There's also this from Margaret Thatcher in August 1990: “Today we are coming to realise that an epoch in history is over…For more than 40 years that Iron Curtain remained in place. Few of us ex… (View Post)

“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War – we win, they lose.” Ronald Reagan, June 1988 I certainly remember the Cold War happening in the 1980s, and everyone calling it that at the time. (View Post)

"Horrible Histories" refers to them all as Saxons, which I think is definitive. (View Post)

The "h" in Italian words is usually used to harden the preceeding c or g which would otherwise be softened by the following e or i. Think zucchini vs cappuccino So definitely /k/ in brusche… (View Post)

Absolutely, there's always been a very strong anti nuclear power movement in Germany, Fukushima was the last straw. Hardly unusual for politicians to make bad decisions that are popular without … (View Post)