There have been discoveries of Palaeolithic stone tools in caves in southern and central Oman, and in the United Arab Emirates close to the Straits of Hormuz at the outlet of the Persian Gulf. These stone tools, some up to 125,000 years old, resemble those made by humans in Africa around...
The intentional infection of human beings with pathogens with the aim of achieving benefits (chiefly, the prevention of more severe disease) has occurred for centuries; the (semi-)systematic testing and recording of such methods dates to the 18th Century
Significantly, the impact of the outbreak of large scale pandemics could be prevalent across wider economies in twofold: either because the infection is widespread; or because trade and market integration –in capital and or labour markets eventually propagate economic shocks across the nations (Jordà...
In a new endeavour to take things a little easier, I’ve also recommitted myself to being honest and cut through the crap – and nothing beats the usual crap on Boer War appreciation groups where we get people putting up a picture of poor old Gideon Scheepers, the ‘Yster’ (stand-up...
The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century:The German War of Annihilation in South WestAfrica (1904–1908) and the Global Historyof GenocideI followed their tracks, which led me to a number of wells where I beheld terrible scenes.All around them lay heaps of cattle that had died of ...
Once an oil company had completed its installations, it was not a great employer of labour, unless there was a refinery, as in Bahrain. The city, on the other hand, had to produce all the services that had not been there before—metalled roads, pavements, sewers, piped water, ...
The Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy were directly opposed by the Entente powers of France and Russia and later included Great Britain to form the Triple Entente in 1907. Imperialism Imperialism is when a country takes over new lands or countries and makes them subject to ...
Manmohan Singh was an about-to-retire bureaucrat who in September 1990 was not physically present in India, having been working for Julius Nyerere of Tanzania for several years. On 18 September 1990, upon recommendation of Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Rajiv Gandhi met me at 10 Janpath, where I ...
along with Uganda's very poor international standing due to Amin's support for the terrorist hijackers in Operation Entebbe. He then attempted to annex Tanzania's Kagera Region in 1978, so Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere had his troops invade Uganda; they captured Kampala on 11 April 1979 ...
If so, it is my guess that those “Catholics” that “actually support euthanasia” would be those with whom Steve Clark of Bukoba in Tanzania (they read The Age in Tanzania???) self identifies when he cites those who are only counted as Catholics “because they were baptised as infants...