Colonialism is usually seen in the negative light it deserves, but nothing is ever black and white and in certain areas colonialism has left some positive impacts, from food to dare we say, railways! So what’s so special about Cambodian railways? To read about Vietnamese fusion cuisine click here. Cambodia was thus, much like Vietnam…
Introduction Having limited channels on cable, I was thrown into FOX “action movies”. The treat that befell me was one of the many, many poor American cinema adaptations of Robin Hood. As the bad guy started to do his usual crap speech about taxes, the “working class” people of Nottingham began to speak up about…
A man in the Chinese city of Suzhou in Jiangsu province had nearly 20 live worms have been pulled out from his eye after they were believed to have lived inside him for over a year. Images began circulating online showing the white live worms squirming in a bowl after they were removed from Mr….
Neutral …what? What was the only country in the world to have Esperanto as the national language? Neutral Moresnet. Now that the pub trivia is out of the way, let’s get down and dirty with one of the most pointless countries ever to grace God’s green earth. Ever heard of Neutral Moresnet? Probably not, but…
Introduction Is it true that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war? No it is not true, in fact quite a few countries with a McDonalds have gone to war. Where did this theory come from? The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L….
Pfizer famous inventors of what my friend used to describe as “magical weiner medicine” much to the delight of his girlfriend, may now have done something even more important than create a recreational drug for better sex. If what they are saying is true the company have produced a coronavirus vaccine that is 90% effective,…
Left-Wing, Right-Wing: Who wants a purge? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC as she is affectionately called by ultra-left members of the so-called American Democratic Party, has revealed herself to be either the biggest airhead in the entire party or simply an aspiring dictator herself. The architect of the proposed Green New Deal, which President-elect Joe Biden…
Syrian Civil War Background The Kurdish people have suffered much under the various political states that have governed them. The Kurds are a unique ethnic group inhabiting ‘Kurdistan’, a region that spans Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Various attempts to incorporate or remove them from societiesover the centuries has given them a unique identity within the Middle East. The history…