panel on Monday approved Iraq’s plan to receive oil-export payments in Europe’s single currency after Baghdad decided to move the start date back a week. 64). They’re all members of the communist U.N.? And next is; world war three. A mutual Christian and Muslim genocide. Russia, C...
The only question here is how long it will take things to settle down to some sort of normality. No, I'm thinking more of what will happen to Britain in the decades ahead. Geopolitics is a little trickier than it used to be. Immediately following Bretton Woods, the end of WW2 and ...
No, I'm thinking more of what will happen to Britain in the decades ahead. Geopolitics is a little trickier than it used to be. Immediately following Bretton Woods, the end of WW2 and the exploding of two nuclear weapons in Japan, American might and money was the only game in town. Th...
contributing massively to the country’s international trade during medieval times. The town’s ideal location along Lincolnshire’s coastline and its vast array of succeeding inland waterways prospered trade through the North Sea from mainland Europe. This important history gives Boston its unique moder...
Of interest is that the 20 of us are assigned bunks together in a squad bay with Sargent Thomas. Normally, the new recruits end up assigned to the ancient wooden WW2 barracks of Fort Knox for their training. “This is interesting,” I think as we are being kept as a separate group ...
Towards the end of the war, as Truman Aid and International Red Aid helped Europe rebuild, many corporations in Cuba would either be consumed by bigger British competitors or simply move across the Pond for more opportunities in a larger market. Bernays sensed this movement, and decided that ...
Last summer, big public buildings in Europe like airports were sweltering hot, with either no A/C or the thermostat was turned way up. This picture is at the gate in the Barcelona airport in October. Note the heat and humidity too. Photo: Keith Weiner In America, they were air conditione...
girdle round the Earth in order to drag corpses from the trenches at Verdun is simply fascinating. Summerskill plainly found his obsession so odd, so unique, that no publisher would touch it. He published it himself, in numbers so tiny that I doubt there are three copies left in Europe. ...
Take control of new states, secure forts and railways to increase your resources, and lead reinforcements sent over from Europe. Discover or relive the experience of the original game "The Bluecoats North and South", in single or two-player mode, with this updated version featuring redesigned ...
It is not until after WW2, which itself augmented the Civil War story by proclaiming both sides to be reconciled against a common enemy, that the Reds start to get their due in fiction, with works such as The Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star presenting them as humans, and more ...