In the 12th century, who was the lover and then husband of Héloïse, celebrated as a writer and scholar and, later, a nun and abbess?
Boycotted the Games by not sending diplomats or official representatives A further 12 countries also did not send official representatives, but either explicitly denied this was a boycott or cited health reasons. Chinese news media had warned that China could "seriously sanction any country that follows a boycott". Public calls for a boycott had swelled in the aftermath of the 2019 leak of 400 pages of internal Chinese government documents describing the government policy regarding Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, and of the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests at increasingly heavy-handed mainland restrictions.
As well as being a spy, for which brief career she was both celebrated and then executed, in what other profession did Mata Hari engage?
A gold cauldron discovered in 2001, initially thought to be ancient, then to be early 20th century, and later to have been made by a silversmith who created for Nazi, was discovered where?
Which 13th century philosopher, linguist, empirical scientist, writer and Franciscan Friar known as Doctor Mirabilis, was known for his mediaeval Latin work "Opus Major"?
What was the first, and only complete, novel, published in 1788, written by 18th-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft?
