I seem to be reading more books about the Borgias these days:

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Sins of the House of Borgia, by Sarah Bower, is a fictional look at the family with a focus on Lucrezia and Cesare.

Related pages for travel, books and movies:

• Rome
• Tivoli

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The Second Duchess, by Elizabeth Loupas, is a Renaissance novel about Barbara of Austria, Duchess of Ferrara.  Enjoy.  Nancy

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You can never really make amends, but it seems corporations and governments, like individuals, ought to try.

Before the WWII generation disappears into history, perhaps we should settle as many accounts as possible.  Read what Holmes has to say and act if you can.  Nancy

PS  In case you missed the official Japanese position on prisoners of war, it read, "It is the aim not to allow the escape of a single one, to annihilate them all, and not to leave any traces."  (Japanese War Ministry document exhibit 2015, Tokyo War Crimes Trials)

Holmes states, "Nearly 40 percent of US military prisoners died in Japanese captivity, while just over 1 percent of Americans died in Nazi hands."

Given the goal of extermination, it's amazing so many POWs survived.

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