When Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into World War 2, the U.S. was faced with a huge logistical problem. While Britain and Nazi-occupied Europe weren’t very far apart, the distance between the eastern shore of the Pacific and Japan is so large that any offensive across the Pacific would have been…
Did your grandma have the same diet as Hercules? Good question. If your grandma was around in 1960s Australia it’s possible. You see, in ‘60s Australia many people were fond of a treat called Squill Candy. “What on earth is Squill Candy?” you might ask. Well, as you might possibly have guessed, Squill Candy is…
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -Haruki Murakami Nearly every government, from tiny Tuvalu, all the way up to India, has a public sphere. That is, a community of some kind, “made up of private people gathered together as a public…