News tagged with british empire
Victorian naval medicine
The British Empire depended on its navy to survive and grow. For its operational success, the Royal Navy in turn depended on the health of its sailors, who were frequently exposed to ‘exotic’ and ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Home movies chronicling end of Empire released online
(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of almost 300 films which offer a unique glimpse of life in India and other parts of South Asia during the final days of the British Empire has been released online.
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Vampires and Zombies: No mere pop culture trend
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires and zombies, both of which became a popular phenomenon in Victorian Britain, are all the rage. Temple English Professor Peter Logan believes this is no mere pop culture trend, but ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Language change can be traced using gigantic text archives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically. Donald MacQueen from Uppsala University, Sweden, ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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British police arrest 5 in tabloid bribery probe
(AP) -- The criminal investigation into British tabloid skullduggery turned full force on a second Rupert Murdoch publication Saturday, with the arrest of four current and former journalists from The Sun ...
Jan 29, 2012 |
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Murdoch to pay Jude Law, 36 others for hacking
(AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's media empire apologized and agreed to cash payouts Thursday to 37 people - including a movie star, a soccer player, a top British politician and the son of a serial killer - who were ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Rupert Murdoch takes to Twitter
He first built his empire on newspapers, but octogenarian Rupert Murdoch has now made a surprise bid to become a more modern media baron by joining Twitter.
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Designer behind Apple's products knighted in UK
(AP) -- Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II.
Jan 01, 2012 |
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South Pole website celebrates a century of science
A century ago, two groups of explorers crossed the Antarctic continent, competing for the distinction of being the first to stand at the geographic South Pole. Norwegian native Roald Amundsen and his men won ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Known and unknown: Great travellers of the Pacific
When a well-known travel magazine set out to identify the top ten travellers of all time, the names it came up with held few surprises. Top of its list, which encompassed Charles Darwin and Christopher Columbus, ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Castles in the desert - satellites reveal lost cities of Libya
Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 07, 2011 |
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News of the World warnings went back to 2008: documents
Aides to Rupert Murdoch were warned as far back as 2008 that there was a culture of illegal voicemail hacking at the News of the World tabloid, according to documents released in Britain on Tuesday.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Will the English language ever die?
These cultural conventions are indicative of how a language impacts the worldview of the people who speak it. In Martu, an Aboriginal language from Western Australian, black and all dark colours are maru or maru-maru while ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Researchers participate in network science to challenge long-held ecological theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, ecologists have toiled to nail down general principles explaining why some habitats have so many more plant and animal species than others. Much of this debate is focused on the idea that the ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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