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• WikiLeaks: Blitz editor Karanjia was “on the take” from Shah of Iran

  Source: The Time of India. Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia Born into a prosperous Parsi family, Karanjia was the star reporter at The Times of India when it was British-owned. He left when the paper chose Frank Moraes to be its first Indian editor (Karanjia wanted the job) and started Blitz during World War II as a pro-war effort weekly tabloid. As the war wound down, Blitz changed track, identifying itself closely (...)

• Russell to speak on “Animal Style in Art: From Scythia to Aghtamar”

  Source/ The Armenian Weekly. On Thurs., May 30, Dr. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give an illustrated lecture entitled, “The Animal Style in Art: From Scythia to Aghtamar to Modern Russian Literature,” at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont. The lecture will be given in honour of the 90th birthday of Prof. Nina G. (...)
• 26 May – Britain bribed Spain to stay out of WWII
• 3 May 2012 – Italian merchants funded England’s discovery of North America
• 27 April 2012 – UK destroyed records of colonial crimes
• 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