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The dream of an US military base in Poland seems one step closer to reality: President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering a permanent military presence in Poland, something the Eastern European …
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The Polish Enigma
Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famous code breaker and one of the fathers of the computer, Alan (“The Imitation Game”, pretty good movie) writes about a very little known …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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ANZAC Day repost: Dreams from my Grandfather at the Bridge Too Far
Note: I have originally published this long post a year and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. Today …
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Happy Anzac Day from Catherine Deveny
With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …
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Syria: There is no happy endings
The world stands poised on the edge of an abyss, just a few wrong moves away from another world war, all over a large and unattractive expanse of sand on …
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