fibbra

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by fibbra 8y ago
FYROM is a neighboring country to Greece. For the last 20+ years, the two countries were on a stalemate on this. Greece did not invest much into their northern neighbor. Turkey with Erdogan has more economic involvement in FYROM than Greece
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by fibbra 8y ago
History is full of such issues. This case reached up to economic sanctions. It is good there was no war about this.
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by fibbra 8y ago
It makes you wonder if anything will change when this agreement gets implemented. The official name is still FYROM and will switch to North Macedonia when the agreement starts getting implemented. In a few months or so.
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by fibbra 8y ago
It has been a big embarrassment. The 'macedonian' (irl: south slavic) language was recognized as a language in 1977 at a UN standards meeting that took place in Athens. When Yugoslavia was broken in pieces, the issue of the name f
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by fibbra 8y ago
Ancient Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece. Yes, the city-states have been fighting all the time, just like Athens and Sparta. But they have been part of Ancient Greece. In the case of FYROM (still the official name until the agreement ge
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by fibbra 8y ago
That is not an official stance. Macedonia is part of the Greek identity. FYROM (still the official name until the agreement gets implemented in a few months) have been claiming this Greek identity by misappropriating history. Think of it as
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by fibbra 8y ago
Most likely they did not even read the agreement. Either side.
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by fibbra 10y ago
There is need for research into what is happening in the gut, what the microbiome looks like and how it is influenced by food and stress. This research money can either come by government funding (ideal for basic research) or by private fun
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by fibbra 11y ago
Well, they tried an ironic "tongue-in-cheek" title, let's not burn them.