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Founded on this day in 1974 in the Frankfurt suburb of Neu-Isenburg by entrepreneur and aerospace engineer Lutz Kayser, the West German co...

First affecting Greece and Turkey with massive floods before reorganising itself as a low front over the Mediterranean and overwhelming da...

In the first State of the Union Address to the American people since the 9/11 terror attacks some five months hence, delivered on this d...

On this day in 1507, humanist and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller—whom also went by the Latinised form of his name Hylacomylus (forest-la...

Marginal Revolution correspondent Alex Tabarrok clues us in to the mysterious and probably lost herb favoured by the ancient Greeks and Rom...

Though the public was quick to blame politicians and the authorities beholden to them for systemic failures in the migration and asylum proc...

These end-of-year annuals have become somewhat of a tradition here ( here , here , here , and here too) at PfRC but never before in these a...

I think I must just be a little naïve, because although I never felt that the threat that the Caliphate poses was not a very real one, prove...

Though more concerned presently is on keeping Venice and other islands from sinking further below the waves, our favourite BLDG BLOG reports...

While I have respect for the former United Nations’ Secretary General and hope that his mission does help stop violence and blood-shed, ther...

Collusion, conspiracy seems to play a big part in commercial affairs, especially when deferment, demurring on the inevitable, is playing an ...

Continuing incidents in this lead up to Spring have proved to be incommensurate with the conventional public systems of measurement and we a...

Trojan sunset, which sounds like some exotic and potent cocktail, or Delta Dawn (what’s that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose fr...

The situation in North Africa and the Mid-East is still explosive, and despite progress won there is a distinct and present risk of recid...