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Tag Archive: India
Mystery of 16th-century perfume bottle stopper from India or Sri Lanka found in a field in England
Experts are scratching their heads about how the elaborate 16th century gold artefact, inlaid with 16 rubies, made its way from the Indian sub-continent to a South Derbyshire field.
The ancient Indian tribe where the women are in charge and activists lobby for men’s rights
Today is International Women’s Day, but in the remote northeast of India it is male activists who are seeking to end gender inequalities in a society where females call the shots.
The mystery of the WW1 soldier whose death in 1914 altered the course of WW2
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was Britain’s most famous Army General of World War 2, but history would have taken a different course if a soldier in his platoon hadn’t died saving Montgomery’s life when he was a young subaltern in the opening months of World War 1. The identity of the soldier whose death altered history has never been revealed.
How DNA could safeguard all mankind’s archived knowledge, from mankind itself
Today’s scientists can extract and sequence ancient DNA from Neanderthals, woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species to learn about their biology. Tomorrow’s scientists may do the same to read Shakespeare’s sonnets, or listen to Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. Scientists have successfully encoded these works in DNA and accurately retrieved them, paving the way for a storage system for everything mankind has ever written, within the very code that wrote mankind. Given our clumsy custodianship of historical archives, our survival may depend on it.
Indians and Australian Aborigines interbred 4,200 years ago, sharing DNA (and Dingoes)
When modern humans migrated from Africa 60,000 years ago, they reached Australia 10,000 years later. It had been assumed that they, and their DNA, remained isolated for 50,000 years until British colonists arrived in 1788. However, a new study has found evidence that Australian Aborigines interbred with people from India around 4,200 years ago.
50 Famous Faces in Uniform during World War 2
The sad death of actor Charles Durning on Christmas Eve brings into focus the wartime service of the ever dwindling ‘greatest generation’. Here is a list, by no means definitive, of 50 notable people who served (with varying degrees of distinction) in uniform in WW2.
One man’s 7 year, 21 thousand mile, 30 million footstep trek to retrace the path of human migration
Renowned journalist Paul Salopek is planning to fulfil the daydreams of many a deskbound office-dweller by retracing the longest path of modern human migration…on foot.
Faces around the World 100 years ago – in colour
Autochrome images captured the world in mesmerising colour in the early 20th century. From 1909 Albert Khan sent teams of autochrome photographers to the four corners of the world to make a record of the people who inhabited it. Here are a selection of my favourites.
DNA study finds that European Gypsies left their ancestral home in north-west India 1,400 years ago
A new DNA study has pinpointed the common ancestry of Gypsies and indigenous people of northwest India, and when they began their travels to Europe.
British Government refuses medal for WW2 Arctic Convoy veterans, and will not let Russia award one either
After repeatedly denying British WW2 Arctic Convoy veterans their own medal, UK Government bureaucrats have now decreed that they can’t accept one offered by the Russian Government.
The WW2 American airman who was a prisoner of the Germans AND the Japanese
USAAF radio operator Wendall Phillips was shot down over France in 1944 and captured by the Germans. After escaping, an aircraft crash in the Pacific Theatre in 1945 saw him taken prisoner a second time by the Japanese.
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