December 5, 2011
This saga reminds me of the fabled Victorian melodrama ending ‘and with one mighty bound, Jack was free’. A tale of extraordinary determination and a desire to grab life by the scruff of its neck. Imagine for one moment that you are an impoverished student in, shall we say, Newcastle, for argument’s sake. You know [...]
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January 4, 2010
Whilst you were sleeping, Herman Sörgel’s nightmare vision of artificially solving all the major problems of European civilization by constructing an embankment at the Gibraltar Strait to create a new continent, ‘Atlantropa‘, consisting of Europe and Africa, came a significant step closer. Sörgel was run down by an unknown car in 1952, but his Atlantropa [...]
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