[LINK] Some Friday Links

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• Otto at Otto's Random Thoughts ruminates on the fact that many diasporas--the Volga Germans, for instance--are the product of multiple displacements. He also considers the case of Koreans in Central Asia, who shifted for various reasons from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan.


• Bill Poser at Language Log is surprised that a couple of rude Hispanophone workers at a casino thought that no one in earshot could speak their language, given that the United States' the fourth or the fifth largest Hispanophone country by numbers. He finds it especially funny given that the Mashantucket Pequot tribe that owns the casino is engaged in a language revival.


• Centauri Dreams is one of many blogs excited that Ontario Lacus on Titan is an actual lake, complete with hydrocarbon liquids.


• Far Outliers presents evidence as to how Catholics in Germany and Austria resisted Naziism quite strongly.


• Douglas Muir at A Fistful of Euros fisks a certain article about Ukraine's non-Europeanness.


• Say It With Pie writes abuot the certain type of homophobes who nonetheless spends $C90 on a ticket for a David Archuleta concert featuring Neil Diamond songs.