes and praying, learning about art, history and the Italian language, and of course eating, and drinking cappuccinos, espressos, and wine, allowed my friends and I to embrace challenges, differences, and build authentic and lasting relationships.
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The arguments made to advance abolition, civil rights, and the preferential treatment of the weak and disabled in our society have been advanced on terms inherited from Rome and from the faith Rome embraced.
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Ballpark is an epic work and an excellent contribution to the discussion of baseball’s past, present, and future. It perfectly articulates what baseball has meant and continues to mean in the American city.
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One hundred years after the armistice of 1918, are we finally in a post-war period? What does that mean? And what does the war mean a century after the fighting stopped?
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People say that Chicagoans have more in common with people in Milwaukee than those in Springfield, and the states are relics of the past. But a look at Nevada’s history tells us otherwise. Without the worry over Lincoln’s re-election, Nevada would never have become a state. Without Lincoln, there is no Las Vegas Strip, no Oceans 11, and, indeed, no Nevada.
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