Crimean Tatars, According to Gustav Radde—Part 2

Nov 2, 2014 by

(This post is part 2 of my overview of Gustav Radde’s Crimean Tatars, originally published in Russian in 1856-1857. Part 1 can be found here. The images in this post are from EncyclopediaOfUkraine website.) The introductory chapter...

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Regional Differences in Swiss Cuisine

Oct 26, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in March 2013] My previous post discussed the differences in voting patterns between French-, German-, and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland. Similarly, distinctions in regional cuisines are...

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Best Country To Be a Mother: Finland

Oct 20, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in June 2013] Among the world’s many social development indices is the 2013 Mothers’ Index recently published by the Save the Children charity. The index is a composite of five factors: maternal...

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Global Alcohol Consumption

Oct 16, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in March 2013] Having looked at the global patterns of consumption of milk and cheese, I will now take a look at alcohol consumption. As the maps on the left show, alcohol drinking habits vary...

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Are We “The United States of Smoking”?

Oct 16, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in March 2014] On March 14, 2014, The Washington Post online published an article by Reid Wilson entitled “The United States of smoking: The state with the most tobacco farms smokes most often”....

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Global Patterns of Tobacco-Related Economic Issues

Oct 16, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in July 2013] As noted in my previous post on global patterns of tobacco consumption, manufactured cigarettes remain the main way to consume tobacco worldwide despite the existence of alternative...

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