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You don’t need to be a newspaper-addict to have realized by now that something’s going on – or should I say, going wrong – in the country of Greece. So why should you care about some ancient Mediterranean nation that you last heard of from your history teacher? Why has Greece suddenly become the center of attraction for the global media vultures? Does this money-talk sound all Greek to you? Well, hopefully you’ll feel a bit more enlightened after reading this through. This tragic tale started in 2001, when several European nations agreed to replace their currencies with a new, common currency – the Euro. This group of nations came to be known as the Eurozone and Greece was a part of it. For joining the Eurozone, a country needed to be economically well off. If a country with massive debts would adopt the Euro, then it would negatively affect all the other nations using the Euro. Now, Greece had been spending more money than they could earn (it’s called running a fiscal deficit) a...

Doppelgänger You know the famous paranormal phenomenon that people quote often of how there are 7 faces identical to yours in the world. Do you think you have an exact double or doppelgänger somewhere in the world? Pronounced as dop-puhl-ganger, it means an apparition or double of a living person.  Drawn from the German language, its origin walks back to the 19 th century when a lot of superstitions and folk tales were attached to the word. This is a list of German expressions used in English; some are relatively common but most are comparatively rare. In many cases the loanword has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear. In contemporary vernacular , the word doppelgänger is often used in a more general sense to identify any person that physically or perhaps even behaviourally resembles another person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German Doppelgänger, consisting of the two substantives Doppel (double) Gänger (walk...