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This article looks from where in the Baltic tar was shipped through the Sound to where in Western and Southern Europe, by whom it was transported and in what quantities between 1722 and 1791.

International artists from the present day demonstrate that scent can really be context and /or concept of the work. Scents evoke memories and so also emotions and associations, but let the beholder also re-think and reflect about the context of the work. With the support of Stijn Maes and Annemie Morisse. The main focus of the exhibition publication lies on the olfactory artworks about gas attacks and chemical wars, as well as on the ...

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During the First World War the Germans were deploying thousands of Russian POWs in occupied Belgium. Their presence was part of the German policy to use cheap labour forces behind their lines. Very occasionally these Russians pop up in literature about the First World War. On Belgian cemeteries one can find a few hundred of their graves. In addition, numerous victims – especially in the Allied armies – appear to have a Russian connection. In ...

© 2017 by Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. All Rights Reserved. The accessibility and distribution of scarce resources - like food, water, and energy - is currently a serious international problem. This problem will only intensify in the near future. To what extent can an illegitimate lack of essential resources be a just cause for war? On the one hand, traditional just war theory is very restrictive in this regard, as it generally aims to limit war. ...