[NEWS] Five mixed links: medieval cockatoos, Indonesia, Morocco and the EU, White Helmets, Hllywood

[rfmcdonald]

• If an Australian cockatoo did appear on a 13th century European map, this hints at a history of medieval interaction with Australia as yet untold. The Guardian reports.


• The effects of a powerful Indonesia--an Indonesia likely to emerge through decades of steady growth--on Australia, to say nothing of its Southeast Asian neighbours, seems to be systematically missed. ABC reports.


• Mohammed Ben Jelloun's Open Democracy article, looking at the surprisingly close relationship of the Sherifian kingdom with the European Union and the impact on domestic dissent, is a must-read.


• Canada, thankfully, is taking in hundreds of Syrian White Helmets and their families as refugees. CBC reports.


• This r/mapporn post sharing a map depicting the different California locales used by Hollywood in the 1920s as stand-ins for foreign locations is classic.