Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2008

Albinos in Tanzania

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dozens of albinos have been murdered and their bodies dismembered as some witch doctors claim that the use of albino body parts can help peo...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Dutch Fact of the Day

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In January 2007, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture issued a report in which it took 29 pages to explain "quality standards for onions,...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Islam in Contemporary Societies

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MA in Islam in Contemporary Societies - an interesting course from Warwick Related Podcast; Maqsood Ahmed , the government’s senior advisor ...
Monday, May 26, 2008

How Germans Love

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Friday, May 23, 2008

'Obsessive Sarkosis'- A new mental disease in France

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Serge Hefez, a practicing psychiatrist, has identified a new mental illness among the French: obsessive Sarkosis, an unhealthy fascination w...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Eurovision Corruption

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Forty years on, we are being asked to believe that General Franco ordered his top television executives to offer bribes to all and sundry to...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

The industrial revolution and the democratic transition

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The industrial revolution and the democratic transition . -- Aubhik Khan In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic ...

Dani Rodrik on EU

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To me the EU is the most impressive achievement of international economic statecraft in the second half of the 20th century . - Rodrik
Friday, May 9, 2008

Social Capital and Gender in Italy

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Berlusconi publicly mocked spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for hiring too many women, saying, “ Zapatero has formed a go...
Monday, May 5, 2008

The Creation of Israel

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A three-part series from Al Jazeera examining the origins, violent creation, and modern-day reality of the state of Israel, told through the...

The Enclosures in Brittain

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In the early 19th century, the Northamptonshire poet John Clare took a good look at the countryside and didn’t like what he saw. He wrote: ...
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Susac's syndrome

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" It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying ," - The British woman who woke up thinking s...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Economic Prediction of the Day

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Comment on tomorrow’s announcement by the Treasury and Bank of England
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Catholic Jews of America?

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“Catholic Jews” are children or grand children of European immigrants who grew up along side Irish, Italian and Polish Catholic immigrant fa...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Photo of the Day- Peleş Castle, Romania

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Quote of the Day

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" Good government in Italy is a by-product of singing groups and soccer clubs, not prayer ."- Robert Putnam
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Another report to read

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House of Lords report on the economic impact of immigration ; Immigration has become highly significant to the UK economy: immigrants compri...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Tibet 2, Beijing 0

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

The School of Athens

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When the Renaissance learned to live with the risks of reason, a turbaned Averroes would find a place of honor standing behind Aristotle in...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Cyprus's sex trade

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