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When my mother and I were together for the first time in Germany, we were bemused by the profileration of what we called cheese-banks, Spa... -
Undisclosed until well after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and at a time of severely deteriorated relations seeded with deep distrust ... -
tokyo drift : where potential car owners have to show proof to the dealership of a place to park before purchase, Japanese architects carve ... -
Travelling a bit northeast towards Gotha, we visited the community of Luisenthal to see the dam of the river Ohra that flowed west of Obe... -
Another example of the abused to meaningless Poe’s Law when even a small percentage of Trump’s AI slop escapes containment into reality... -
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Though always eager to disclaim its remit as a spoken history of a global language, the latest episode of The History of English present... -
The Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, announces it will divest itself of US treasury holdings as the American debt crisi... -
Iran announces a restricted zone surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, still settling in for a long war despite sustaining heavy attacks from ... -
With economic indicators like the better than expected jobs numbers and crippling inflation pointing to a need to increase interest rates,... -
Keeping English orthography being what it is and the profusion of loan-words, established or trendy, and the sage prescription not to judge...