Ceuta’s place in history
Brian Ulrich writes a brief history of Ceuta. What’s more, Ceuta has historically been a gateway to Europe rather than one to Africa. As noted above, the city was difficult to take, but even after it...
View ArticleBirthday child
Today marks the first anniversary of A Few Euros More*. While I don’t think it’s reached its full potential, it turned into a pretty good blog, and I think it was well worth the effort. *You might have...
View ArticleGeoffrey Chaucer interview
normblog: The normblog profile 142: Geoffrey Chaucer What would you do with the UN? > Ich wolde heale the grete schisme bitwene Rome and Avignon.
View ArticleGoogle news without Belgian news
The Belgian court of Justice has ordered Google News to remove all feeds of Belgian newspapers and journalists. This news was broken by Chilling Effects: …to withdraw the articles, photographs and...
View ArticleSpam filtration
Regular commenters may have noticed that a disturbingly large percentage of their comments have been held as spam. This issue should now be resolved. For the information of other Akismet/MT users, the...
View ArticleIndigo – pan-European proto-print magazine
The first issue of a new pan European magazine – Indigo – is available online in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Polish, and Italian. According to the German VISDP magazine, Indigo’s...
View ArticleBunkers of the DDR
British urban-exploration geeks report on their tour of a wealth of cold-war and Nazi bunkers in the former East Germany back in 2003. Thrilling and uncomfortable stuff—they were the first to revisit...
View ArticleTesting twitter liveblogging to afem.
8:06:53 PM: OK, let’s see if the updates are included automatically.
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