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Gadhafi sees Switzerland as a mafia that should be dissolved

Extraordinary (Operation) Mincemeat

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Central Asia, back on the map

A Forgotten Core? Mapping the Globality of Central Asia | by Robert A. Saunders

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An attempt to explain Central Asia's reversal of fortune from a world core to a forgotten cul-de-sac to its current, partially global...

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Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

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Gadhafi sees Switzerland as a mafia that should be dissolved

Extraordinary (Operation) Mincemeat

‘If an Englishman can believe in fairies, how the hell can you tell him apart from the savages? The whole system comes crashing down!’

Central Asia, back on the map

Let us play too!

(Losing is fun!)

‘Wallace’s suicide created a lacuna: the guy who wrote in the biggest, boldest type had suddenly silenced himself.’

Mocking laughter of the gods at “the high Eighties”

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