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"The British establishment might profitably revisit the work of Sir Halford Mackinder, not to accept his conclusions unquestioningly, but to understand how profoundly its strategic vocabulary may have been shaped by ideas developed in a very different world.

"For there is a rather uncomfortable possibility at the heart of this story.

"What if some of the fear that Britain has inherited about Russia is not the product of an objective assessment of present dangers, but the intellectual afterlife of an ambitious geography teacherโ€™s attempt to make his subject indispensable?"

https://johnmappin.substack.com/p/the-geography-teacher-who-taught?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Mackinder wasnโ€™t the only one taking geography seriously in the 20th century. There is also Braudelโ€™s study of the Mediterranean to consider. Geography definitely matters! But dynamically, not just as a matter of square miles. Watch the waterways!
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Sermon on the Feast of the Protecting Veil of the Most Holy Theotokos
https://orthochristian.com/180821.html

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We, great sinners, have no other Intercessor more powerful than the Most Holy Theotokos.
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Icons and relics of St. Gabriel of Georgia visiting America and Canada
https://orthochristian.com/180847.html

The delegation traveled to the United States in connection with the 1,700th anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the state religion in Georgia.
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