Since seizing Palmyra from government forces in May, Islamic State fighters have destroyed some of the most beautiful and historically significant monuments in the sprawling oasis city in Syria’s central desert, one of the world’s most renowned archaeological sites. The latest to fall was the triple arch built by the Romans to celebrate a victory over the […]
Les mer»I Stavanger Aftenblad (bak betalingsmur) blir Susan Abulhawa hun bedt om å kommentere påstanden om at hun er en-dimensjonal i sin beskrivelse av israelere, at de ofte er brutale og u-empatiske: Jeg avviser ideen om at en bok skrevet om palestinere er nødt til å ha sympatiske figurer. Jeg synes det er en urettferdig innvending. […]
Les mer»Lørdag 10 oktober skal kurdere og venstreorienterte demonstrere i Ankara mot eskalering av volden. Da eksploderer to bomber like efter hinanden. Pt er 86 meldt drept og 186 såret. Tyrkia er også på vej ind i krigen, denne gang ikke lavintesitetskrigen mellom PKK og Ankara, men den krigen som IS blåser til. Jihadistene ønsker at […]
Les mer»The Bulletins de la Grande armée: 21st Bulletin, 28 October, 1806, Berlin «Yesterday, the 27th, the Emperor made a solemn entrance into Berlin. He was accompanied by the Prince de Neufchatel, the marshals Davout and Augereau, his Grand maréchal du Palais [Duroc], his Grand-écuyer and his ADCs. Marshal Lefebvre led the march with the imperial […]
Les mer»A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. We should every night […]
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