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Double-whammy master
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/02/2018
» By using fire for cooking, Homo sapiens took a step higher on the food chain. It made eating mammoths easier on the digestion. The press was another step. Print replaced cave drawings, clay pressings, stone carvings, papyrus. Books were cloth- or leather-bound.
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Vatican thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/08/2017
» Christianity hasn't been around long, its two millennia shorter than Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The God-Mary match captured the public's imagination and Holy Mother Church has been matched with God ever since. It survived its encounters with the Saracens and the Reformation, and now has an estimated following of 1 billion.
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The Law is the law
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/08/2017
» From being overlooked in fear of retaliation, Isis has sprung to the forefront of favoured subject matter among books.
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Nothing to laugh about
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/07/2017
» Certain terms put me off: "only" as in I only want; "just" as in I just mean; "fun" as in let's have some; "hilarious" as in this book is. They are simply untrue.
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It just happened
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/10/2014
» Exactly 100 years ago, World War I started. The spark that set it off was the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, on a visit to Serbia. The continent had had no major conflict since Napoleon Bonaparte's era, but Europe had since become an armed camp.
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Here we go again
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/08/2014
» Mark Twain said that anybody could be president of the US, then quipped that anybody is. Sarcastic, but not untrue. In its less than two-and-a-half-century history, the US has had few chief executives worthy of the position. However, according to the democratic process, no matter how corrupt and/or incompetent, they are voted in and have to be voted out.
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Mariner Murder Inc
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 31/03/2014
» Not the least difference between historians and well-researched historical novelists is that a historian feels obligated to dot every “i” and cross every “t”.
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Will it bring a fatwa?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/07/2013
» The major religions of the world base their legitimacy on the approval of God, gods, goddesses and angels. Their holy books, as well. Their founders are venerated by churches, temples and mosques. And public celebrations. Doctrines are laid out, heresies punished. Followers go to heaven, disbelievers to the other place.
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Dirty politics abound
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/03/2013
» Every two, four, six years, posters fill the streets of men or women with the same message: "Vote for me for a better government." They also appear on TV saying the same thing, with the additional assertion that the others saying it are lying scoundrels, not to be trusted.
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The one percent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/09/2012
» Having written for decades a column about the vibrant night life in the Realm, I felt that I knew the subject better than anyone else and said so. To a large extent, this was no idle boast. My approach was non-judgemental. Others writing about it knew only a fraction as much as I did and had an axe to grind.
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