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Just as Madame Henrietta was leaving the Carmelite convent to go to the Palais-Royal, a cavalier dismounted at the gate of the same royal residence, and told the guards that he had something important to say to Cardinal Mazarin. While the cardinal often felt...

Wintry morning, looking with dull eyes and sallow face upon the neighbourhood of Leicester Square, finds its inhabitants unwilling to get out of bed. Many of them are not early risers at the brightest of times, being birds of night who roost when the...

We deduce $q$-continued fractions $S_{1}(q)$, $S_{2}(q)$ and $S_{3}(q)$ of order fourteen, and continued fractions $V_{1}(q)$, $V_{2}(q)$ and $V_{3}(q)$ of order twenty-eight from a general continued fraction identity of Ramanujan. We establish some theta-function identities for the continued fractions and derive some colour partition identities as applications. Some vanishing coefficients results arising from the continued fractions are also offered.

This introduction lays out the over-arching argument of the book: that the novel of terrorism in the twenty-first century has steadily moved away from ‘event-based’ narratives. It discusses the exceptionalisation of 9/11 and some of the key historical, cultural and literary contexts for the 22 texts under discussion in the book. It then discusses and defines key terms including ‘terrorism’, ‘trauma’, and ‘systemic’, and outlines each of the five main chapters to come.

I report the discovery of twenty-two new variable stars in the Northern Sky: eleven eclipsing, seven pulsating (one of which is suspected), three rotating, and one of unspecified type. Three already known variables (PT Lyr, [WM2007] 1157, and [WM2007] 1160) have been studied more carefully in order to clarify their characterization or provide updated ephemeris.

They walked on silently to the centre of the Place; but as at that moment the moon came from behind a cloud, and as they thought that at this exposed part they could easily be seen, they reached the lime trees, where the shade...