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Generation X are disappearing

Hugo Rifkind had an article in The Times today about being a Xennial (too old to be a Millennial, too

I recently discovered Harry Turtledove’s “Hellenic Traders” series (written under the pseudonym Turteltaub). The four books follow two cousins from

I’ve written about Howe and Strauss’s Generations before. It’s basically a theory that there are four basic types of generations

I got the wonderful Danish TV series Matador (“Monopoly”, as in the board game) on DVD for Christmas. It follows

The subject Originally uploaded by Simon Collison To what extent is Britain (or the British Isles) the same kind of

Jeg opdagede rent tilfældigt, at Russerne synger 2005 – også kendt som Russangbogen – ligger på nettet i PDF-format. Jeg

Angel sculpture, Martyrs’ Square 1 Originally uploaded by historic.brussels ‘Writing of the European revolutions of 1848, for instance, one historian

Twin Towers Originally uploaded by wstera2 It’s now exactly ten years ago that the first plane crashed into the Twin

I think I mentioned that we spent last week in Keith with the rest of Phyllis’ family. We drove up

The kids’ ancestry Originally uploaded by viralbus Dougie, my father-in-law, has always been a bit of a Scottish nationalist, and