Blogs about Countries, states, towns, etc.
20 blogs about Countries, states, towns, etc..
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Africa Is a Country
…a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left.
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Hopium kills but hope seeds Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory. A Harris-Walz campaign sign is seen through a waving Trump flag Nov. 4, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. © Matt Smith via Shutterstock. In 2004, I lived in Madison, …
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caribbeansignal.com
Separating signal from noise.
By Amit Uttamchandani. 🇧🇧 More infoUpdated
Barbados Homicide Statistics January to October 2024 As of October 31, there have been at least 43 homicides in Barbados between January 1 and October 31, marking a 7.5% increase over the previous January-to-September period in 2024. For the same period last …
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Constitutionally Speaking
By Pierre de Vos. 🇿🇦 More infoUpdated
Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities Even when the legal arguments in such lawfare cases are weak or absurd, the litigation itself can be of value to litigants who seek to utilise the court hearings to air a litany of real …
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Dutch Genealogy
Find your ancestors from the Netherlands.
By Yvette Hoitink. 🇳🇱 More infoUpdated
Map of the Week – Tourist Map of Drenthe, 1933 This week we are looking at a map of Drenthe in 1933. It is a tourist map from Sleeswijk’s pocket atlas for the Netherlands for walkers, bicyclists, and automobile drivers, made in 1933. The whole …
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EJIL: Talk!
Blog of the European Journal of International Law.
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On My Way Out – Advice to Early Career Scholars VIII: Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps On my way out? It appears, you might be thinking, to be a very long and winding way, and I cannot even promise that this is the last instalment…. Still, for what it is worth, …
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European studies blog
Discover the British Library's extensive collections from continental Europe and read news and views on European culture and affairs.
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A Lifeline of Books: The British Library and Polish Exiles On 15 November we are hosting a conference on European Political exiles and émigrés in Britain. This is one of a series of blog posts on the same topic. Conference details can be found here. …
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Europe by Rail | The Definitive Guide
Exploring Europe by rail is easy and enjoyable.
By Nicky Gardner, Susanne Kries. 🇩🇪 More infoUpdated
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Freewheeling France
Cycling in France and velotourisme including bike routes, cycling books and information on French cycling holidays.
By Lyn. 🇫🇷 More infoUpdated
2025 Tour de France program and race guide The official Tour de France race guide ALWAYS SELLS OUT. It has all the info you need to follow the Tour de France. Here is how to find it.
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Frog in a Well
The primary purpose … is to promote more communication between those studying and researching in places like the United States with those in other places such as Japan.
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I Wanna be Bob Dylan A fun book to draw from when teaching modern Japan is Soeda Azembo and Michael Lewis, A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan ( London: Routledge, 2009). You can’t …
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John Quiggin
Commentary on Australian and world events from a socialist and democratic viewpoint.
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Armistice Day The Great War continues, more than 100 years later Yesterday was November 11, the anniversary of the armistice which ended fighting on the Western Front of what was then called the Great War. It’s always …
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Melbourne on Transit
A blog about the service aspects of public transport in Melbourne, Australia.
By Peter Parker. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
UN 191: Route 603, 604 & 605 reform this Sunday It's been on and off again but finally it's happening. This weekend in fact. I'm talking about reforms to the 603, 604 and 605 in Melbourne's inner south-east, which you can read about on the …
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Montreal City Weblog
Threatening national cohesion since 1847!
By Kate Mcdonnel. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
New York Post on Laliberté’s mansion The New York Post notes that Guy Laliberté’s Outremont mansion is up for sale.
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Niklas's blog
By Niklas Pivic. 🇸🇪 More infoUpdated
The state of Swedish right-wing politics in October 2024 The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 Table of contents Jimmie Åkesson invited the leader of an organised crime network and at least one antisemite and racist …
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Palestine Chronicle LIVE BLOG
…a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the general public by providing a forum that strives to highlight issues of relevance to human rights, national struggles, freedom and democracy….
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‘Death Ambushes’ – Resistance Roundup – Day 404 By Palestine Chronicle Staff Today’s killing of seven Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon was not the only bad news for the Israeli army, which is fighting, and struggling at two major war fronts. The Al-Qassam …
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Pants On Fire
The questionable activities of William J. Denby and his band of grifters in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
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Deputy Doug Goes to Council There was a City of Kawartha Lakes Special Council Meeting (2025 Budget Edition) last night, and while I don't always watch council meetings, I do when they're budget-related, because budget-related meetings ALWAYS bring out the …
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The Scholar's Stage
A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.
By Tanner Greer. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump prefers to keep his …
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Southeast Asia construction, transport, and infrastructure
Transport and urban development in Southeast Asia.
By James Clark. 🇻🇳 More infoUpdated
Kota Kinabalu – Kudat Railway Kota Kinabalu-Kudat rail project is a proposed railway connecting the capital of Sabah to the northern tip of Borneo. The 175km railway would be used for transporting agricultural products from Kudat to Kota Kinabalu, and …
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Taiwan Quest
A blog about moving to Taiwan in 2023.
By Shi Zhen-Kang. 🇹🇼 More infoUpdated
Driving School Diaries, Part II I was told to be at my first driving class 10 minutes early. In the rush to beat traffic, I forgot to apply antiperspirant for perhaps the first time in Taiwan. Then, I was unable …
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TokyoDev | Articles
Helping international software developers start and grow their career in Japan.
By Paul McMahon. 🇯🇵 More infoUpdated
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery [There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/06/tech/japan-tech-firms-labor-shortage/), and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a …
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Victorian Paris
Life in 19th Century Paris.
By Iva Polanski. More infoUpdated
From Diligence to High-Speed Trains: Paris to Lille Then and Now The railway brought humanity out of isolation by reducing both time and effort of travel Picture Paris in the early 1830s: a city of narrow, winding streets, where the fastest way to travel was by …