Last night I listened to planet money and this morning This American Life and they were especially insightful.
An aside here, at first, - they're just real interesting - to mention some French Royal Women of the Renaissance:
Anne de Foix died already in 1506 after complications during birth of her only son, but would give her husband - the King of Hungary - a boy, Louis and heir to his throne and before that a girl, Anne of Bohemia who would be married to Ferdinand I in 1521 who much later in 1558 would be crowned Holy Roman Emporer.
It was a strong household that ruled France and arguably much of the rest of Europe by proxy and many indissoluble links, through much of the 1500's. Started and made firm under Louis XI, it would continued through the regencies of his daughters. A regency technically is when a male son ascends the throne but is still too young to handle things themselves. So, someone is placed as central advisor to make decisions and groom the heir for the throne. The English would often use military commanders trusted by the royal family for a regent whereas the French typically used someone within the family and often daughters or wives or mothers.
Anne of France, Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of same, sister of Jean and regent to Charles VIII, 1461 - 1522
Joan of France, daughter of Louis XI, brother to Charles VIII, married to Louis XII, 1464- 1505
Anne de Foix, cousin to Joan of France, married Ladislav VI King of Hungary and would be grandmother to Maximillian II. Anne grew up at Blois where she got her great education with the rest of the French royalty, essentially raised by Anne de Beaujeu
Louise of Savoy, (1476 - 1531) mother to Francis I, regent 1515, 1525-6, 1529,
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planet money had four looks at how hard it is to reconcile Euro-issues this week and This American Life reports on how FBI goes about catching terrorists. This story sounds like entrapment to me.
The European Union is a fiscal one but not a sovereign union. There's no central government that is in place with rules set up to decide conflicts between nation-states, for example. Just a series of judicial bodies who can determine cases one by one. So, the mending has begun. It will take a long time.
"The Building That's In Two Countries at Once", both Holland And Germany, 16 min
"How A Pasta Maker Got People To Show Up For Work" , in North Italy, 7 min
Why can't you buy pot in Maastricht anymore, but can across the river, Belgium/Holland, 7 min
this american life takes us to the county of my birth, Orange County, CA to tell a story that I don't want to sound like home:
"The Convert" , 56 minutes
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