Thornton Blackmore Those who are familiar with history will well be aware that Karl Marx and other pioneers of socialism and communism have reserved no place for religion in their designs for the world. As Marx famously wrote in his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Religion is the
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John Snow was an English physician, born in 1813, who is considered the father of epidemiology. He traced a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 to a specific water source and convinced the local council to remove the water pump’s handle. The people who passed for scientists in John
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Maori Religions Also mixed up in this period of unarmed warfare over land and dogs, is religion. The Maori never stop inventing new religions. The
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. After 1872 there is no more armed warfare with the Maori (except one small gun battle in 1916). There is however still unarmed warfare. And
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More than a century after it went to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, the Titanic continues to fascinate. You might think that by now there was nothing left to mine in the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck. But research continues to uncover tantalising new details. Space
The Ouija board as a channel for demonic forces has become one of the great cliches of horror movies, yet one that refuses to go away. Even the hugely popular Paranormal Activity series featured a Ouija board bursting into flames at the invisible behest of its demonic antagonist. All that
Racial segregation is enjoying a massive revival amongst the woke left, in the US in particular. In what appears to be an outbreak of racialist retro-chic, leftists are demanding segregated “black spaces” on colleges and in housing. Hipster cafes declare themselves “black spaces only”. Well, it looks like that’s
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
