To Ulaanbaatar by London cab
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Across eighteen countries, eleven mountain ranges, and three deserts.
Ed Monckton, Max Firman, and Charles Oliver are but three of the scores participating in this year’s Mongol Rally to raise money for charity. Norumbega talks to Ed Monckton about the journey ahead.
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Ferenc Fejto (1909–2008)The Hungarian-born French intellectual was “a pure product of the Habsburg empire” according to Le Monde, and his History of the Peoples Democracies condemned the Stalinist dictatorships behind the Iron Curtain.
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The Feast of Saint John at the VaticanHis Holiness Pope Benedict XVI receives His Most Eminent Highness Frà Matthew Festing, the Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta.
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Norumbega No. 7 — June 30, 2008
The life & death of The European
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An idea before its time or the mad dream of a master swindler?
Born of the infamous Robert Maxwell, The European had a rocky start and a muddled history. Why, as European institutions only grew in importance, did “Europe’s national newspaper” fail?
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The Kirchners vs. the Argentine nationArgentina enters its third straight month of crisis as the presidential couple refuse to back down in the face of spreading farm protests over excessive export taxation.
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G. K. Chesterton views the sunriseWhen Plain Folk, such as you or I,
See the Sun sinking in the sky, We think it is the Setting Sun, But Mr. Gilbert Chesterton Is not so easily misled. … |
Sleek new design for Berlin State OperaFacing a massive overhaul and rebuilding of its main hall and auditorium, Berlin’s opera has awarded prizes to three entries from its architectural competition.
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Norumbega No. 6 — June 2, 2008
Dehumanizing the Enemy
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Mass democracy, mass warfare,
mass barbarism. The twentieth century was the most democratic and the bloodiest; these two factors are inextricably linked. Since the First World War we have witnessed the dehumanization of the enemy and the loosening of restraints upon conduct during war.
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End of the Line for
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German Poet Calls for NATO ‘Day of Shame’Poet Peter Handke, widely praised for his recent collection “Die Morawische Nacht”, has proposed that March 24 be set aside as a day of shame in remembrance of the 1999 Serbia war.
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Quebec affirms: Crucifix shall remainThe parliament of Quebec have unanimously rejected a commission’s proposal that the crucifix above the Speaker’s Chair in the National Assembly be removed.
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What To Do When You Find a Hohenzollern in Your Study
A brief guide for the uninitiated.
Norumbega No. 5 — May 12, 2008
The Other Modern
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An architecture of continuity
While most postwar architecture plunged into the dismal depths of modernism, under Francisco Franco, the architect Luis Moya showed that there is indeed another way: architecture as a continuation of history rather than a rejection of history.
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The Right takes Rome:
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The Café Society of Ferenc MolnarThe Café Central has been a meeting place for Budapest’s literary elite since it opened in 1887.
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Norumbega No. 4 — April 28, 2008
Veuillot: Icon and Iconoclast
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A maligned and forgotten essayist, satirist, devotional writer, and newspaper editor
Louis Veuillot was the man whom Pope St. Pius X called a model for the Catholic laity, writes Dr. John Rao.
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61-year Rule of the Colorados EndsThe election of a socialist bishop as President of Paraguay brings to an end over six decades of conservative rule.
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A Classical Row of TownhousesDe la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists have won an award from their Almeria Row townhouses in Florida.
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Victory for the Italian Right
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Mr. Berlusconi’s coalition has won an historic victory for the Italian Right: Forza Italia and the Alleanza Nazionale have merged, the Lega Nord is on board, and for the first time in the post-war era, no Communist Party has even a single seat in parliament.
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The Loyal Daughter and the Wayward SonTwo very different royals — Princess Alessandra Borghese of the old Roman family, and Prince Emmanuel Filiberto of the House of Savoy — ran for parliament in 2008.
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Mrs. Berlusconi: It’s Time to End ItalyKlemens von Metternich’s remark that Italy is little more than “a geographic expression” finds a perhaps unlikely supporter in the wife of the Prime Minister-elect.
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The Installation of Frà Freddie Crichton-StuartThe Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Frà Matthew Festing, returns home to install the new Grand Prior of England, Frà Freddie Crichton-Stuart.
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