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Global economic (dis-)order … ? |
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I was doing some research for CabEasy.com, and was wondering which are the biggest cities in the world. I found various sources (wikipedia here, world atlas here) but the conclusion is the same.
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As I wrote recently, I just finished reading Freedom At Midnight, an amazing account of all events that occurred in 1947 and 1948 in India and in the UK that led to India’s independence and partition.
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What is Sikhism and who are the Sikhs ? |
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 A Sikh taking a morning holy bath at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. By Jingye. |
As for certain things in your daily life that you never think of questioning, I realized reading Freedom at Midnight that I knew nothing about the Sikhs, and their religion Sikhism.
Yet they account to 25 millions worldwide, including 19 millions in India and 6 millions in the rest of the world. It’s the fifth largest religion in the world, and is only 400 years old.
So here is, in brief and for the neophytes like me, what Sikhs and Sikhism are.
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The last stand of the … 301 - Or Bush vs Iran |
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We’ve all heard of the movie 300. Some of us even liked it. I, personnaly, saw it twice in the week it came out, on an imax screen, and already a few times on DVD. Visually, it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve seen on a screen.
In brief, 300 tells the story of 300 Spartans who held millions of soldiers of the Persian army invading Greece. To do so, they find the perfect battle field: a narrow passage between steep cliffs and the sea. The battle happened in Thermopylae. They fought with courage and bravery, and managed to held the Persians for a few days, killing tens of thousands of soldiers.
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