“The earthquake, the most powerful to hit the country since 1980, has brought devastation to areas that were already damaged by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake of 24 August, which killed almost 300 people. No further deaths have been reported in the recent wave of seismic activity. The latest disaster follows a pair of tremors (5.4- and 5.9-magnitude) in quick succession on 26 October.”
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Esperanto: The Constant Battles Over The Language Of World Peace
The inventor of Esperanto, Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof, explicitly hoped that his simple, easy-to-learn language would lead to easy communication between nations and peoples – and thus to an end to conflict between. Even that ideal was controversial, and was rejected at Esperanto’s first international congress. And the arguments kept going from there.