Western colonialism 1929 style....
NEW MISSIONARY FILM
A new film depicting scenes in Palestine
was shown at Redruth Picturedrome on
Tuesday and yesterday, and attracted
large audiences. The picture is the joint
work of Mr. T H. Baxter, secretary of the
Missionary Film Committee in which seven
missionary societies co-operate, and Mr.
Henry Howse, kinematographer to one of
the Shackleton expeditions.To avoid the pitfalls of a mere series of
travel pictures on the one hand and of a
religious film of limited appeal on the
other was not an easy task, but the pro-
ducers have been eminently successful.
The film gives a vivid picture of the
Palestine of to-day, with its flourishing
and up-to-date Zionist colonies, contrasted
With its primitive life, unchanged for
thirty centuries.
Salt - not really worth its weight in gold...
Salt has never, ever been 'worth its weight in gold': that's a
modern myth. You are absolutely correct that extracting salt is
economically trivial, given the infrastructure to do it on a
quasi-industrial scale: it isn't a private individual's backyard hobby,
but it is entirely trivial for polities on the scale of a town or
larger. Salt is also very easy to trade, since it's portable and it
doesn't spoil.
Where did the quote about History Repeating come from?
"Variations on the repeating-history theme appear alongside debates about attribution.
Irish statesman Edmund Burke is often misquoted as having said,
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”Spanish philosopher George Santayana is credited with the aphorism,
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,”while British statesman Winston Churchill wrote,
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”Lessons from the past may not always ward off doom, but they can provide insights into the present and even the future."
History Repeating | College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Virginia Tech
Cadbury was an icon of British industry and philanthropy; the fact it
made damn tasty chocolate was just a bonus. The Cadbury family built
the brand on socialist principles in the 19th century, using the vast
wealth their product generated to build hospitals, establish saving
banks for the working classes, and provide vital resources for the
blind. This was a time when the mega rich used their wealth to build
libraries and public parks, ....
John Cadbury was a Quaker, a teetotaller, and an early
environmentalist. He campaigned for better child labour laws, for animal
rights, and against the slum conditions the poor of Victorian Britain
suffered under. He believed in improving the lives of his workforce and
when his two sons took over the family business in 1861, they set about
achieving their father’s dream of building a model town for their
factory workers: Bournville, now a major suburb of Birmingham.
...
other wars that on paper the US was winning in terms of enemies killed and bombing raids completed in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But it is important to remember that after years of bloodshed and killing, they all ended in ways that amounted to defeat for the United States
But that required a president in the White House who was prepared to go to war alongside Israel, something that had never happened despite the two countries' close relationship and Israel's dependence on US military and diplomatic support. Netanyahu could never persuade a US president that it was in America's interests to go to war with Iran – until the second term of Donald J Trump.
A fabulous link to the past via Michael - thank you so much!!
In remembrance of 15 Palestinian paramedic emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza 23 March 2025
11 April 2025"My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed," says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza last month.
Rifaat Radwan, 23, was travelling in a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance in a convoy of emergency vehicles when it came under fire on the outskirts of Rafah on 23 March.
"I never expected him to be killed, especially since the area was classified as 'green', meaning safe and open to ambulances," she adds.
Came across an early mention of Crumpets - in a herbarium !
Culinary uses of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass): 'The Seeds furnish a nutritious meal; it
is made into thin cakes called Crumpits.'
a small extract in a fascinating article by Jessica Shepherd, Natural History Research Assistant (St. Aubyn)
Bringing a herbarium to life at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
