Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
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The Fly Swat
Posted on January 9, 2015
It all started with a fly swat. In the years following Napoleon’s demise in France, the last of the Bourbon Dynasty desperately tried to hold on to power. Charles X...
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The Dangers of Passive Power
Posted on June 13, 2014
Even before Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate, Congress had grown weary of the Vietnam War. Shortly after he was reelected in November of 1973, Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment by...
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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Wither the Euro
Posted on November 3, 2011
Either the Greeks should pull out of the Euro or the Europeans should kick them out. That is how I look at the current debt crisis that has hit the...
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Greece: Beginning and Ends
Posted on May 11, 2010
A little more than 2300 years ago, Alexander the Great rampaged out of Greece into Asia Minor, and Greek civilization reached its largest sphere of influence. A few centuries later,...
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