The Last Surrealist – The New York Times

It was Paris in the late 1950s, and Jean-Claude Silbermann knew where the Surrealists met every evening from 5 to 6 p.m. He waited outside Le Musset, a cafe between the Palais Royal and the Louvre, until André Breton — the writer and poet who led the fluctuating, anarchic group — emerged with about 15…

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Ireland’s iconic megalithic tombs may have had an unexpected function

The megalithic graveyard of Carrowkeel in Sligo, Ireland scenicireland.com/Christopher Hill Photographic/Alamy Ireland’s megalithic tombs might not have been burial grounds for elite dynasties, as some thought, but rather places of community bonding. In 2020, researchers found genetic links among dozens of people in ancient tombs scattered across Ireland and evidence of incest in a man…

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