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Gourmet guide

Autumn Appetite

Autumn is the time of harvest and gastronomic festivals around the world. Fresh oysters and homemade sausages, pepper jam and plum pies, year-salted fish and strong palinka – treats and drinks are…

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Shopping

What to Cook Various Goodies On?

Household appliance manufacturers annually release more and more new devices, inventing all sorts of functions for them, which are becoming increasingly difficult for the average user to understand…

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Culture

Time to visit a barbershop!

Barbers are people who provide hairdressing services. From Latin, 'barber' means beard, and that is their distinguishing feature from other hairdressers – they not only cut hair but also trim beards…

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Education

Can you learn English with polyglot Petrov's 16 lessons?

Thanks to the series 'Polyglot' on the 'Kultura' channel, many viewers started learning English, seeing from a live example that learning languages is much easier than it seems. But is this approach…

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News

London Scares Europeans with Visas

The United Kingdom is studying the possibility of introducing work visas for citizens of European Union member states to reduce the migration flow from the EU. This was reported by Spiegel Online…

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Tourism

Range of Additional Services at the Norman Hotel

The Norman is a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv. The Norman Hotel offers an impressive range of additional services. Every guest will surely feel like a welcome, long-awaited visitor, as if everything here…

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Everyday life

Doctor Shortage

In the last five years alone, more than 500 Czech doctors have taken jobs in German medical facilities. In total, approximately one thousand medical professionals from the Czech Republic have found…

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Immigration

Open Borders: Year in Review

Exactly one year ago (on September 5, 2015), the first trains carrying refugees who entered Europe via the 'Balkan route' arrived at Munich Central Station. At that time, they were still greeted with…

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Tourism

Where to Get a Tan This Coming Winter

Summer is over – and experienced travelers know that now is the time to plan their winter vacation. Where should our tourist go to catch a week or two of sunny days? As we know, when it is winter…

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Technology

What Seals and Stamps Are For

The development of human civilization occurs through the creation of something new: household items, tools, and many other things that in the future may serve to ensure the safety of humans and…

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Health

The Stairway Leading to Alcoholism

A person does not become an alcoholic overnight; dependence on alcohol develops over time. At the beginning of the journey, one occasionally wants to drink to relax, especially after a difficult or…

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Everyday life

Social Maturation of Germans

The well-known American psychologist Bernice Neugarten insisted that every society has its own social clock – Social Clock. Well, for example, if a woman in our society hasn't married and given birth…

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News

Paris – Fourth Among the Best

Paris took fourth place among world cities in terms of attractiveness for living according to various indicators. The top three places are occupied by London, Singapore, and Toronto. These data for…

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Technology

Powerful Meizu M3 MAX Smartphone – a Choice for Those Who Are Trendy

Often a buyer simply cannot keep up with the change of trends and concepts in the digital device market. Especially when a favorite manufacturer starts releasing several models a year. However, the…

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Real estate

Log house construction and its features

Log house construction is an ancient traditional form of Russian architecture. Wooden log houses have always been warm, energy-efficient structures. Today, the craftsmanship of wooden construction…

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Everyday life

Gifts of Wild Finland

Wild food is now popular all over the world. However, as the Finland.fi portal notes, there are few places in the world where nature is as accessible as in Finland. More than 75 species of edible and…

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Education

Myths and truth about Finnish school

Finnish comprehensive secondary schools are transitioning to a new curriculum this fall. Skeptics argue that the new teaching and learning method could lower Finland's ranking in the international…

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Education

Chevening – a chance to study in the United Kingdom

The Chevening scholarship programme of the British government has started accepting applications for study at UK higher education institutions in the 2017-2018 academic year. Chevening scholarships…

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Real estate

Where do chalet houses come from in the Alps?

Along with cows, cheese, chocolate, and clocks with banks, Swiss chalets – traditional multi-story peasant houses with steep roofs, characteristic balconies and obligatory geraniums – have always…

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Immigration

Swiss Foreigners

Last year, the number of foreign citizens permanently residing in Switzerland for the first time surpassed the psychologically important mark of 2 million, accounting for almost a quarter of the…

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