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The New Odyssey and Cast Away review – stories from Europe’s refugee crisis

Edit The Guardian 21 May 2016
These detailed, passionate reports from journalists Patrick Kingsley and Charlotte McDonald-Gibson of perilous journeys across the Mediterranean aim at producing better policy through empathy ... Related ... Unfortunately, where the abolitionists of the 1780s could press for a single law – a parliamentary ban on the slave trade – Europe’s migration crisis involves far greater social and political challenges, to say nothing of economic costs....

History of abolitionists teach us an important lesson

Edit Deseret News 20 May 2016
As a historian and abolitionist, I found Sharon Haddock's May 13 review of the film "The Abolitionists" both discouraging and revealing ... It violated her expectation as a viewer "that everything will wrap up more neatly and quickly." ... and Britain, stretching from the 1780s through to both nations passing legislation in 1807 forbidding their countrymen from participating in the slave trade ... South ... ....

No Need for Geniuses by Steve Jones review – astonishing scientific advances

Edit The Guardian 20 May 2016
From melting down the Eiffel Tower to the Tour de France to black holes ... a richly rewarding if factually unreliable history of revolutionary science ... Jones then brings us to the early experiments on metabolism conducted by the French scientists Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 1780s, from which we learn that they were the first to use guinea pigs as experimental animals ... • David A Bell’s Napoleon ... ....

Experts, drinkers pick best pale ales in the U.S. – including Sierra Nevada pair

Edit Sacramento Bee 18 May 2016
This method, which didn’t produce any smoke, resulted in a lighter malt that was commonly referred to as pale ale by the 1780s ... Best American Pale Ales . UnderTheLabel ....

Seychelles Gets New History Book - 'The Seychelles Islands and Its First Landowners'

Edit All Africa 10 May 2016
[Seychelles News Agency] Victoria -A new book on Seychelles is traces part of the island nation's history between the 1780s and 1830s ... ....

New owners of Linen Green centre put units up for let

Edit Belfast Telegraph 10 May 2016
Share Go To ... The shopping village is on the site of the former Moygashel Linen Mills, which were established in the 1780s. ....

Historic Edinburgh Botanic Cottage reopens after rebuilding

Edit Scotsman 10 May 2016
A historic cottage where some of Scotland’s most important botanists studies 250 years ago has reopened to the public today, after it was dismantled stone-by-stone and rebuilt at a new site ... Simon Milne, Regius Keeper at RBGE, said ... READ MORE ... It was designed by John Adam, eldest of the Adam brothers in 1764, and extended in the 1780s by James Craig, author of the 1767 plan for the New Town of Edinburgh ... READ MORE ... She added....

Industry heritage at Kennetpans (SWA - Scotch Whisky Association)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
(Source. SWA - Scotch Whisky Association). Driving across the Clackmannanshire Bridge, few will give the overgrown ruin on the shores of the river Forth a second glance ... A large main building, and a remarkable warehouse, are now badly in need of stabilisation ... A series of tax changes in the 1780s were introduced to raise the duty paid on whisky shipped to London and, as a result, the trade collapsed and the business bankrupted ... (noodl....

By land, sea and air: 500 years of delivering the mail (Royal Mail Holdings plc)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
(Source ... This cut the 400 mile journey time from London to Edinburgh by a third to around 60 hours The introduction of mail coaches assisted with the development of one, uniform time across the UK rather than having times which varied by region In the 17th century, international trade was exclusively carried out by sea ... Horse power ... In the 1780s, local time varied from place to place, and could not be accurately maintained ... Setting sail....

Want to change 'politics as usual'? Make a viable multi-party system

Edit The Guardian 26 Apr 2016
A constant refrain this election season has been a call for the end of “politics as usual” – the idea that our system is broken is the only thing that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump supporters seem to agree on ... This isn’t a preordained norm everywhere, though ... When the US constitution was being written in the late 1780s, a number of proposals were put forward for selecting the president, including a lottery ... Then Kasich is eliminated ... ....

These gorgeous pottery designs were created by a chemical reaction

Edit Business Insider 14 Apr 2016
... teacher from California is reviving this technique, which dates back to the 1780s....

Kalamba desilting reveals old ducts

Edit The Times of India 11 Apr 2016
Kolhapur. The work of clearing up layers of silt from the Kalamba lake bed unearthed an ancient underground duct system that experts feel supplied water to Mahalaxmi temple area and several tanks in the city ... On Saturday, workers employed for the removal of the sediment found the duct, which was covered under four feet of sediment. The duct system has been built using rectangular carved stones ... But it was definitely built in the 1780s."....

Instrumental Folk CDs from European Artists

Edit Huffington Post 08 Apr 2016
W�r. Photo by Tom Abeloos. Used by permission of W�r. I'm continuing to write about some of the music I picked up this year at the annual Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City ... My favorite new CD of Eurotunes is Back to the 1780s by the Flemish-speaking Belgian band W�r. The title here isn't an exaggeration--in fact, the music on this album is mostly from before the 1780s ... ....
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