Culture and Life

GHENT – Best kept secret in Europe

July 26, 2018

‘The historic heart of Flanders’, ‘a city of all ages’, ‘Mediaeval Manhattan’ and ‘Europe’s best-kept secret’: the nicknames Ghent has collected over the years are as colourful as the city itself. Walk through the centre of Ghent and you will immediately see why it has won so many tourism prizes and earned so much international […]

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Most common dream is about first love: Israeli-American AI study

July 9, 2018

The most common dream of human beings is about their first love, an Israeli-American artificial intelligence (AI) study revealed on Tuesday in the Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. People’s dreams of their first love include the pains of separation and memories of the love that has passed and will never come back, according to the study. […]

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Chinese American actress Lucy Liu to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

June 26, 2018

(Xinhua) — Chinese American actress Lucy Liu is among the entertainment industry professionals selected Monday to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019. The new members were announced via live stream on the Walk Of Fame’s website. “I know the fans, tourists and the Hollywood community will be pleased with our […]

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And the most common surname in Belgium is …

June 8, 2018

StatBel has unveiled the list of the most common surnames in Belgium and its different regions. At the top of the list, we find the surname “Peeters”.   With 31,816 people bearing this last name on January 1, 2017, of which 28,446 are in Flanders alone, the “Peeters” are ahead of “Janssens” (29,309), “Maes” (25,025) and “Jacobs” (19,508). It […]

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A day in Qingdao – host city of 18th summit of SCO

June 8, 2018

Standing in the famous May Fourth Square, I have the perfect view of Qingdao city’s skyline on one side, and Fushan Bay, home to the Qingdao Sailing Centre, on the other, which is currently under renovation for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit this coming June. The sailing center was originally constructed for the 2008 […]

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History in Capital and Capital in history

June 5, 2018

By Radhika Desai In Das Kapital or Capital, Karl Marx resolved the key conundrums of the classical political economy: what was value, where surplus value came from, why crises occurred, why the profit rate declined and how wages were determined – in the only way possible, by exposing its exploitative, crisis-ridden and internationally aggressive character. […]

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