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2 months ago

It takes more than an angry Aussie heckler to ruffle King Charles’s feathers…

When the Aboriginal-Australian senator for Victoria shouted “You are not my King”, interrupting a state ceremony for Charles and Camilla in Canberra, it took everyone by surprise. King Charles – on his first longhaul royal tour since revealing his cancer diagnosis earlier this year – has always known that he would become something of a target. The late Queen made …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: The Shapeshifting Sultan - ABC listen

ABC

Please note, this is from an automated transcript, please excuse any errors. Hamish Macdonald: That's Turkish academic and writer Ihsan Yilmaz, who was forced to flee Turkey under President Erdoğan. Hamish Macdonald: It was only back in May of this year that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for another term as Turkey's president, and one of the first calls that …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Jackson says we must own hardest chapters of US history during 1963 church bombing remembrance

Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward. Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Justice Jackson, at 1963 church bombing remembrance, says we must own hard parts of history

LA Times

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Ala., church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward. Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court, spoke at the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

How music takes us back to our past 音乐如何勾起我们的回忆？

China Daily

随身英语 How music takes us back to our past 音乐如何勾起我们的回忆？ Play audio file 你有没有过这种经历：当广播中响起一首歌时，你仿佛回到了第一次听到这首歌的地方？音乐似乎能唤醒的记忆，这是为什么？本期节目探讨音乐如何让记忆驻留。词汇：music 音乐 It's happened to all of us: a song comes on the radio, and we are immediately transported to a time in our past. Paul Donoghue, writing for ABC News, reminds us that the emotional nature of music helps make it particularly memorable. And Kelly …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The NCERT textbook debate is unnecessary

Hindustan Times

The recent debate on changes in the National Council of Educational Research and Training history textbooks reminded me of a comment by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy: “The factors which determine the life of mankind are various, historians select from them only some single aspect, say the political and economic, and represent it as primary, as the efficient cause of social …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Why does music bring back memories?

The Hindu

You're walking down a busy street on your way to work. This experience – when music brings back memories of events, people and places from our past – is known as a music-evoked autobiographical memory. Positive memories In recent research my colleague and I found that the emotional nature of a piece of music is an important factor in how …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Upset Dalljiet Kaur says ex-husband Shalin Bhanot 'shouldn't make mockery of our past on TV'

India Today

Dalljiet Kaur has expressed displeasure over her ex-husband Shalin Bhanot, bringing up their past and divorce on Bigg Boss 16. 'SHALIN SHOULDN'T MAKE MOCKERY OF OUR PAST' In an interview with the Times Of India, Dalljiet said, "I am not saying that when a marriage breaks it is always the man's fault, it could be the woman's fault too. DALLJIET …

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2 years, 3 months ago

RSS Chief Champions India's Ancient Texts, Emphasises Need for Balance, Middle Path And Restraint

News 18

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat while speaking at an event in the national capital advocated the middle path to ensure that “Bharat moves forward”. While speaking on India’s epics and granths, Bhagwat said, “The message in every granth is balance, middle path, and restraint to achieve both of them. We realised we need to tell what is ours.” “Har …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Loyal order leader: Correct story of Northern Ireland’s past must be kept alive

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The correct story of Northern Ireland’s past must be kept …

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3 years ago

‘Slavery was an atrocity,’ Prince Charles says as Barbados becomes a republic

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Prince Charles has acknowledged …

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3 years, 5 months ago

The unsolved mystery of Skeleton Lake

BBC

The unsolved mystery of Skeleton Lake Uttam Panwar/Getty Images Nearly 80 years after the Himalayan lake first captured the world's imagination, the mystery continues to confound – even as revolutionary advances are made in understanding our past. Cold and miserable, at a dizzying height of 4,800m in the Indian Himalayas, I couldn't summon the energy to care about the pile …

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3 years, 7 months ago

‘Sins of our past': Apologies for 1970 Jackson St. shootings