europe

Inspired by a "Cro Magnon was soooooo awesome" thread I've lately tried to read up on the different historical migration waves into Europe and how different populations were replaced, shifted and went the way of the dodo for one reason or another. In the back of my mind I still have the idea...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/blood-donation/MY00526/DSECTION=what-you-can-expect Among the restrictions for donating blood they list: * Anyone who spent three months or more in the United Kingdom from 1980 through 1996 * Anyone who has spent five years in Europe from 1980 to the present...

This'll end well, I'm sure: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_re_eu/europe_evolution_under_attack

Excellent article here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/why_europe_abandoned_israel_1.html

Much to my happiness, the Paris Mosque rebuilding which had just started last year when I visited (in November) is almost fully complete. I view the building as a work of art, and a reflection of pride and culture for a group that is quite large in the area. Now, when I went back to Brussels...

I read this article and got so burned up that I drafted and sent them a response. Link to article http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/247B538A-449B-47DF-BE4B-351AED0FDA6C.htm My response below: "I wonder how many Europeans, if asked on the street, would know who Guilbert of Nogent was or...

This came up in some pointless thread or another. When you use the term "Europe" do you include the UK in the word or do you think of the UK as distinct from Europe? I am not talking about answering a question in geography class but how the word is defined in day to day speech.

(And by Europe I mean mostly EU and other Western European countries, and I even include Canada! :p) Discussions on the death penalty is one of the Three Big Discussions in this subforum, the other two being gun laws and Israel/Middle East discussions. The situation when it comes to the death...

This weeks Economist has a 15 page article about higher education. I have only read a bit of it but I thought I would mention it in case anyone wanted to buy this weeks copy. In addition, there is an editorial about "How Europe fails its young."...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-08-10-europe-religion-cover_x.htm

By Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post:

A rare opportunity to see one of the greatest musicians and composers of a generation if not all time. Hermeto is an extraordinary live experience. Words cannot describe. tour dates a hermeto thread

Immigrants in Europe from Arab and Muslim countries are: * Living on the dole: Third-world immigrants - most of them Muslims from countries such as Turkey, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iraq - constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending. *...

Pool Boy is enjoying his usual trip to Europe for business. He said everyone warned him "crime is way up" in Europe. He said since "the natives" are always complaining he didn't pay attention. For the first time though it seems the "group" has had some crime. While they stay at really nice...

LONDON : Unskilled foreigners will find it harder to migrate to Britain under new proposals due to be announced. The plans also call for stricter screening of asylum seekers and tighter border controls, the country's interior minister said. The government of Prime Minister Tony Blair has drawn...

It’s a pet peeve of mine but will people please stop using the term “Europe” as if means a nation or state? There is no country, nation or state called “Europe”! Indeed it’s almost a conceit to call (the geographical area most people refer to as Europe) it a continent, since it is...

I don't understand one point. The only true Allies the Americans have in Europe are the UK and Italy, Blair and Berlusconi. Why are you so critics regarding our two countries? Would you prefer to see the UK and Italy among the traitors, France and Germany?:( You should know the UK and Italy...

I've been thinking about this, and I think those who believe it is due to the resurgent of the old antisemitism of pre-WWII (which Hitler gave a bad name to temporarily) is part, but not the most important part, of the answer. Europe both created and was ravaged by that most horrible of...

In his most recent commentary, Mr. Randi wrote he´ll be in Europe in September/October of this year. He mentioned visiting Frankfurt, among other cities. Since I´m living near Frankfurt, I´d like to know when exactly he´ll be there. I couldn´t find any mention of it anywhere on the website. Does...

Source: NY Times How does a free society deal with this? How is it possible to protect an individuals freedom of religion when small aspects of that religion turn against the very society that protects it?

# of People Bush freed from tyranny in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last three years: 40,000,000. # of People European nations freed from tyranny in last 50 years: 0. % growth of US economy last year: 4.3% % growth of EU economy last year: 0.3% "Factoids"? Sure. But no worse--and in fact much...

From The Telegraph (UK): I know one with blonde hair, green eyes, very beautiful, you will love her. The price? £70 Sample:

Around the end of TAM2, there where several discussions of holding an Amazing Meeting outside America - specifically, in Europe. It would, of course, have the benefit of allowing more of our European members to attend, while having the drawback of making it more difficult (and expensive) for...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/international/middleeast/07HAMA.html?ex=1063512000&en=2e09b371228c5f9a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE ...full article

Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet