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2 hours ago · “No dogs, no disease.” Invisible Dogs toys with, and is best read in the light of, a series of mid-century writers’ travel diaries. Boyle says as much in an afterword, talking of an era “when Western writers were seen as influencers and deployed overseas as soft power”.
1 day ago · Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
2 hours ago · It has a mainly continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km 2 (92,046 sq mi) with a population of 19 million people (2023). Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, empties into the Danube Delta in the southeast of the country.
1 day ago · The translations era was followed by two centuries of splendid original thinking and contributions, and is known as the "golden age" of Islamic science. This so-called "golden age" is supposed to have lasted from the end of the ninth to the end of the eleventh century. The era after this period is conventionally known as the "age of decline".
1 day ago · 7 *puts historian's hat on* "Metropolis" is also a reflection of the traditional German attitude toward politics in the 1920s. Simply put, not a fan. There's a long-running trope among German intellectuals and statesmen that partisan politics is inherently foreign to the spirit of the country, that the German Volk is meant to be an organic whole, and the talk of a "mediator" directly reflected ...