It is tempting to keep uncovering facts, all of them interesting.

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet oil pipeline blew up in an explosion so huge that the American military suspected a nuclear blast. A quarter of a century later, the incident serves as an object lesson in successful cyber warfare.

"When cyber-vigilantism comes along, people slide under the radar and they release things, thinking that they are untraceable."

I decided I had to get real and take on gophers face-to-face, so to speak.

It’s not about arguments, it’s about emotions. It’s about patriotism.

And that’s interesting: all the more so because Dutch people aren’t patriotic as such. We seldom encounter people who are that patriotic. The French and the Americans are both very patriotic, and that always fascinates and, yes, entertains us, at the same time.

I don't wear a hijab, nor am I Muslim, but textiles fascinate me.

Do not try to teach a child any lessons on an airplane. This is not the time to square off about limit setting. This is a time for distraction and entertainment.

It is tempting to adduce an ancestral hostility between man and wolf. But this is a problem in economics. What this is really about is a competition between two top predators -- man and wolf -- for elk.

Some were crushed to death; others were killed when one of the guardrails broke, sending many in the crowd plunging headlong into the river far below.

Instead of plunging headlong towards new-fangled ideas, today's politicians should take a tip from their predecessors and opt for tried-and-tested methods such as marketplace soapbox speeches.

These are flags wrapped in the flag, so to speak, and constitute a particularly sleazy form of flag exploitation.

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