Ashes to Masses: Notre Dame’s stunning return
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The Economist
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Many thought a five-year timeline was too ambitious. But even as France’s politics falls apart, it has managed to put the cathedral back together with aplomb. As an election takes place in Ghana, its status as a leading light of African democracy is looking shaky (10:11). And remembering John Kinsel, among the last of the second world war’s Navajo code-talkers (17.44).
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| 1:24.8 | Ghana has been something of a trailblazer in Africa, leading the way in ditching dictatorship |
| 1:30.3 | and maintaining relative political and economic stability. |
| 1:34.3 | Our correspondent says that shine is coming off as voters head to the polls tomorrow. |
| 1:41.3 | And John Kinsel was among the last of the Wind Talkers of the Second World War, |
| 1:46.2 | Navajo Native Americans who developed a cipher that Japan's best codebreakers never cracked. |
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