@SunshineGirl How do you find Hobsbawm? :)

@GeretJan Well his ideas are obviously very dated and superseded by subsequent events, but this work is still a brilliant synthesis of modern European history, linking everything to the "dual revolution" (the British industrial revolution and the French political revolution).

@Carazaa Your English is very good.

My Spanish is basic. But I love hearing the Bible read in modern Spanish. Le Senior is of course The Lord.

As a zbou I learnt Greek and could follow the New Testament readings. Alas zi did not keep it up, though I do recognise key words or concepts.