O nly about 10 of the 2, 000 types of apples growing in Austria can be found in supermarkets among the polished, pristine fruit usually on display – a sad ratio according to fans of historic varieties...
10.19.2026 Theguardian.com and 2 sites
“First do no harm” is a term often associated with the Hippocratic Oath. Although the association is technically incorrect, the Hippocratic Oath is nonetheless an oath that Doctors adhere to. The Hipp...
10.16.2026 Dirkdeklein.net
Inscribed as aUNESCO World Heritage Sitein 1985, Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula (Sultanahmet) served as the imperial capital of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires. Packed with millennia-old do...
10.16.2026 Memleketimdijital.com
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here . R eading these two excellent books, I could not help being...
10.13.2026 Thecritic.co.uk
When Rudolph Diesel disappeared in 1913, many suspected foul play. The prime suspects were Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II and US oil man John D. Rockefeller. Both would have had reason to want the inventor of the diesel engine dead. The militaristic kaiser was building a diesel-powered submarine fleet. He had no interest in other countries being able to use the technology for similar purposes – particularly Great Britain, the reigning naval power. Though Diesel was German, he had lived as a boy in ...
10.15.2026 Asiatimes.com
Hitler’s Finishing School by British author and historian Paul StJohn Mackintosh tells the chilling true story of Augusta Victoria College in Bexhill, which operated through the 1930s as a grooming gr...
10.18.2026 Theargus.co.uk
Over the Atlantic Ocean: May 4, 1937 Article continues after advertisement Ernst Lehmann had transported some interesting creatures in his time as a zeppelin captain—prize Trakehner horses from Prussi...
10.19.2026 Lithub.com
A U. S. invasion of Canada would be easy, and occupation and neutralization of Canadian opposition would be even easier. As discussed elsewhere, Canada is too militarily weak to resist a U. S. invasio...
10.17.2026 Moderndiplomacy.eu