Miyajima:
The abode of the gods
When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
invited me to visit the country recently, an official asked me to
name the city that I like to visit most. Without any hesitation, I
replied “Hiroshima”. I wanted to make a sort of pilgrimage to the
Peace Memorial there,
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Sir Winston Churchill:
British statesman with enormous wit and humour
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a man of
many parts. He was a warrior, crafty strategist, shrewd politician,
a great orator, debater, strict disciplinarian, painter, great
national leader patriot and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. He
was mainly responsible for saving the British civilisation.
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Is it natural for humans to make war?
New study of tribal societies reveals conflict
is an alien concept. Is it natural for humans to make war? Is
organised violence between rival political groups an inevitable
outcome of the human condition? Some scholars believe the answer is
yes, but new research suggests not.
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