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Ancient menstruation
In the US, Aunt Flo comes to visit, in Hungary, it’s called the monthly “oil change”, and in South Africa, your “granny is stuck in traffic”. So many euphemisms, just to avoid having to utter the dreaded word: menstruation. However, the taboo surrounding menstruation is a quite recent trend in human history. In ancient India,…
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Learning to love the Absurd
There are days when I wake up and everything feels heavy for no reason. The air, the noise, the thoughts. It feels like I am walking through a loop: repeating, trying, failing, repeating again. In those moments, I think of Sisyphus. The man cursed to push his stone up the mountain forever, only to watch…
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A stranger at home
The hardest part of living abroad? Well, sometimes it’s coming back. Instead of comforting, being back home can be frustrating, confusing and depressing, especially if you didn’t miss a single thing there. Obviously, everyone goes through it differently, and I’m quite an extreme example. Despite that – or maybe because of that – I want…
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House of memories
Can you count to ten in a language you learned in school? How many bones are there in the human body? Who was the first president of the United States? When was your first date? What is the formula for the perimeter of a circle? What is the capital of Australia? Asking these questions triggers…
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A summer of sport, youth, and unity: the end.
The 18th Summer European Youth Olympic Festival, known as EYOF Skopje 2025, delivered a week of unforgettable youth sport, unity, and cultural resonance in Macedonia’s capital and surroundings. More than 4,000 athletes from 50 European delegations gathered for a celebration of excellence and friendship. EYOF 2025: Sporting highlights and records set… Italy topped the medal table…
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A summer of sport, youth, and unity
All eyes on sport in Macedonia this July From July 20 to 26, 2025, Macedonia will host the 18th edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), a major event that promises to transform not only the country’s capital, Skopje, but also the broader perception of what a small country can achieve on the international…
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Perfecting Imperfection
When I picked up my first Jane Austen book, I was unsuspecting of what I was getting myself into. To set the scene, I was a clueless eighth-grader that discovered English 19th century literature after picking up “Jane Eyre” by chance in the children’s library two years prior. So, little did I understand of the…
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(Finding solace) Betwixt the peaks and troughs
I have become accustomed to a rather mundane paysage. Green and yellow fields stretch as far as the eye can see, trying to fight against the monochromatic, alabaster clouds on the horizon that dominate the sky for most of the year. This is what characterises the East Midlands – a stretch of flat land with…
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Weaved in tradition
The idea for this article came to my mind while I was doing the design for my previous article titled “A Linguistic Tapestry of the Balkans”. I have always been drawn to traditional clothing from different countries, especially to the often colorful and intricate designs embroidered on them. So, this was the perfect occasion to…
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Do you have our app?
He was walking through the dull streets of his hometown. Early spring. The remnants of the snow were slowly disappearing, creating a muddy mess everywhere the eyes could reach. Earphones connected, a random song becoming a soundtrack of the day. Going for another interview seemed pointless. How many has he been to at this point?…
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So… why are you still single?
After debating with myself for an hour, I pressed “send” and threw my phone across the bed. I immediately panicked and went to clean the whole flat, do the laundry, and maybe take my fish on a walk. Why on earth texting a person you like is so nerve-racking? An hour later, I gathered the…
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