Be patient, readers. There is a review in your future, but first—a history lesson. Lithuania is a relatively small (about 3 million people) country on the Baltic Sea, bordering both Russia and Poland. Once a prominent European Duchy, Lithuania has spent most of the last few centuries occupied by one foreign power or another. Lithuanians […]
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The Mandrake
“The ends justify the means”. Villainous ladder-climbers spout it in corporate dramas, and history teachers write it across blackboards (at least mine did). Most of us know Machiavelli from these words, and the work from which it came, The Prince. Most of us don’t know, however, that the scathing writer also penned a play. Faction […]