Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.
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A group in Holland, responding to the Dutch ban on indoor smoking, has established a "church" whose primary sacrament is smoking.
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William A. Christian, Jr., an eminent but non-academically-affiliated historian, is a fellow there. I am very curious...
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One of the weirdest news stories I've read in some time. Apparently some criminal gangs are smuggling dwarves in duffel bags into the luggage compartment of long-haul buses, where they loot the other passengers' bags.
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The Trust buys up historic, umm, landmarks and rehabs them into vacation rentals. Sounds very cool. Most, but not all locations are in the UK. Anyone tried this?
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Via the AHA blogs (blogs.historians.org). A collection of documents related to KGB activities in the Baltic states has now been put online by a consortium based in Lithuania.
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O.K.! So, she's hot. But besides that, she has a sense of humor, and this is hilarious. Alexandra describes this single as "a very deep and reflecting song about my favourite bodypart. Haha." Try to pay attention to the lyrics, they're funny.
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Very likely I'm the only person on Clipmarks quite geeky enough to want to know about this, but here you go. It's a massive bibliography of full-text neo-Latin sources, apparently mostly 15th- and 16th-century published works. My Latin's pretty rusty but
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The first sentence in English: "Webmasters who wind up in the wrong German courthouse will find themselves liable for tirades posted by strangers on their pages, even if the comments are overlooked or immediately deleted."
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498 terror attacks were carried out across Europe in 2006. One, which failed, was by an Islamist organization. But Islamist terror is still a major issue. Islamist groups aim at high civilian fatalities, whereas most of the cases listed here were nonletha
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In Germany, a group of non-religious immigrants from Muslims countries, sick of being classed as "Muslims" and being told that Muslim authorities speak for them, organize to form the "Central Council of Ex-Muslims." This is awkward for the government, wh
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Reminiscent of the anti-globalization riots in Genoa and elsewhere about ten years ago. Sounds like a mess.
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A brief report in Ode Magazine on a study by Dutch sociologist of religion Hijme Stoffels suggests that one in six Dutch pastors questions or denies the existence of God. Doubts appear to increase with age. I couldn't find anything more on this in English
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A brief report on Geert Wilders, the public face of the Dutch Freedom Party, which has built its appeal on widespread and growing Dutch revulsion against Islamic separatism, exceptionalism, and extremism in Europe. Key quote: "Islam is the problem."
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The German newsweekly Spiegel interviews a jihadi working for the al-Qaeda-affiliated "Global Islamic Media Front" in Germany. Short text, link to video. In German.
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A disturbing story about the discovery of a potentially very large neo-Nazi terror network with roots within the Belgian military.
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