#Europe

Octavio Paz on Nehru:“It was in the last years of his life. Despite his visible fatigue, I was always amazed at his elegance: immaculately dressed in white with a rose
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #Kilcmichael Ambush. I’ve long been struck by the parallels between it and a key event in Algerian War, the Palestro Ambush of May
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Mini thread : « Fox in the box»Qu’est ce que le renard des surfaces ?Est-il en voie de disparition ? Le renard des surfaces est un
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As a teenager my morning music was Garnet Silk a Rastafarian singer. Now as an adult its Bhimsen Joshi and other Indian vocalist and instrumentalist. How to explain this transition
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THREAD: I’ve been trying to figure out how to put the tornado of emotions I’m feeling into words over this article.See, I am Bosnian American! My heart forever devided in
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So many people make the mistake that it is either culture OR genetics that is the answer for why some ancestral groups excel.The real answer is that each CULTURE selects
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1/ Moises Caicedo [nearly] to Man United getting the Fabrizio confirmation. For those of you who don’t know about the 19-year-old star from Ecuador, I can’t even begin to tell
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Thread: I’ve put together a list of some of Ireland’s most important museums & libraries. Each has an important collection & is currently reopening. As a country with 20% of
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- War on #YemenNarrating the Yemeni conflict as a "proxy war" is nothing but an oversimplification, and merely serves imperialist interests.Yemen could've been so powerful, but was never allowed to
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1. So why do some people keep complaining about what they were made to do when they studied at Christian schools. By its very nature, it will make you sing
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The key to avoiding more lockdowns is finding a way to “live with the virus” through:Widespread testingTracing of contactsIsolating positive casesWestern countries have made structural, not cultural errors here http://trib.al/X4AUjxs&nb
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In the midst of all the preparation for #SAME we'd forgotten today is our 6 year Twitter anniversary making the #SAMEpremiere our anniversary celebration stream in hindsight Thanks for all
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Vaccine shortages are beginning to bite in more and more EU MS, as rollouts are - FINALLY - beginning to pick up speed. @FT tells us that Portugal and France
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KM asks why the GOP leadership is terrified of losing.(Both Lindsay Graham and Matt Gaetz said if the GOP loses this election, they'll never win again.)GOP is a minority party.
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Nobody wanted to see a repeat of the spring, with hospitalisations rising and stringent measures coming back in. But UK isn't in quite the same position as March, so here
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I shall be sharing my thoughts on the involvement of South Africans in drugs in South Africa, and other parts of the world. I must warn upfront that the things
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