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In the last one hundred years which European city changed four times the country it belonged?

In the last one hundred years which European city changed four times the country it belonged?

Lemberg / Lvov / Lviv

Started as part of Hapsburg Galicia -> Captured by Russian empire during the First World War -> Recaptured by the Hapsburg Empire -> short-lived Ukrainian state -> independent Poland -> invaded by Soviet Union -> invaded by Nazi Germany -> invaded again by Soviet Union -> USSR disintegrated and it became part of independent Ukraine

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Worth reading Lost in the Meritocracy How I…

Worth reading: Lost in the Meritocracy: How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class by Walter Kirn.

And so, belatedly, haltingly, and almost accidentally, it began: the education I’d put off while learning to pass as someone in the know. I wasn’t sure what it would get me, whose approval it might win, or how long it might take to complete, but for once those weren’t my first concerns. Alone in my room, exhausted and apprehensive, I no longer cared about self-advancement. I wanted to lose myself. I wanted to read. I wanted to find out what others thought.

The Jews did it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wb-rBLYsA8