Wedding ceremonies are also much more important and formal in the USA. In most of Europe it is limited to an informal family gathering (usually at the bride or groom's parental home). Marriage traditions do vary considerably between European countries, and even more between families. But in a...
What came to mind was not Babel’s clever, witty Jewish bandits, but his famous observation in his text “Odessa” that residents of this Black Sea port say “two big differences”.9 Odessans might say, for example, “Kyiv and Odessa are two big differences” instead of the standard “...
CYP2D6 gene duplications are rare in Central European populations, such as Germans (1.3%), Austrians (1.6%) and Hungarians (1.8%), but considerably higher in both Northern and Southern European groups, such as Finnish (4.3%), Spanish (3.5%), Greek (6%) and Turkish (5.6%) (Petrović ...