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An Alphabet of My Likes and Dislikes: “J”
This is a post belonging to a new blogging project — the title is pretty much self-explanatory, I think; the project’s introductory post can be found HERE. Credit for the idea: BeetleyPete. As always, the only thing linking the two items mentioned in this post in my mind is that they both start with the […]
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Favorite Fictional Societies and Ingredients of a Well-Functioning Real Society
24 Festive Tasks: Door 3 – Saturnalia, Task 2: Saturnalia was originally a celebration in remembrance of the “Golden Age” of Graeco-Roman mythology, ruled over by Saturn (Kronos in Greek), and during which humanity existed in a utopian state of innocence, living off nature’s bounty without having to work. Name a book describing / set […]
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Those old cheating dissembling tricks …
“To the office, where all the morning sitting and did discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen’s old cheating dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born.” — Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) March 8, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This (originally from Pepys’s diary of March 8, 1666) was the first […]
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Happy Independence Day – and, my Freedom and Future Library
Related Blog Post: Book Recs Solicited: Freedom and Future Library Reading Project: Freedom and Future Library Could there possibly be a better day on which to finally follow up on my Freedom and Future Library post? Truth be told, I’d been hoping to compile this much faster, but RL threw a major spanner in […]
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Book Recs Solicited: Freedom and Future Library
You’d have to be living under a rock buried somewhere halfway down to the center of the earth in order not to be aware that in recent years our beautiful world has been shaken up by a number of crises the likes of which I, at least, have not experienced in my entire lifetime — […]
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Paris, Frankfurt Try to Grab Lucrative Legal Action From London
As Brexit looms, European cities move to poach corporate litigation from the U.K. Coming soon to Paris: lawsuits en anglais. By Karin Matussek and Gaspard Sebag 7. November 2017, 06:01 MEZ The Royal Courts of Justice in London. Photographer: Alamy For decades, London has been the place to go for big commercial disputes in Europe. […]
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Creation of an English-speaking international Commercial Court in Brussels
The Belgian Federal Government has unveiled its plans for the creation of the Brussels International Business Court (BIBC). The principle of introducing the BIBC has been approved by the Government today.(28.10.2017) The BIBC is to be an English-speaking Belgian State court aiming at attracting Brexit related disputes as well as international commercial litigation. Brussels is indeed […]
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