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A reprint of an article from the Illustrated Graphic News, 1886. This article describes the wedding of President and Mrs. Cleveland, the only president to be married in the White House.

The mission of the London-based independent Commission on National Security in the 21st Century set up in May this year is to review the current security landscape & suggest an independent security strategy for the United Kingdom. Co-Chair Lord Robertson of Port Ellen & Deputy Chair Ian Kearns set out their view of the threats & changes in the security landscape & suggest ways in which security should be re-thought. In particular they stress the urgent requirement to project governance more effectively into failed states & to create more effective international control & storage regimes for fissile nuclear material. Adapted from the source document.

The life and career of one of anthropology's most important ancestors, William Robertson Smith in the context of the history of anthropology. William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the "Myth and Ritual School." With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim. "This is a clear, well-informed and interesting account of Robertson Smith's central ideas. The theories are set in the context of debates of the day, and their influence on anthropology and bible studies is discussed. An original and fascinating section reviews Robertson Smith's field work in the Middle East, which was much more extensive and intensive than is, I think, generally appreciated."-Adam Kuper, London School of Economics From the introduction: Although respected and studied, especially since the 1990s, Smith has a somewhat paradoxical position in the history of social and cultural anthropology. Anthropologists educated in the twentieth century admire him, but many contemporary scholars are not quite sure what to make of him