(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 03/01/21 8:54 am)
Some 40 years ago my three young children were challenged to line up at an appointed time and sing to me one of my favorite songs: "America the Beautiful." If they all performed it flawless
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(Paul Preston, -UK, 03/01/21 4:15 am)
In response to John E's question, there is no way to know exactly what the public opinion impact of the Calvo Sotelo murder was. It took place merely four days before a coup that was long in the
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(Timothy Ashby, -Spain, 03/01/21 3:47 am)
A few decades ago I visited Bariloche, in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, a charmingly ersatz Bavarian village that had an influx of "Austrians" after WWII.
I had a friendly conv
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(Francisco Ramirez, USA, 02/28/21 12:00 pm)
John E asked about "faux" European hamlets in the US. How about Solvang in Southern California for the "Danish look"?
Also for the film Sideways and the rise of Pin
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(Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, USA, 02/28/21 3:56 am)
I thought that Eugenio Battaglia would be interested in this. It was sent to me and I have no idea about the publication--nor do I speak Italian! But given how old Iran is, it would not surprise me
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(David Duggan, USA, 02/28/21 3:25 am)
A year ago, my Friday night entertainment was to go to art gallery openings around Chicago. Up-and-coming neighborhoods like Pilsen, River West and Bridgeport were chock full of galleries and attendin
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(John Eipper, USA, 02/27/21 7:16 am)
Ric Mauricio writes:
To answer John E's question, yes, CFPs are "sworn in" to having a fiduciary duty to their clients. All of the CFPs within my sphere
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(Francisco Wong-Diaz, USA, 02/27/21 3:46 am)
I would like to reiterate that my professional and personal approach reflects multi-variable analysis of causation.
For John E to subsume the present topic of comparative revolutions to a dyadi
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(Paul Preston, -UK, 02/27/21 3:24 am)
In response to Francisco Wong-Díaz (February 25th), the planning for the military uprising of July 1936 began in the afternoon of 14 April 1931, the day the Second Republic was established. It
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(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 02/26/21 4:05 am)
Our esteemed editor asked: "Had Hitler perished in the trenches like millions of others, would there have been a Nazi Germany?" (See Francisco Wong-Díaz, February 25th.)
My ans
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