Can the Middle East migrant crisis be contained?

The migrant crisis has reached an acute  state in Greece and Europe for more than one year now. Millions of people

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Antioquia, Colombia

Antioquia is one of the nine states (or departments) of Colombia, the beautiful South American country. Its capital is the city

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Ο εμφύλιος πόλεμος του ελληνικού ποδοσφαίρου

Το βράδυ της 13 Φεβρουαρίου 2016 έγινε στο Ολυμπιακό Στάδιο της Αθήνας ένας ποδοσφαιρικός αγώνας, στον οποίο η ΑΕΚ, νεοφώτιστη

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis elected leader of Greece’s “New Democracy” party

Yesterday is a day to be marked on the modern Greek political calendar. It may be a very important day.

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First day of the year 2016 – Lunch

  The day started with snow on the ground and the trees, the bushes, the table, the umbrella, and so

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Return to the sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto

Motoi Yamamoto was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1966 and received his B.A. from Kanazawa College of Art in 1995.

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Murakami’s Oysters

  Haruki Murakami, by danetta This is a post about oysters and the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. In a speech

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Eucken and Husserl: Arguments for just war

Introduction In the context of a MOOC I am taking on the First World War and Modern Philosophy, I read

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On “Absolute” and “Total” War

Introduction In the context of an online course I am taking, I recently read von Clausewitz’s “On War” and from

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Frankenstein Junior, a movie by Mel Brooks

This is a great comedy, made by Mel Brooks in 1974, quite possibly his best movie. The hero, Dr. Frederick

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