Many Europeans born at the beginning of the XXth century had the privilege of participating as combatants or be civilian victims of two world wars. And still, so many people born after WWII, including my […]
More than most insurgent groups in history, the “anonymous soldiers” of Hoffman’s history left behind a legacy of accomplishment, as well as of terror—a conclusion as remarkable as the story that he has told so […]
The world’s first sovereign debt crisis and the true birth of globalisation Source: Robert Goodwin on 16th-century Spain
Nearly all Europeans had every reason to continue reprisals and revenge, after the end of WWII in 1945. Instead, with few exceptions, people got busy rebuilding their life, getting back to normality as far as […]
The Wall Street Journal published a story on the ancient Roman bridge, Ponte Emilio in Rome: Ancient Rome’s Bridge to Nowhere. If you are interested in history and architecture, it’s an informative piece, well written. Unexpected […]
Goggle+ post: Death penalty in the USA Nicodin Bogdan: Methods of Capital Punishment in the United States since 1887 . Such a shame you can’t choose firing squad anymore. And really, all of these execution methods are […]
Vito Kahlun cita Gramellini che confronta Renzi con Mussolini: Fatta eccezione per Daniela Santanchè, all’accostamento Renzi-Mussolini non si era spinto ancora nessuno”. Ha ragione Massimiliano Gallo che, commentando per The Front Page il Buongiorno di Massimo Gramellini su La Stampa di […]
Casper Ravnsted-Larsen posted North and South: Cyprus can be an omen of a divided EU on Google Plus. My take on the subject: For a start, study languages and travel – that’s where Erasmus should […]
El Pais writes about the book Soldados del Tercer Reich: Así mataban los soldados de Hitler (in Spanish). British and US intelligence eavesdropped on WWII German prisoners of war to collect information about weapons, organization […]
From Google+: “BBC World Have Your Say – 14:21 – Public Has this week changed France? It been a dramatic few days in France, culminating in the death of the gunman suspected of killing seven […]
BBC: What are the competing claims over the Falklands? and discussion on G+ Why would the Falklands suddenly become a priority for Argentina? Does it have anything to do with the government trying to distract its citizens from […]
A story in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza by Agnieszka Domanowska: “They were 15 to 30 years old. Jewish women from the ghetto in Szczuczyn. In August 1941 the locals “borrowed” them for gardening work. […]
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