#European

1) Some are asking the reasonable question "Why capitalize 'Black' but not 'White''"? After all, both groups are vastly diverse, contain many cultural backgrounds, political views, interests, ethnic backgrounds
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Fellow historians with interest in #mediahistory and #bookhistory. I would like to establish the hashtag #globalbookhistory for collecting and promoting studies that pay attention to non-Eurocentric, global, transregional views on
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The Gaelic "uinneag" might look it's using the diminutive -ag suffix we see in lots of other words (like caileag, piseag, and lots of names), but it's not. It in
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Story TimeThe Story Of Alessandro Costacurta & AC Milan 24 April 1966 | In a province just outside Milan. A day that saw the birth of one of the
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Luxembourg has made steps towards greater transparency. But it’s still a prime destination for dirty money worldwide.Here's how the tiny nation became a center of corporate secrecy, who has benefited,
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Pundits are formulating increasingly convoluted, bellicose justifications for the UK breaching int’l law (eg. @benhabib6 on Sky claiming this is an “annexation” of Northern Ireland by the EU). It might
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So a positive thread, with the important caveat we didnt win and would have wanted too. 1- We hung in for a draw. We didnt do that against West Ham,
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A few choice quotes to recall from the Brexiteer leaders:1) Coming to a free trade agreement with the EU should be "one of the easiest in human history.' Liam Fox,
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THREAD:WHY EUROPE LOSES TO RUSSIA AND CHINA:Let us have a look to what led to the complete failure of @JosepBorrellF who was completely humiliated in Moscow. It is a strategic
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I've never felt as disappointed at the sheer scale of ingratitude I've seen today.Every tweet talking like Ireland is doing terribly in our pandemic response and throwing around insults &
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The club's condemnation of these players is justified. Covid cases are rising sharply across the continent, the country's medical services are under immense strain. The country has entered it's second
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TIL (02/07/20) - On 28th Feb 1970, Copenhagen witnessed a concert performed by a rock band named the Nobs. The band was on a tour of Europe, starting with Helsinki
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Why was France so anxious about a fast-spreading mutant virus just across the straits of Dover? Maybe the French overreacted. Maybe they didn’t. But France has something to protect. Its
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A few years ago I was asked to speak at a Quant Conference in Chicago. It was an interesting experience as there were 200-300 plus people but a very skewed
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An astonishing amount of people in Britain seem to think that EFTA and the EEA are the same thing, including some who really ought to know better (or at least
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The katana is a solid sword. Couldn't really ask for a better cutter than a curved, two-handed blade.But I really enjoy debunking the mythos around it."The samurai thought the katana
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