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Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas

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Victory that was owed to the cumbersomely named Hydrographical Office, the Royal Navy Department responsible for its charts, detailed maps of seas and coasts, with tidal ranges, water depths and other essential relevant details, after the battle of Copenhagen, in 1801, confronted by a formidable fixed line of Danish ships supported from the land, Admiral Horatio Nelson had to make a bold decision . Should he risk taking his ships into the narrow, shallow channel where the enemy lay, so that Nelson’s three ships ran aground before the battle had properly begun?  Admiral Parker, the commander of the British fleet, … Continue reading Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas

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You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs

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Indian born Fareed Zakaria, who claim to be America’s best-known tutor on world events, quotes from Civilisation, the classic 1960s BBC series narrated by Kenneth Clark, an art historian.“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.” Kenneth Clark said. Age of Revolutions chronicles ceaseless action and reaction , progress and backlash, that has been endemic to the modern age. Zakaria  dates the birth of the liberal nation state to the 16th-century Netherlands, which is where  his book begins. He ends after … Continue reading You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs