The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that modern humans descend from the interbreeding of two now-extinct species around 300,000 years ago. This discovery
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On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—intelligence agents working under diplomatic cover known as
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In a historic move towards government transparency, President Donald J. Trump has ordered the full release of previously classified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The declassification also
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The grandson of Italy’s last king, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, has launched a campaign to bring back the remains of King Umberto II and his wife, Queen Marie-José, for reburial in the historic
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In a controversial move reflecting India’s ongoing historical and cultural debates, members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have demanded the demolition of the tomb of Mughal emperor
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The deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his partner, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, have led to movie clips of “The French Connection” movie being shared across social media. Hackman, who starred in
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by Satchi Deepa Mandlik’s Dynasties of Devotion is a work that does not merely present temples as places of worship, but as testaments to an India that thrived on artistic ambition, imperial
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The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is still repeated in today’s textbooks. Money is said to have originated as just another
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Scientists are pushing the boundaries of genetic technology in an effort to resurrect traits from extinct species. The latest breakthrough? A group of “woolly mice” engineered with mammoth-like genetic traits, bringing researchers
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by Paul Michael Mandelbaum’s The Titans of the Twentieth Century purports to be an incisive exploration of eight men who “made history and the history they made.” The author, with an almost
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