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A True Story

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A True Story

The author of the following article is not known to me. A friend sent it to my wife, who forwarded it to me. It moved me so much that I can’t withhold it from you. Here is the story.*

by Wolfgang Geissler

 

The White Man’s Burden

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The White Man’s Burden

Racism as a Permissible “Dimension”?

For a Better Understanding of the Nature of what was once the Greatest Regulatory Power for the Far East and West


by Wolfgang Geissler
 

In the wake of the emotional afterglow of Anglophilia following my stay in England the year before, my father presented me at Christmas 1960 with the book “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, by the English historian John Robert Seeley about the growth of the British Empire, (published in German as “Die Ausbreitung Englands”).

Scottish Football

Scottish Football

An additional perspective to last week’s blog

by Colin A. Munro 

Ian Murdoch’s reminiscences about English football prompt me to add a Scottish perspective.

The Human Dilemma

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The Human Dilemma

Maybe we made mistakes

by Melanie Sully

When I was a child television was in its infancy. It occupied an obscure part of the room looking like a piece of furniture and was tentatively opened out of a cupboard for a few hours a day.

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