Europe Under Attack: Neglected lessons from the Netherlands
On Christmas Eve (Peace on Earth) of the year 2002 I published an article in the Amsterdam newspaper ‘Het Parool’, in which I announced that sooner or later West European countries, like Belgium and the Netherlands, would have to deal […]
Europe Under Attack: Neglected lessons from the Netherlands
By René van Slooten
On Christmas Eve (Peace on Earth) of the year 2002 I published an article in the Amsterdam newspaper ‘Het Parool’, in which I announced that sooner or later West European countries, like Belgium and the Netherlands, would have to deal […]
Edgar Allan Poe and King Ludwig II portrait
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*Author’s Note: I wrote this for a Sociology class at WSU, but found the issues are still relevant. Furthermore, all of the complaints, regulations and legalities regarding marijuana, tobacco
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