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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… they never eat with someone else’s knife or fork or drink from someone else’s glass. They claim that this is cleaner and healthier.ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris , 154) al-Tahtāwī focused on cleanliness in his book describing, with wonder …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… to proceed in the part, floundering his lines, he left the stage forever and spent the last years of his life in poor health and poverty-stricken. Macklin’s astonishing and lasting success across the London Georgian theatres and in Dublin …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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