Klieman, Kairn A.,"The Pygmies Were Our Compass:" Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. (Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Publishers, 2003).Klieman, K. 2003. "The Pygmies were our compass". Bantu and Batwa in the history of West Central Africa,...
the prototypes of which were sought even in antiquity. The question of the real boundaries of Homer’s geographic world may be resolved on the basis of peoples mentioned in his epics. Among these were the Ethiopians, who may be identified as the Negro tribes of Africa, the Pygmies, who ...
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They were in their school-room when I came upon them, and answered correctly, without book, such questions as where was England; how far was it; what was its population; its capital city; its form of government; and so forth. View in context As for the Pygmies, their capital city was...
DNA samples were genotyped using the Illumina Ovine SNP50K BeadChip (Compass Biotechnology Co Ltd., Beijing, China). The quality of the single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping data was evaluated using Plink V.1.90 software [18], and unqualified SNPs were excluded. The quality control criteria for...
Anyways…on to day 3 of our recent Costa Rica trip, it was the first full day of the workshop. After an early breakfast, Neil and the photographers headed off with Dennis and our drivers and didn’t return until just before dinner so it was a long day. Connie spent the day by the...
“We do not quite understand all the emotion which others are expressing in the matter … It is absurd to make moan over the imagined humiliation and degradation Benga is suffering. The pygmies … are very low in the human scale, and the suggestion that Benga should be in a school instead...
Coming in the wake of the Copernican revolution, Gilbert's new model in stark contrast to the long-held, now deemed "unscientific" notion that compass needles were attracted to a loadstone mountain at the Pole, proposed that the Copernican ball-Earth actually generated magnetism from a ...
But the missionaries were not the only ones whom Tom saved from the red pygmies. Andy Foger, a Shopton youth, was Tom’s enemy, and he had interfered with our hero’s plans in his trips. He even had an airship made, and followed Tom to Africa. There Andy Foger and his companion...