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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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My untranslatable name
When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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