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In a long, shallow article published recently in The Financial Times, the historian Simon Schama accused Yes supporters of betraying their own past. The great names of the Scottish Enlightenment, [...]

Twice in history, those two great neighbours dropped their mutual dislike to divvy up the pesky, defiant country between them: in the 18th-century partitions and in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of1939, when Hitler and Stalin agreed that the Poland page should be torn out of the European atlas forever. More than two million Ukrainian refugees were welcomed into Poland in the months following Putin's attack; this January, Poland was the only state to declare that it would give its Leopard tanks to Ukraine with or without German permission. [Extracted from the article]

The show began with blinding flashes, heart-stopping thunder, sparks which had been palaces and hovels soaring up to decorate the night sky. The Shock and Awe military tattoo had started. [...]

Political change without violence is rare in Georgia and this was the first bloodless revolution in Tbilisi, a city that was burned down forty times in its history. Mikheil Saakashvili is running for the presidential elections and the Georgians want to see the results as well as words.

The environmental balance in the Black Sea is described. Human roles in water pollution, the religious aspects of environmental preservation, changes in the ecological balance of those waters, and human approaches to the problem are explored. Introducing the American butterfish to the Black Sea might control the spread of a life-devouring comb jelly that is rapidly controlling this ecosystem.