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First Olympiad in Greece
The curtain fell on April 3 at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens' first Olympic Games, where the winners were awarded and presented with medals and diplomas by King George I at first Olympic Games in Athens. While the international media welcomed the revival of the Games, Greek newspapers commented on the ignorance of the organizers and their decision not to take the games to the stadium.
By Cs Sapkota4 years ago in FYI
Source Analysis
From its inception, Christendom’s relationship with Rome was at best ambivalent. Throughout the 1st century, Emperor Nero was viewed with distrust, with the Diocletianic Persecutions throughout the early 4th century substantiating such dubiety. Whilst Constantine’s issuance of the Edict of Milan (c.a. 313.A.D.) saw Christianity’s distrust of Rome recede, the relationship between Rome and Christian apocalypticism was inconsistent. Apart from the persistent anxiety that Nero would return as Antichrist, Roman emperor’s rarely featured in late antique eschatology. Negative discourse surrounding the Roman emperor abruptly changed in the late seventh century due to the work known as The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius. Whilst certain mainstream aspects of Christian apocalyptic tradition are coherent throughout Pseudo-Methodius, such as the Son of Perdition and the Enclosed Nations narrative, the fascinating Last Roman Emperor is of particular significance to eschatological scholars. Pseudo-Methodius’s’ Last Roman Emperor promoted the quintessential Christian monarch, elevating kingship to a godly position intrinsically tethered to Christ’s second coming. Whilst the significance of the Last Roman Emperor cannot be disputed, Witakowski’s view that Pseudo-Methodius’s invented such a concept is fallacious. In the upcoming paper, I am going to argue that Pseudo-Methodius’s’ Last World Emperor was not a unique concept, rather an amalgamation of Jewish Messianism, Biblical scripture and Syriac literature. I will explain how the author used Jewish Messianism for the basic structure of his Last World Emperor, substantiating the concept through allegorically interpreting biblical scripture and localising it within the Syriac socio-political environment.
By T.P Schofield4 years ago in FYI
Instrumentalising Horror
Introduction On April 14 1990, fifty years after the event, Mikhail Gorbachev officially accepted the Soviet Union's responsibility for the Katyn Massacre. Although this admission had a profound political significance, it did not contain any surprising historical revelations. It merely confirmed what international leaders had known for almost five decades - that in April 1940, the NKVD had carried out systematic mass executions of 22,000 Polish officers and members of the Polish intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest. The discrepancy between the Soviet official narrative and the historical evidence of the massacre illustrates the limits of conventional historiography and its principle aim to understand how the past creates the present. Although historical methodology is theoretically predicated on archival sources as evidence and disinterested analysis, in practice, historiography is inevitably shaped by subjective interpretation and personal perception. These mercurial properties inherent in all historiography makes history itself vulnerable to exploitation and instrumentalisation.
By T.P Schofield4 years ago in FYI
Malayan Emergency 1948–1960-brief overview
The Malaysian Emergency (1948-1960) was a terrorist war in the then Malaysian Federation (now Malaysia) fought by Communist and independent Malaysian National Liberation Army (MNLA) (armed forces of the Malaysian Communist Party (MCP) against the British Commonwealth). The Malaysian Communist Party, a party made up mainly of Chinese members representing Malaysia's independent Communist Party, launched a coup d'état on June 18, 1948, after the government declared a state of emergency. 18, the British declared a "critical situation" everywhere.
By Tsunami Karki4 years ago in FYI
BAKER-MILLER PINK: SCIENCE OR SEXISM?
This is dedicated to anybody who loves pink or hates pink. In the late 1970s, the United States was in a cultural crisis. Though groundbreaking racial, feminist, sexual, and class movements paved the way for increased equality, rates of drug use and violent crime significantly increased as well. A professor, Alexander G. Schauss, claimed he had a cure: one pint of outdoor semi-gloss red trim paint mixed with one gallon pure white indoor latex paint, otherwise known as P-618, or #FF91AF, or the "pinkest pink" — later, officially named "Baker-Miller Pink." Schauss claimed that this particular shade could calm, lower aggression, and indeed "sap the strength of even the toughest man." You may recognize this color from classic bubblegum or the pepto-bismol pill, but in the 1980s it could be found anywhere; it was a pop culture phenomenon, appearing on bus seats, in the realty market, in drunk tanks, and even in prisons. Schauss' supposedly "proven" hypothesis was that the visual processing of this special color "affect[s] neurological and endocrine functions, which in turn reduce physical strength and thus aggressive behavior." This theory was widely accepted. In fact, the head coach of Iowa State football had Kinnick Stadium's visiting team's locker room painted entirely in the color as an attempt to weaken the other team before big games, leading to a rather strange Western Athletic Conference ruling in the 1990s that home and visiting locker rooms must be painted the same color. People all over believed this color had either supernatural or scientific powers to physically and mentally weaken. But here's the catch — a 1988 study (and several others since then) found zero evidence of a link between the optical processing and visible reactions in exposure to the shade.
By Lili Price4 years ago in FYI
IS IT LEGAL TO RECORD SOMEONE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT IN INDIA?
In line with the recent video that has gone viral and many others we have seen in the last few years, the question that arises in mind is, can someone film me without my permission in public? Well, there is no straight answer to this. Today’s discussion is two equally fundamental and essential yet potentially conflicting rights, Freedom of Expression and the Right to Privacy!
By Ravi dubey4 years ago in FYI
