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Book Public: 'The Scrapbook' by Heather Clark

Texas Public Radio · June 20, 2025

The Scrapbook is a novel that is a modern-day love story in the shadow of German history—a Germany of artists, philosophers, virtuosos—and World War II. At the fore of it all, we meet Anna O’Brien, a young woman who is a student at Harvard. She...

Book Review: The Precarious Dance of Humans and Microbes

The Good Men Project - California · June 21, 2025

In 1676, Dutch fabric merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek held a magnifying glass to a sample of rainwater and saw a slew of tiny creatures squirming around. The first to observe such microscopic beings, he named them animalcules, later finding them...

Germans and Italians want arms ban on Israel, poll shows

The National News ·

Germans and Italians overwhelmingly back ending arms sales to Israel if humanitarian law is not respected in Gaza, an opinion poll suggests. The research carried out by advocacy group Eko also reveals that citizens of the two countries believe the...

Local Surfers Aggressively Crashed a German Surf Contest in France

The Inertia - California · June 20, 2025

Local surfers gave university competitors at the German contest a course in localism. Photo: Screenshot French freesurfers ignored lifeguards’ commands and paddled out into the middle of Germany’s official university surfing championships in...

Publishers vs platforms: is the legal disconnect tenable?

ICLG ·

A ruling by the Brazil Supreme Court to treat social media as publishers rather than platforms in terms o... A ruling by the Brazil Supreme Court to treat social media as publishers rather than platforms in terms of liability for their content...

Letters: Eisenhower's words against book-burning have resonance today

The Advocate - Louisiana · June 21, 2025

“Don't join the book burners.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953. Combustion is feeble compared to the tools of today’s information arsonists. Now that the Republican war on science has gone nuclear, our vocabulary needs a...

50th anniversary book on Kilbride Farm Simmentals

Farming Life · June 21, 2025

Well known cattle breeder Billy Robson has written a book marking the 50th anniversary of Kilbride Farm Simmentals, with the profits going to Cancer Research. Billy Robson grew up on the home farm at Ballyhamage with pedigree dairy shorthorn and...

Germany tops EU tariff burden rankings as trade deadline threatens US$304B hit

TechHQ · June 19, 2025

Germany’s projected EU tariff burden of $81.5 billion leads to potential European exposure. Tech and pharma in 10 EU countries face combined $271.2 billion in potential tariffs As the July 9 deadline approaches for renewed US-EU trade...

Liverpool book medical for target as Arne Slot ready to approve £75m transfers

Daily Star · June 21, 2025

Liverpool have officially announced the signing of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, but their summer transfer window activity is far from complete. The German international has joined in a £116million deal, yet Liverpool's spending spree...

Preview: Germany U21s vs Italy U21s - prediction, team news, lineups

Sports Mole ·

Sports Mole previews Sunday's European Under-21s Championship clash between Germany Under-21s and Italy Under-21s, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Having emerged from the group phase with a flawless record, Germany Under-21s...

Survivor of Nazis leaves trove of first editions to charity

The Times ·

For 50 years Mary Davidson has been organising book sales for Christian Aid in Edinburgh. Unpacking gifts of unwanted encyclopaedias and long-forgotten novels has become an annual ritual, though she always lives in hope of finding a literary...

The Dawn Treader Book Shop: Ann Arbor’s ‘multi-generational shop’

The Michigan Daily · June 20, 2025

In an exploration of Ann Arbor’s robust and diverse literary scene, The Michigan Daily’s Business beat spoke with seven downtown bookstores. Each article in ‘The literary culture of downtown Ann Arbor’ project aims to capture each store’s unique...

Italian late nights, French discipline, German bed-sharing: five UK writers try to parent like the Europeans

The Guardian · June 21, 2025

‘A 7.30pm dinner on a school night is madness’ Stuart Heritage embraces Italian family life “Gender roles have not changed very much,” says Manuela Naldini, professor of sociology of the family at University of Turin, of the Italian method of...

Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond villain Hugo Drax uncovered by German fans

Cambridge News · June 21, 2025

Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond novels, was deeply involved in covert operations during World War II as a naval intelligence officer, according to MailOnline. The author played a pivotal role in orchestrating classified missions and...

'The Director' and the damned legacy of Pabst

Independent Australia ·

Kehlmann’s haunting novel 'The Director' uses Austrian filmmaker GW Pabst’s story during the Third Reich to ask how far we’ll go to save our skins — whether back in Nazi Germany or as bombs fall on Iran, writes Dr Rosemary Sorensen. HOW MUCH do...

Hitler is still present in German stained-glass windows

Christian Network Europe ·

The German dictator Adolf Hitler is still to be seen as a hero in several churches. Historian Dr. Michael Kuderna counts at least a dozen pictures of the man, according to his new book. Pictures of the Nazi dictator can still be seen in at least...

Anastasia Fechner’s New Book Making Waves On Amazon

Daily Independent · June 21, 2025

1 Today, just a few weeks after its recent release on Amazon, Hammer Point Reloaded Volume 1&2, the new book by Nigerian-born Germany-based motivational speaker and writer Dr. Anastasia Fechner, is acclaimed to be making significant waves. The...

1959 Fiat 103D Select Restoration

Team-BHP ·

Re: MPR 4142, 1959 Fiat 103D Select Restoration. After a long time here are some updates that happen in the back ground. Car has been running nice barring few niggles Since I run the car in local county mostly I decided to print the stencil font...

What the Psalmist Meant

Beliefnet - Virginia ·

Harold Kushner's best-selling "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" established his reputation as a rabbi with appeal for both Jews and non-Jews. His most recent book, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Knopf, 2003), is an in-depth exploration of the...

Media: Bundeswehr Identifies Russia As An "existential Threat" To Germany

Charter 97 ·

2 Journalists revealed the details of the strategic document of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. In an internal strategic document, the German Armed Forces warn of the danger from Russia to both Germany and Europe as a whole....