Recently, I came across an interesting article stating that the Chinese and Mongolian races believe that they, the bradycephalic Mongoloid races, especially of Southeast Asia, including North East India, are descendants of the 'Dragon',their venerated animal, who is also known as the 'Reptilian Alien', as the Mongoloid races appeared ' Alien' to the Westerners when…
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New evidence comprehensively debunks the 19th century’s colonial Aryan Invasion Theory and its late 20th century refinement, the Indo-Aryan Migration theory.
Begriffe und die Entwicklung ihrer historischen und kulturellen Zusammenhänge werden betrachtet – oft anhand ihrer kollektiven Beschreibung in Wikipedia. Daran anknüpfend stehen die Methoden der Beschreibung komplexer Phänomene ebenso im Blickfeld wie die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, die dabei genutzt werden.
I’m a Wikimedian, based in Sydney. I am a project officer for ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) working on helping Australian cultural organisations use Creative Commons. I’m also the 2012 Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. My username everywhere is “Wittylama” - an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have a bachelors in Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university medal. Currently studying for a Masters in IP law from QUT/WIPO.
"Für den Doktoranden der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Michael Schonhardt erweist sich die semioffizielle Wissenschaftskommunikation über Social Media als fruchtbar. So können schon kleine Funde aus dem laufenden Forschungsprozess von Jedermann veröffentlicht werden. Darin sieht der Mediävist eine Parallele zur Kommunikationsstruktur der frühen Geschichtswissenschaft."
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On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull 'Inter caetera' (Among other [works]), which granted to Spain all lands to the "west and south" of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands.
On October 4, 1903, American physicist and inventor John Vincent Atanasoff was born. He is best known for being considered as one of the inventors of the electronic digital computer.