Irish Class, October 24, 2016 Rang Gaeilge, 24ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2016
Seanfhocal

Is fearr filleadh as lár an áthe ná bá sa tuile.Better to turn back at the middle of the ford than to drown in the flood.Is cuimhin liom an t-amhrán Waist Deep in the Big Muddy le Pete Seeger Bíonn súil le muir ach ní bhíonn súil le cill.There ( Read more... )

Irish Class, February 22, 2016 Rang Gaeilge, 22ú lá mí Feabhra 2016
Buidéal Beorach
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How the Romans really conquered Britannia. pic.twitter.com/ZpiGWKG1nl
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What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?
The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet.
Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming - warming that would exert a ( Read more... )

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Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
He was a world-renowned scholar of antiquities, enchanted into his old age by Syria’s fabled city of Palmyra, which he called among the most beautiful in the world.

Not far from the spectacular Roman ruins he had spent decades safeguarding, 82-year-old Khaled Asaad met a ( Read more... )

From the buried bunker, Hitler’s ghost still haunts Berlin’s psyche, 70 years on
There are few surviving buildings or monuments to testify to the period in which Berlin was the Nazi capital, when it was to become Welthauptstadt Germania - an Albert Speer-designed world capital of a massively expanded German nation.

The Olympic stadium, site of the ( Read more... )

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The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world.
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Mussolini's Secret Weapon: Castor Oil is an interesting sidelight on history. It includes something in particular for modern Americans to think about:

In the years from the March of Rome, 1922 to Italy’s foolish entry into WW2 10 June 1940 sixty five men were executed in Fascist Italy (there were also a dozen or so extra legal killings). In ( Read more... )