Tag: European Union

YOU COULDN’T HAKE THIS UP

Norwegian fishermen caught an American nuclear submarine in its net. A fishing vessel from Tromso snared 200kg of halibut and 7,800 tons of American submarine A nuclear-powered US submarine got tangled up in a fishing net when cruising off the northern coast of Norway, giving one local fisherman […]

THE DAM BUSTERS OF BRUSSELS

At the cost of hundreds of lives, luckless Spain alone has removed more barriers (108) in 2021 than all the other European countries combined in 2020 (101). Three countries (Portugal, Montenegro, and Slovakia) recorded their first-ever removals.

The Great (Monkey) Escape

FREE PRESS Residents of a town in South Carolina have been warned to avoid potentially dangerous infected (by scientists) monkeys after 40 animals made a daring escape from a nearby research facility. The monkeys somehow made it out of the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, about […]

Alexander the Great

FREE MEDIA: Alexander the Great, born in 356 BCE in Pella, the capital of Macedonia, was one of history’s most renowned military leaders. Tutored by Aristotle and trained in the art of warfare by his father, King Philip II, Alexander became king at the age of 20 after […]

The World’s Greatest Ride by Far

​​If you have already travelled or plan to set off on an unforgettable Trans-Siberian journey, or at least have an understanding of what Siberia and wild Russian taiga are like, you can assume the severe conditions the Trans-Siberian railway construction was held in.

Visionaries who Tried to Warn the World

I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modify into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World.;  ~ From a letter to George Orwell, dated 21 October 1949. From Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith; Harper & Row, 1969.