Category Archives: History

International Women’s Day

Posted on 2018-03-08 by

Today is International Women’s Day, but many of you don’t seem to know how to properly celebrate or commemorate it. It’s NOT a day for those who forgot Valentine’s Day, NOR is is a second chance for those whose object … Continue reading →

Posted in Bolivia, Feminism, History, Italy, Travel | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Random Thoughts (21)

Posted on 2018-02-19 by

For writers, it must be saddening to see how ill-informed some people buy books. There seems to be a little bit of corruption in Montenegro. When I returned to university to study history at age 42, some were wondering what … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Education, History, Language, Montenegro, US election 2016 | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments

The Millionaire Translators of Montenegro

Posted on 2018-02-13 by

Tivat is different from the rest of Montenegro: more glitzy, more shiny, more expensive, more show-off. All the things I don’t like. I only go there regularly because I am trying to visit the Maritime Museum in Tivat, but it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, History, Language, Montenegro, Photography, Politics, Travel | Tagged , , | 86 Comments

A Government Shutdown is Nothing Unusual

Posted on 2018-01-20 by

Other countries have them all the time, too. Let’s look at when some specific countries went through a similar period of limited capacity to act. USA: today Germany: 1945 Russia: 1917 France: 1789 Japan: 1945

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Film Review: “Darkest Hour”

Posted on 2018-01-20 by

Great, a film about Churchill and about World War II! A movie for which even this student of history can leave the desk for a few hours without a guilty conscience. And off to the cinema I was. There, the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Films, History, UK, World War II | Tagged , , | 23 Comments

Vrmac – where you get drunk from hiking

Posted on 2018-01-06 by

The only disadvantage about Kotor is its location in a fjord, surrounded by steep mountains, which to cross takes the sun a few cumbersome hours every morning while it already warms people and spirits elsewhere in the country, and behind … Continue reading →

Posted in Austria, History, Montenegro, Photography, Travel | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

Moving to Montenegro

Posted on 2017-12-05 by

By now, I have really been staying in Ammerthal, the small village in Bavaria where I grew up, longer than I should have. Rent-free living and a cozy room full of books should actually provide agreeable conditions for a student … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Maps, Montenegro, Travel, World War II | Tagged , , | 55 Comments