Archive for February, 2013
A review of “Zero Dark Thirty”
February 2nd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
A favourite for the Academy Awards and one of the best films you’re likely to see this year is Kathryn Bigelow’s movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden. You can read my review here.
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Naming children in Iceland – and around the world
February 1st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I’m fascinated by naming practices around the world which differ far more than you might imagine. So I was interested this week to see a news item about how a girl in Iceland had had to go to court to win the right to use the first name given to her by her mother: Blaer – […]
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