aenor - Honouree

aenor

almost 8 years ago

Why did the Welsh language survive but Gaelic did not? What makes some languages survive and others fade away? The oldest language in Britain, Welsh, is thriving, but across the Irish sea Gaelic

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almost 8 years ago

Social mobility in Britain It's fashionable to claim that social mobility is dead and "inequality" rules. Inequality and social mobility are two different things. Th

almost 8 years ago

Is Britain a shambolic state or a competent state? Yesterday's police report of the men suspected of the Novichok poisonings of the Skripals and two bystanders was stunning in it's detail. T

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almost 8 years ago

Germany was responsible for Russia turning Soviet I was reading the biography of Winston Churchill by Dr Martin Gilbert, and had got to volume IV (yes, Churchill's life is so full it require

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almost 8 years ago

Is Brtain really that great at spying? Apparently the EU thinks so. According to the Daily Telegraph(

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almost 8 years ago

Countries without allies usually collapse There is a myth that Cortes defeated the Aztec Empire with just 500 men and superior weapons. The only problem is that it isn't true. Cort

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almost 8 years ago

The heatwave and food production Europe has been on fire this summer as the following map from a few days ago shows: !(

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almost 8 years ago

A cautionary tale: how Saudi depleted it's water table You can survive droughts if you have a carefully managed water table. But if you don't manage your water table you end up with no agricultur

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about 8 years ago

Did Obama's Iran deal trigger the European migrant crisis? Let's recap what actually happened. In April 2015 a deal was reached between the Iranian government on the one hand and the EU, USA, Russia

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about 8 years ago

Where does the freedom to say whatever you like in Parliament without being arrested or sued come from? The UK Parliament has something called "Parliamentary Privilege" which allows MPs to say whatever they want in Parliament, without being arr

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about 8 years ago

Did homo-sapiens have an aquatic phase in their evolution? We know that homo-sapiens and our earlier homonid predecesors evolved from woodland apes. The fossil and DNA record confirms this. We also k

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almost 9 years ago

I think we can now buy stuff on Overstock using Steem Overstock was one of the first online retailers to enable payment by Bitcoin. They've now announced a partnership with Shapeshift, allowing

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almost 9 years ago

The following exchanges are going to provide bitcoin cash to anyone who has bitcoin in their account The information has been taken from !bitcoincash.jpg(

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about 9 years ago

Does anyone know why Poloniex's Steem wallet is temporarily disabled? It's been like that for days. Does anyone know why? I am assuming that there is no problem on Steem's side - is there any way the dev team

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about 9 years ago

What are Moonbows? They are lunar rainbows, in other words rainbows created by moonlight, not sunlight. You don't see them in daylight, but in the night sky.

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