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Born as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger in 1927, Benedict grew up in a turbulent time for Germany, then known as the Weimar Republic, in the village of Marktl which sits close to the German-Austrian border. During the Nazi regime of the 1930s and 40s, Benedict's family was harassed by the German...

What is "The Arctic"? In order to intelligently discuss the geo-political issues confronting a mid-21st century Arctic, we must first define what the Arctic actually is. The most widely accepted definition of the Arctic is all land, sea, and space north of the Arctic Circle at a latitude at about...