Category: Aggregated

Turkey, once a pillar of Mideast stability, looks increasingly like a slow-motion truck crash.   What makes this crisis so tragic is that not very long ago Turkey was entering a new age of social harmony and economic development. Today, both are up in smoke as this week’s bloody bombing in Ankara that killed 99 people showed.  America’s ham-handed policies in the Mideast have set the entire region ablaze from Syria to South Sudan and Libya.  Turkey sits right on top of the huge mess, licked by the flames of nationalist and political conflagrations and now beset by 2 million Syrian … Continue reading →

Not all that long ago, people targeted 100,000 miles as their goal to drive their car because that is about the mileage you could expect before having a major failure.  However, cars have gotten much better, technology has improved, and people are doing more maintenance these days.  This is the reason the average age of cars on the road in the United States has reached an all-time high.  Simply put, cars are just better these days.  Can you get 200,000 miles out of your car with no major issues?  Some will, some won’t, but your behavior and maintenance practices can … Continue reading →

The society for people with the highest IQs may be famous for being full of brain box adults but 250 of the 20,000 members across Britain and Ireland are under 12, and the youngest is only four years old. And this week it was revealed this week that a record-breaking 50 pupils at Heathland School in Hounslow, West London, passed the test by scoring IQs of at least 132. Now, this quiz – which is exclusive to FEMAIL – will determine whether you fall into the top two per cent of of us who are clever enough to join the … Continue reading →

The idiom “divide and conquer” is said to have originated with the Latin maxim “divide et impera” meaning divide and rule. Julius Caesar used it in reference to defeating the Gauls during the Gaelic War. While its first usage in the English language began circa 1600, through the centuries it’s carried a commonly understood meaning. The retention of power by utilizing a deliberate strategy of causing those in subordinate positions to engage in conflicts with each other that weaken and keep them from any unified effort to remove the status quo force from power. This policy of maintaining control over … Continue reading →