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The phonemaker is rushing to set up shop close to its Eastern European customers The Transylvanian sheep pasture hadn't seen much action since the departure of the Roman whose ruined villa was recently unearthed nearby. But...
RADUCANENI - The 13-year-old boy sees his mother twice a week - and only by webcam because she's joined the waves of Romanians leaving their country to find work in Western Europe. His village, where farmers still plow fields...
Italians Angered Over Ruling by ECHR Italian schools are told crucifixes are exclusionary and Italians of all political persuasions react against the secularization of the country's Roman Catholic identity. The European Court...
Clover Stroud reviews an inspiring guidebook examining Romania's history and culture and a compelling narrative on why Italy is so seductive to travellers. ROMANIA edited by John Villiers (Pallas Athene _19.99) TUSCANY by...
Doing a literature search on the Price Equation for some weblog posts I found that Peter Turchin had written a new paper on world history using Price's formalism explicitly. A quantitative ecologist by training, Turchin has...
Comeback: Latin is enjoying a revival in state primary and secondary schools Latin is enjoying a revival in state primary and secondary schools, it emerged today. Meanwhile growing numbers of primaries are introducing Latin...
Nearly two years ago, Lance Cherry set off from the Far East on a ride home to South Africa. Celebrating a halfway stop, and the passage of Asia into the Middle East, he finds himself sucking deeply on a Turkish hookah and...
By Richard Garner, Education Editor, and Lewis Smith ALAMY Caesar, who apparently was sic in omnibus Canis studia domestici devoravit. Dog-based excuses for the non-delivery of homework are to become more erudite in state...
1989-2009: celebrations muted by the disappointments of the present By Mike Haynes What happened to the illusions that free market capitalism would bring democracy, social justice and equality to the societies of Eastern...
National Post – Conrad Black: Centuries in the making In the only place where heavily armed Soviet and American soldiers had faced each other in the Cold War, at the world-famous Berlin checkpoints, there was now an immense...
