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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2026
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Rise and Violent Fall of Bangladesh’s Founder
Beyond the sea walls: Underwater archaeology reveals the hidden scale of ancient Mediterranean ports
Recommendable!
"... To get a fresh perspective from under the sea, researchers launched SHIPs (2023–2028), a multiyear underwater archaeology project combining hands-on fieldwork across the Mediterranean and a major freshwater lake.
By approaching harbors from the water rather than the shore, the project maps the different elements of a port system and examines how they worked together.
They discovered that anchoring areas beyond the formal stone walls played a decisive role in how much traffic a port could handle. Judging a port's capacity by its surviving stone docks alone overlooks the many ships accommodated beyond them.
Ships anchored in sheltered natural bays, were beached along open coastlines or moored in deeper waters beyond the harbor walls. These practices reshaped how researchers view harbor capacity in the ancient harbors of Caesarea, Terracina and Port-Vendres. ..."
From the abstract:
"The SHIPs project examines ancient harbours from a maritime perspective, analysing integrated harbour systems across contrasting environments in the Mediterranean region. Application of standardised analyses demonstrates that extra-basin anchorage zones played a decisive role in determining harbour capacity and enables more robust evaluation and comparative ranking of ancient ports."
Port-Vendres (France): locations of shipwrecks and assemblages.
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
BRICS: How a Banker’s Idea Became a Global Power Bloc with Palki Sharma
Recommendable! A brief history of BRICS and how it rivals with e.g. G7.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
A 600 kilometers long Human Chain connecting the three Baltic States in 1989
When the Soviet Empire fell! A historic moment!
"... Nearly two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, forming a human chain stretching some 600 kilometers and connecting three Baltic capitals: Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. Broadcast around the world, it became one of the defining images of the Singing Revolution and the Baltic struggle to restore independence. ..."
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Lichtenstein: Why Europe’s Most Powerful Monarchy Is Heading for a Constitutional Crisis
Recommendable! Lichtenstein & Luxembourg are two very small and special countries in Europe!
Friday, August 21, 2026
The U.S. began deporting illegal immigrants to Liberia
A case of history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes? What an irony of history!
"History: Founded in 1822 by freed African-American and Caribbean settlers backed by the American Colonization Society, it became Africa's oldest republic when it declared independence in 1847." (Google Search)
"The U.S. began deporting immigrants to Liberia in an expansion of President Trump’s plan to send migrants to third-party countries.
A plane carrying an initial group of deportees landed in the country today, according to a spokesman for the Liberian government. The flight is part of a broader plan, announced by Liberian officials earlier this week, for the country to take up to 1,200 deportees in the next year.
More than 35 nations, including South Sudan, Mexico and Uganda, have similar agreements with the Trump administration."
The flag of Liberia
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Changed India Forever | The Revolutionary
Recommendable! Among other things, he was an advocate for the Dalits.
Friday, August 14, 2026
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Monday, August 10, 2026
Bengal Famine 1943: How Churchill Starved 3 Million Indians. Really!
Very recommendable!
However, it was neither orchestrated by the British empire nor Churchill's fault!
It was World War II going on and Japan invaded Burma.
Caution some imagery might be disturbing to some viewers.
Sunday, August 09, 2026
Friday, August 07, 2026
The West Said India Would Fail. They Were Wrong with Palki Sharma
Recommendable, but with qualifications! Palki tells a very one sided story here.
From the British, the Indians e.g. learnt the rule of law, classical liberalism and the English language.
Palki forgot/omitted to mention e.g. that Mahatma Gandhi was a British trained lawyer from South Africa.
Thursday, August 06, 2026
Tuesday, August 04, 2026
The Constitution's Forgotten Economic Tradeoffs relative to the The Articles of Confederation
Recommendable!
Monday, August 03, 2026
Narendra Modi: Celebrating 100 years of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru
What is the Prime Minister of India trying to tell us here?
What Makes Bahrain Different? | The 5,000-Year Story No One Tells
Very recommendable! A melting pot and at the crossroads of major trading routes.
Sunday, August 02, 2026
How Putonghua became ‘common speech’ in China besides hundreds of dialiects
Very recommendable! Was the Communist Party of China pushing to hard to standardize the spoken/written language?
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