Why is Indian Ocean named after India? Why is the Indus River Valley civilization called Harappan? Why is the Middle East called the Middle East? Why is the East India Company named what it is? Why is it called Mount Everest? Why are the Indigenous peopl...
Why is Indian Ocean named after India? Why did loyalism appeal to Native Americans? Why were the Olmecs called the mother of Mesoamerican civilizations? Why did the Lakota call Little Bighorn greasy grass? Why did the British believe they could take Aboriginal land?
Imagine a world where the genetic code is as easy to edit as a simple copy-and-paste. This is the reality of CRISPR, a revolutionary technology that could cure diseases and save countless lives. But in the wrong hands, it may lead to a dark future. Unlocking the secrets of DNA and th...
For instance, the cow is the holiest animal in the country, and its slaughter is banned in most of India. The worship of serpent gods is present in several ancient traditions in the country. Nag Panchami, the festival of snakes, is an important event when people...
The exact timing is uncertain due to lack of polarity reversals during the Cretaceous Normal Superchron (~125.9–83.6 Ma; Gradstein et al., 2012), but is evidenced from a bend in fracture zones of the Weddell Sea (König and Jokat, 2006) and Southwest Indian Ocean (Mueller and Jokat,...
The East Indian Company and Sepoys: When the English established the East India Company in the early 1600s, they also became involved in domestic affairs in India. There were occasional wars and other social calamities in India throughout the 1600s and 1700s. Furthermore, the Dutch and French...
The British East India Company formally lasted until 1874 but after 1857 it was a shell of its former self. It was responsible for trade monopolization on behalf of the British in the Indian Ocean and, later, into the South China Sea. ...
text. Suddenly, the �photographic face� became the ground for other expressions, yet something is still the same. The word �Che� instead of the eyes and �si� for the nose gesture toward the dynamics of words and slogans, as if the face itself is affirming, �Che, yes....
To have been an Indo-Aryan, Vaivaswata had not, of necessity, to meet with his Saviour (Vishnu, under the form of a fish) within the precincts of the present India, or even anywhere on the Asian continent; nor is it necessary to concede that he was the seventh great Manu himself (...
There is also a school of some note in Southern California, the arch-rival of the University of California at Los Angeles, where the student body is named after the warriors of Troy. They say that history is written by the winners, who will flatter themselves; but the Iliad shows that ...