When merchant ships reached the Persian Gulf, Japan and the Far East, the North and South Americas and Australia and New Zealand, ship crews eagerly waited for the shipping agent to bring on board the mail posted many weeks before in the United Kingdom.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ – President John F. Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway, the war correspondent during Spain’s civil war, had a message for today’s politicians: ‘No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting, or exempt from fighting, should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this […]
At the time when the Soviet Union was interfering in South Africa’s domestic affairs, a joke poked fun at politicians’ buck-wagon expressions. Speaking to a gathering crowd of African villagers in tedious political cliché a visiting uniformed Soviet Commissar earned constant applause. The uniformed Soviet functionary told the […]
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville. Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved the identity of remains – with the navigator’s precise origins to be revealed Scientists in Spain have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explorer died Are […]
Sadly, the clip of a BBC’s main news item that displayed an Indian street celebration as an anti-Gaddafi demo in Tripoli’s main square was par for the course these dark days. One would have thought that modern technology, and the internet, would have ended such knavish behaviour by […]
The photograph of women having tea in New Zealand in 1890 captures a moment that reflects the social customs and cultural practices of the time. During the late 19th century, afternoon tea became a popular ritual, especially among Victorian society’s middle and upper classes. It served as a […]
Officials in Samoa were conducting an environmental impact assessment in the area where the ship sank, Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio said in a statement.
A seaman who fell overboard from a supply ship in the vast Pacific Ocean at 4 am spent more than 14 hours clinging to an old fishing buoy before being rescued. Alone in the middle of the world’s greatest ocean, and without a lifejacket, at first dawn he […]
It is best known as the place where Bulgarian clairvoyant Baba Vanga lived. It is a place said to be a source of incredible cosmic energy.
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