While Ireland's religious nationalism is in retreat (because the Catholic Church has lost influence), Greece's Orthodox leaders, like Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, are putting up a harder fight to preserve the nationalist spirit which their predecessors embraced, reluctantly at first, in the 19th century.

ECONOMIST: Learning about the past

The court of Louis XIV was impressed as much by the neckerchiefs of Croat mercenaries employed to fight the Thirty Years War as by their fighting spirit.

ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

By the time the eighth came around Munroe was well behind on points and although he tried to assert himself on the fight Nishioka's movement was too cute, as he continued to break the spirit of the Leicester man with accurate body shots, while also opening up a cut below his right eye.

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