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NATION DAILY: AUGUST 4, 2015
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| 70 Years Later, We Still Haven’t Apologized for Bombing Japan |
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We’ve somehow convinced ourselves that Hiroshima was an act of mercy.
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CHRISTIAN APPY
WELCOME TO SLAVONIA - THE GREEN PEARL OF CROATIAN PANNONIA
Move mouse over map to see Slavonia
The Name
Slavonia was named after the Slavs who settled there in the 7th century.
The terrain
The region consists of the Sava valley in the south, the Drava valley in the north, the mountains surrounding the Požega Valley in the west, and Pannonian plains in the east.
History
Archeological evidence proves the presence of civilization in Slavonia for over 8000 years.
Geography
Slavonia is a historical region in eastern Croatia located in the Pannonian Basin, largely bordered by the Danube, Drava and Sava rivers. The region consists of the Sava valley on the south, the Drava valley on the north, the mountains surrounding the Požega Valley on the west, and plains in the east.
History and Culture
The area was named after the Slavs who settled there in the Early Middle Age. However, Slavonian history is more than 8000 years old.The cultural heritage of Slavonia represents a blend of social influences through its history, especially since the end of the 17th century.
WINES
Traditionally Graševina (and other Rieslings), Frankovka, and Traminac have been grown the most, but in recent times varieties like Chardonnay, Pinot, and Merlot are catching up.
In Roman times
the area, now called Slavonia, developed as a province where wheat and grapes were grown.
Vineyards yielded wines of such quality that they were given appellations such as Mons aureuor Vallis aurea.
Today
these areas are the Baranja and Požega-Pleternica wine growing hills which, together with the Kutjevo vineyards and cellars, rank among the oldest European wine cellars.
In other wine-growing areas around Đakovo, Slavonski Brod, Nova Gradiška, Pakrac, Feričanci, Orahovic-Slatina, Virovitica, Erdut, Vukovar and Ilok, the grape vine has been cultivated for more than a thousand years.
Video about Croatian wine
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August 4, 2015
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No good can come of a bill that has the support of the NSA, some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Big Oil and insurance companies. But that's just who's rallying behind a really bad "cybersecurity" bill barreling its way through Congress. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act, or CISA, is a monster of a deal, granting big businesses and banks legal immunity to do almost anything they want with our data — in exchange for sharing our personal information with the government.Mitch McConnell has moved the Senate toward a vote on this, and it could happen in the next 48 hours. Can you send an email to the Senate right now and ask that they oppose this bill?
If you've been with Demand Progress for a while, you might remember when we fought back an earlier version of this bill by the name of CISPA. In fact, we've successfully fought back three or four iterations of this same bill. So why is it back from the dead? Well, some of Congress' biggest donors are corporations hoping to reap the benefits of this deal, and high-profile security breaches at Sony, Target and the Office of Personnel Management have brought cybersecurity back to the forefront.While Internet users like you and me have reason to be concerned by those hacks, CISA is not the appropriate response. In fact, there's clear evidence that this kind of proposed data-sharing would only make our personal information even more vulnerable to attacks.Our civil liberties shouldn't be sold out to the highest bidder. Can you send an email to the Senate today and ask that they oppose CISA?
We've taken this bill down many times before. And with your help, we're going to do it again.
Thanks for standing with us,
—Sara, Daniel, David, Kurt, Victoria and the rest of the Demand Progress team
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Rebuilding Catholic Culture. Restoring Catholic Tradition.
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| August 4, 2015 |
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Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has scored the top spot for Thursday night's leadoff debate of the 2016 presidential race, joined by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and seven other Republican contenders who made the campaign's first cut.
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