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In der aktuellen Debatte über das Recht auf Asyl und Migration spielt das "Streben nach Glück" eine zentrale Rolle. Um so interessanter ist die Einschränkung, die Franklin einige Jahre zuvor in einem Brief machte. Darin fand er deutliche Worte zu einer speziellen Gruppe von Einwanderern, den Deutschen. Ihnen warf er nicht mehr und nicht weniger als Integrationsverweigerung vor, und seine Argumente erinnern an die Vorwürfe, die heute vor allem gegen muslimische Migranten ins Feld geführt werden.

USA: Als Deutsche Die Integrationsverweigerer Waren - DIE WELT

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“Our results provide the strongest evidence to date,” Shi’s team wrote, “that Chinese horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-CoV,” and that intermediate hosts might not be necessary for SARS- ... like coronaviruses to pass from bats to humans.

Breathless

David Quammen

Also, his power was pivoted more on command of the ‘sown’ than on mastery of the steppe: his armies were made up not just of mounted bowmen (the classic Mongol formula), but of infantry, artillery, heavy cavalry and even an elephant corps. His system of rule was a form of absolutism, in which the loyalty of his tribal followers was balanced against the devotion of his urban and agrarian subjects.

After Tamerlane

John Darwin

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