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• Italian merchants funded England’s discovery of North America

  Source: University of Bristol. Sebastian Cabot Sebastian Cabot was born to Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), also an explorer variously credited with Genoese or Gaetan origins, and Mattea. He told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol and carried to Venice at four years of age; however, he also told Gasparo Contarini, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V that he was Venetian, educated in (...)

• UK destroyed records of colonial crimes

  Source: Guardian. Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded. Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign (...)
• 21 December 2011 – Thousands of rare documents burned in Egypt clash
• 19 November 2011 – First Tajik national encyclopaedia published
• 24 May 2011 – Google shuts down newspaper archive project
• 26 April 2011 – The last mechanical typewriters by Godrej
• 30 March 2011 – Gandhi left his wife to live with a male lover, new book claims
• 8 March 2011 – Buried soldiers may be victims of ancient chemical weapon
• 14 December 2010 – New Information about the Sasanian Dynasty, among the discovered historical letters dating from the Arab conquest of Egypt
• 2 December 2010 – From Iran to Corinth
• 3 November 2010 – CALL FOR PAPERS: The anniversary of the Battle of Qadisiyyah
• 30 October 2010 – Armenian archaeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found