TEACHER BEHEADED IN FRANCE AFTER SHOWING MOHAMMED CARTOONS Dear Gillian Author’s Notes: After the French Revolution of 1789, the means decided upon for capital punishment
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Notes on Suicide in Post-1945 Japan
The defeat (and the nature of that defeat) of the Japanese Imperial System in 1945, led to one of the most comprehensive (and ambitious) colonisation
Email: The Philological definition of The term ‘Catholic’ (25.8.2020)
Dear Gillian I am reading Bart D Ehrman’s monumental book entitled ‘Lost Christianites’. Obviously, this is a critical study premised upon the objective discipline of philology, but
Email: Daemonika Americana (20.6.2020)
Dear Gillian I always find it interesting how Americans are individualistic, and highly aggressive (a set of behaviours premised upon fear). Of course, they are
Praise for the Communist Party of China! (2020)
No country on Earth could have responded with the decisiveness and effectiveness that has been shown by the leadership of the Government of China, the
Franco-British Exhibition (1908) – ‘White’ City Indeed…
I was looking through an attic recently, and I came across this old postcard preserved in a plastic wallet and dated to Edward VII. The