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Simon Schama

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The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order

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fresh tomato/ basil sauce and poblano pepper relish to go with grilled swordfish this evening - unintentional Italian tricolor

fresh tomato/ basil sauce and poblano pepper relish to go with grilled swordfish this evening - unintentional Italian tricolor
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many decades ago when Sonny Mehta was my publisher at Knopf and I was nervous youngish author Gita gave me this - Rajput I guess - miniature to give me whiskery confidence. I loved her smokey voice, her take no prisoners wit, her brilliant writing. Very lucky to have known her.

many decades ago when Sonny Mehta was my publisher at Knopf and I was nervous youngish author Gita gave me this - Rajput I guess - miniature to give me whiskery confidence. I loved her smokey voice, her take no prisoners wit, her brilliant writing. Very lucky to have known her.
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The fiercely eloquent Simon Schama on the history of epidemics, and human response: '(W)e're capable of incomparable ingenuity of the kind that can produce vaccines in record time, but...'
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This is , Cherkasy region, central , an important site of Hasidic Judaism. More than 20,000 Hasidic Jews from all over the world are now in the city for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year celebration.

And Russia claims that Ukraine is Nazi.

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so glad to have talked with Scott Simon for Weekend edition about my book on vaccine history - at a time when Covid is back and with it vaccine resistance - and its dangerous politics

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Shana tova ve metukah - a good and sweet year to all my lovely tweeps (you will never be Xers) - Jewish and not Jewish alike. May this one - somehow - be a blessing for us all and the world.

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Got questions for ⁦Simon Schama⁩ about pandemics through history? Send them to ⁦Washington Post Live⁩. Then join us on Tuesday! washingtonpost.com/washington-pos…

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Conspiracy theories around vaccines are not new. But as Simon Schama found in his new book, Foreign Bodies, scientists once hoped that as scientific knowledge became more widespread, conspiracy theories would be discarded – yet the reality turned out to be quite different.

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