The Original Names of European Countries 🗺️ 🇮🇪 Ireland — Hibernia 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Britannia 🇫🇷 France — Gaul 🇪🇸 Spain — Iberia 🇵🇹 Portugal — Lusitania 🇩🇪 Germany — Teutonia 🇮🇹 Italy — Italis 🇨🇭 Switzerland — Helvetia 🇦🇹 Austria — Danubia 🇨🇿 Czechia — Bohemia 🇭🇺 Hungary —

I love it that the Netherlands is just referred to as "The Lowlands"

> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country. > Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities. > It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh. > He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP. > Cold War excuse. > CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax. >

Worth reading the experience of a traveller who was stranded at Dubai Airport.

How not to peel an avocado and lose all the flesh. Easy way is make an incision round the side and twist and out comes the stone and use a spoon to take out the flesh ! Bingo

Travelling in China 🇨🇳 and the people have been very friendly even though it's tough at times to understand even with translation apps

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

what’s inside Nutella? 😱

One of the greatest to ever do it. 🧡 Ruud Gullit on the magic of Marco van Basten! 🔥

Keith Richards!

Bill Mitchell Let’s be honest about the résumé here. The United States has not won a war since 1945. Korea: stalemate. Vietnam: fled. Iraq: created ISIS. Afghanistan: handed the keys back to the Taliban after twenty years and a few trillion dollars. That is not a winning streak. That is a

So I think the new X algorithm f*cked my account, and maybe yours too. Elon and Nikita said they were going to stop this, but I think they didn't: the new algorithm is clearly showing your content based on your IP geolocation. The proof: Left: 3 months of stats Right: 7 weeks

Wi-Fi was built in Nieuwegein, a Dutch suburb of 60,000 people that nobody outside the Netherlands had heard of In 1999, Cees Links flew to California and closed the deal with Steve Jobs that put wireless internet in every Apple laptop He did not own the patents, his employer

It says a lot why Americans love wars more than peace when they nearly export half of the worlds arms 😳 visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-big…

Looks like I'm gonna call off my summer trip to Barcelona. Think I will spend my hard earned money someplace else on vacation. Anybody with me on this?

For all the #MAGA supporters out there including Anthony Pompliano 🌪 still think import tariffs are a good thing? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Why do Americans think we will miss them in Barcelona?

Eres una perla, Bruce ;)

Depends on the time of the year to live there not where these people are from

❗️X lost its 4th court battle today against a European user — a tech lecturer who filed a GDPR data request after getting shadowbanned. He just wanted to see his data. X intimidated the plaintiff after their first loss by sending two lawyers to one of his lectures at Leiden