Sunday 22 July 2018

500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles

500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles: Skeletons of over 500 children who died during the Great Hunger were found buried in a mass grave within what was once the Kilkenny Union Workhouse. With over three years of research on their bones, bio-archaeologists have been able to uncover the children's harrowing stories and medical secrets.

Saturday 14 July 2018

Harvard Law Journal concludes: The preborn child is a constitutional person

Harvard Law Journal concludes: The preborn child is a constitutional person: Pro-lifers and honest pro-abortion legal scholars agree that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. But just how wrong is it? Is it bad law solely because it declares a right to something the Constitution is silent about, or does its judicial malpractice run deeper? I have long argued that legal abortion violates not only the […]

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Wednesday 11 July 2018

Searching for Grace Humiston: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes 1871-1948

Searching for Grace Humiston: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

The life and times of Carlton Kirby

The life and times of Carlton Kirby: Carlton Kirby is one of the most familiar voices in cycling. Ahead of this year’s Tour de France, the Eurosport commentator tells Fiona Adams how his career took him from Sheffield to Teddington via Norwich and the South Seas

Monday 9 July 2018

Peter Watson @ The American Library in Paris | 5 November 2014

Peter Watson @ The American Library in Paris | 5 November 2014

The German Genius By Peter Watson

The German Genius By Peter Watson: Has anyone misplaced a renaissance? Say, a Germanic one, about two centuries old? We all might have, according to cultural historian Peter Watson\'s thick new book The German Genius: Europe\'s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century. It\'s a big thesis, but the evidence is surprisingly strong. A summary on the book\'s back cover states the case: From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force -- more creative and influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the twentieth century, German artists, writers, scholars, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly unified country to new and unimagined heights. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than any other nationals, and more than the British and Americans combined. Yet this remarkable genius was cut down in its prime by Adolf Hitler and his disastrous Third Reich—a brutal legacy that has overshadowed the nation\'s achievements ever since.

Saturday 7 July 2018

Tariq Ramadan: "Female Circumcision Not in the Quran, but Part of Our Tr...

Is Tariq Ramadan a Victim of French Justice?

Is Tariq Ramadan a Victim of French Justice?: Then, of course, comes the trump card: all the accusers are supposedly Islamophobes. The next hearing has been set in July, in which Ramadan may well be slapped with that third indictment, for one, or several of, the nine rapes Ms Rabbouj accuses him of

Is Tariq Ramadan a Victim of French Justice?

Is Tariq Ramadan a Victim of French Justice?: Then, of course, comes the trump card: all the accusers are supposedly Islamophobes. The next hearing has been set in July, in which Ramadan may well be slapped with that third indictment, for one, or several of, the nine rapes Ms Rabbouj accuses him of

Tuesday 3 July 2018

In first, Israeli elected to head UN human rights body

In first, Israeli elected to head UN human rights body: Yuval Shany,  former dean of Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law, was elected to chair a professional committee in the UN that deals with human rights issues.

Sunday 1 July 2018

After his CIA role there, Larry Devlin was from 1976 Congo Manager for the vast Tempelsman Diamond empire !! Congo-Kinshasa: New Evidence Shows U.S. Role in Congo's Decision to Send Patrice Lumumba to His Death - allAfrica.com

CIA Congo chef wss later Congo Manager fro vast Tempelsman Diamond eoire !!Congo-Kinshasa: New Evidence Shows U.S. Role in Congo's Decision to Send Patrice Lumumba to His Death - allAfrica.com: Guest Column - Fifty years ago, the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Less than seven months later, Lumumba and two colleagues were, in the contemporary idiom, "rendered" to their Belgian-backed secessionist enemies, who tortured them before putting them before a firing squad. The Congo would not hold another democratic election for 46 years. In 2002, following an extensive parliamentary inquiry, the Belgian government assu