Friday, August 25, 2017

A Sasquatch's Dozen, And A Bit More

First, the Sasquatch's dozen:

Austria beefs up security at their border with Italy.

A German economist predicts the collapse of the E.U.

In Iraq, Tal Afar matters.

In Spain, police bust a Nigerian sex slavery operation.

ISIS threatens the Pope.

ISIS uses youngsters in their propaganda.

In Britain, a fake Syrian who avoided deportation six times is sentenced for murder.

"The old Western disease"  (I think it might be called "oikophobia".)

President Trump "is winning the statue war".

Could there be (Are you sitting down?) a President Al Franken?  (intermediate source)

South Carolina's governor blocks state money from going to abortion clinics.  (intermediate source)

To finish the dozen, I think this article might be satirical - but all too believable these days.

For a bit more:

I ran across this item yesterday after I finished my post.  A 3,700-year-old tablet found in Iraq appears to show that Babylonians used trigonometry about 1,500 years before the Greeks did.  This means that if you had hard time with high school trig, you've been blaming the wrong civilization.

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