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It's funny - I never felt particularly at home in Oz, and to be honest, while I definitely feel a strong attachment to the United Kingdom, it's never quite made me feel like I did when I lived in Germany. There was a hope and feeling of freedom I didn't have elsewhere.
I always feel a bit more alive when I'm in Germany, and I've never worked out why - even when I was working full-time in Stuttgart. Is it a cultural thing? A geographic thing? Why does the place capture me so?
I am defined by my use of words, and it's odd that I find myself most at home when I'm in a country where I'm still learning the language, and adapting to the culture. Is it because I subconsciously feel like I have the chance to start again? Anyway, I'm rambling...
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If you’ve been following, you can’t help but notice I’ve been enjoying Vienna. There’s one lady you can't escape when you visit & that’s okay, because she’s one of the most interesting women in European history. Here’s 10 things to know about Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress.
1. She was the only Holy Roman Empress in her own right, and they changed the laws to make it so. Maria Theresa was born to HRE Charles VI in 1717, and he had previously issued what was called the ‘Pragmatic Sanction’ to make her heir and keep the Habsburg line.
2. Her coming to the throne as Holy Roman Empress started a war. Many powers weren’t happy with a woman assuming the throne, citing the ancient Frankish ‘Salic’ law that forbid the throne being passed to a woman. Most of Europe became involved in the conflict, lasting 8 years.
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Good response to my thread about Vienna coffee culture (linked to in this tweet), so here's the Top 5 reasons to get a cheap flight & check out their cafes...
5. You are encouraged to sit and read. All cafes will have at least the national & the odd international paper. Many have a whole bunch of magazines in a whole bunch of languages. They want you to sit there all day, taking in current affairs.
4. The food is damn good. In addition to the famous cakes and pastries, any cafe worth its salt will do a range of small snack dishes - some do substantial mains. You won't go hungry.
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The vast majority of British pub food wouldn't be possible without five hundred years of migration, trade and, yes, interaction with other races.
Potatoes, that absolute standard? They arrived in England only at the end of the 16th century from the New World It took decades for them to become a trusted staple - Europeans, including Britons, thought them poisonous.
You could theoretically make a passable gravy without ingredients available outside the British Isles - you have sage, butter and beef stock - but anything tastier than that would require interaction with spice markets bringing in ingredients from far beyond the Continent.
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So the Heartbeat ban override in Ohio failed. That’s good - for basically one hot moment. But something even worse happened. Let me explain why.
The House overrode, but the Senate was one vote shy. That also means there is *more* than enough people supporting it to pass it easily next year. And next year they don't need an override because gov elect Dewine already promised to sign it.
This basically delayed things for a few months, but it will be back. It always comes back.
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Funny, I never heard anyone before 2016 say how awful their EU life was. With EUropean holidays, cheap flights, relaxed regs on bringing beers, wines, spirits & cigarettes on booze cruises over to Calais, our clean beaches, our food standards & improved working conditions.
Then of course was the freedom to plan a retirement in a warmer climate, to choose a job in another country without the hassle of visas and work permits. The UK had low unemployment and never once did I see any protesting to leave the EU.
Then one day, some rich bastards, who were worried about the EU crackdown on offshore bank accounts and tax evasion, convinced half the country that the EU was bad, a dictatorship, unelected and making our lives a misery.
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This Day in Labor History: July 9, 1948. The International Labour Organization signed The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention. The U.S. never ratifies it. Let's talk about international labor standards and how ILO conventions can guide us.
The International Labour Organization came to be in 1919 as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. As the U.S. never ratified that treaty, it did not join the ILO until 1934.
The ILO became significantly more important after World War II as it became closely associated with the United Nations. The UN asked the ILO to create a series of conventions immediately after the war, making the request official in 1947.
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Home
no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
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your breath

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only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
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Went to Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan today. Official population at 53,967, according to @UNHCR as of February 2018. All Syrian #refugees.

In many ways it was not what I expected.
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At the same time, the harshness of the setting — a hardscrabble, sprawling 15 square km patch, scratched, etched and stretched out of endless rolling desert.

The perimeter was equally formidable, with security fencing, official patrols, check points and razor wire.
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