august: cleveland county

It has been a month for international politics. It started with ridiculous fans at Euro 2016 and ended with the Brexit referendum. However, I'm still going to soldier on with my list of links that I bookmarked throughout this month. The Bundestag voted to recognize the Armenian genocide earlier this month, which certainly didn't help German-Turkish relations, but was celebrated by Armenians in Germany...

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This has been a banner week for several legislatures in the Western world. First came the sit-in at the US House of Representatives. Unrelated was the UK Prime Minister's Question Time following the Brexit referendum, which was closely followed by Jean-Claude Juncker telling Nigel Farage to leave the European Parliament. Parliamentary and Congressional activities often seem dull, but this week it's been high...

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If you can find Alexanderplatz, you can find a drugstore because that area has two. Pinterest always tries to recommend posts to me about packing tips for a trip to Europe. However, most of these posts seem to be under the impression that Europe is a third world continent without drugstores. Germany, for example, has two successful drugstore chains called DM and Rossmann....

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