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This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...

Pagare il fio  is Italian for 'paying the penalty,' though literally it means 'paying the fee,' a phrase inherited from the northern peoples—the so-called Barbarians—who toppled the Western Roman Empire. The English word fee  comes from Old English feoh , which survives as fee  in Mid Frisian, vee  in Dutch, and Vieh  in German, all meaning 'cattle.' The Anglo-Frisian rune ᚠ, feh , likewise signified 'wealth.' The literal sense of pagare il fio  is therefore 'paying the cattl

The heart of Western democracies is the joint assembly of Parliament, Cabinet, and High Councils of State. Its Celtic-Germanic origin is the thing , also called ting , ding , or þing  in other writings. Today, national assemblies in Scandinavian countries still refer to this ancient tradition. For example, the parliaments of the Faroes Løgting , of Greenland Landsting , of Iceland Alþingi , and of Norway Storting . However, the oldest written attestation of the thing  institu

After the Roman Empire had incorporated a big chunck of the British Isles in the first century AD, the empire needed a military force to def

Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...

The treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!