It was 9 years ago in 2016, that a man killed a bunch of people in Nice, France using a truck. In 2018, a man in Toronto killed 10 pedestrians with a car.
Not exactly a new idea. There is even a Wikipedia article . Far more than I had thought, or wanted to believe.
I'm in Malaysia right now, which is a majority Muslim country. Restaurants and convenience stores sell beer and other alcohol, but I have seen signs in the convenience stores covering the front of coolers saying that Muslims cannot buy alcohol.
I'm not sure how strictly that is enforced, most of the store clerks and waiters don't seem to care.
It's hardly highbrow literature and as far as you can get from "woke", but George McDonald Fraser's "Flashman" series has him at the heart of every 19th century conflict from England to China. Fraser was a journalist, and the history is supposed to be quite accurate, aside from liberties necessary for the plot.
Flashman is the main bully character in the book Tom Brown's School Days. After he is expelled from the school, he manages to get a commission in the British Army and fail upwards even as he is a cad and a coward.
I thought he was fantastic (as were all the actors) in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Just audio. But it is presented in a way that helps you to learn, rather than just remember. If you give it a try, I promise that you will be shocked at how you can retain the knowledge.
It isn't enough on its own, however. You need to reinforce the lessons by speaking to people, reading, and/or TV and movies.
A guy near my home is flying two American flags in front of his house. The thing is, we're in Canada…
I have found Duolingo much, much less useful for language learning than Language Transfer. The latter actually helps you learn to think in another language rather than memorize things (which is still useful, but not nearly as much).
Short if total immersion, I have found nothing better than LT.
As does peanut butter and bacon.
Coincidentally, I just went on the autobahn yesterday, for the second time in my life. We were driving about 130 but there were plenty people probably going 30 or 40 km faster than us.
Most, if not all of the Ontario school boards have canceled their planned trips to the US. They certainly don't want to take a chance that one of their darker-skinned or foreign exchange students could be whisked off to El Salvador instead of arriving at Disney World.