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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...Spanish waters, which so far this year have seen the arrival of 12,063 men, women and children, reports IOM Madrid’s Ana Dodevska. Spanish arrivals in June are now nearly 4,000, by far the heaviest volume of the year so far (see charts below). [Graphic supporting the text] Dodevska reported the following developments between Friday and Monday (15-19 June): 15 June: 682...
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May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
Languages

May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...Spanish, German and Chinese dictionaries] R2-D2 or D2-R2? Unless you are C3-PO, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, you may not understand every Star Wars language. We’re not talking about the languages spoken in the saga such as Shyriiwook, Huttese, Bocce or even Binary (beep beep doop!), but the languages that the Star Wars films have been translated to....
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Catalonia: What happens now?
Society, Politics & Law

Catalonia: What happens now?

...Spanish flags flying side-by-side] The Spanish flag flies alongside the Catalonian Senyera flag in September 2017 Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister of Spain, has called a potentially explosive regional election in Catalonia on December 21. This follows his decision to trigger Article 155 of the Spanish constitution to impose direct rule over Catalonia, dissolving its...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...Spanish it’s translated as Harry Potter and the cursed legacy (Harry Potter y el legado maldito). [Harry potter translations images] Some of the translations from the Harry Potter series. Most translators kept the names of characters and places very close to the originals, but the Italian and Norwegian translators applied more creativity to their texts. In Italian we...
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What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...Spanish and Russian documents show members of the British royal family were indeed far closer to Nazi Germany than has previously been recognised. I present this in full in my new book Go-Betweens for Hitler. One key to this Anglo-German network is Charles Edward Duke of Coburg (1884-1954). In a Channel 4 programme on him in 2007, I called Coburg “a Nazi who got away...
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Analysing European Romanticism
History & The Arts

Analysing European Romanticism

...French Romanticism took its philosophical cues from Germany and literary inspiration from England, developing a unique approach and adding to the core of aesthetic theory. Romanticism in Spain Romanticism was adopted fairly late in Spain, because of societal and religious pressures on intellectual life, How did Spanish writers approach and appropriate the philosophy?...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...Spanish chorizo – spicy with smoked chilli pepper – is less than 500-years-old, sausages themselves have been around for thousands of years, so they deserve a bit of respect. Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, composed perhaps 10,000 years ago, describes luscious goat sausages glistening on a grill: “As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and...
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Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government
Society, Politics & Law

Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government

...Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) was effectively blocked in parliament, where the 69 deputies from the left-wing collective Podemos voted it down. The only other feasible coalition option, an alliance of the PSOE, the United Left (IU) and Podemos, would have been enough to form a left-wing minority government – but this was scuppered when Podemos insisted that...
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