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Ireland was a laboratory for empire: While million starved grain was hoarded 

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In the 1800s, as Britain became the world’s most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. In 1847, Richard Webb, the rector of Caheragh, County Cork, sent a group of men to check on his parishioners. On arriving at a cluster of cottages, they were turned back by farmers who told them, “those houses are cursed”. Webb persisted sending another emissary who discovered the corpses of the Barry family there, half-eaten by dogs. The cleric wrote: “I need make no comment on this but ask, are we living in a portion of the United Kingdom?”. The Great Irish famine fractured long held … Continue reading Ireland was a laboratory for empire: While million starved grain was hoarded 

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The Great Mughals

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THE GREAT MUGHALS – ART, ARCHITECTURE AND OPULENCE.Average entry price £22. CLOSES 5 MAY. VICTORIA AND ALBERTMUSEUM – MANY OTHER SECTIONS IN THE V AND A COMPLETELYFREE OF CHARGE. CLOSE TO A NUMBER OF TUBE STATIONS – CHECKWITH TFL FOR MORE DETAILS for example OF STAIRS FREE ACCESS. A piece of history miraculously conserved and displayed in manyforms.This detailed and awe inspiring exhibition celebrates the Golden Ageof the Mughal court in India (about 1560 – 1660) under the reigns ofAkbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.https://www.vam.ac.uk/southkensington/visit.See the bejewelled dagger and scabbard (c 1620), the portrait ofShah Jahan holding an emerald by Muhammad … Continue reading The Great Mughals

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Origins of BMW

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Two engineers Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto founded on 7th March 1916, when an aircraft produced called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke formerly Otto Flugmascjomemfabrik) was established. They were not building cars, but were aircraft engines for Germany during World War I, so Germany their powerful engines can fly higher than ever. In 1918 everything changed Germany lost the war and the Treaty of Versallies banned them from making aircraft engines. This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke in 1922. On the edge of collapse in 1923 they started making motorcycles BMW R32, a motorcycle that set speed records farm equipment, household items … Continue reading Origins of BMW

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Episodic and digressive bitter history

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BBC journalist and film maker, Nick Thorpe makes an evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine, in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some 1500km long, with its threatened landscape, people, history and talks woodland management in the ancient forests of northern Romania, with an expert nicknamed Ion Barbu; “Beardy John” A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, it’s people contend daily with the elements- as well as Europe’s last large carnivores. But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat, from climate change and illegal logging. The Silvi-culturist … Continue reading Episodic and digressive bitter history

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Everyday heroism of one community

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Robert Seethaler’s characters are unassuming, resilient and witness to a world that seems to rage especially around them.  It is 1966, Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a Robert Simon, an ordinary man whose blue eyes “were the only handsome thing about him”, and who takes over a rundown café in “ one of the poorest and dirtiest” districts in bustling Vienna. He recruits a barmaid Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bringing their own stories … Continue reading Everyday heroism of one community

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Behind every mistake there is a great invention

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Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, head of family owned Taittinger Champagne, made a comment in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper by saying “ I love England, It’s a big market for bubbles. They love Champagne. They created Champagne because of a mistake. Benedictine monks were supplying with still wines from Champagne, red and white wine. The English left these inexpensive still white wines on the London docks and the wines got cold so they started undergoing a second fermentation causing them to become carbonated accidently. Like all great mistakes, it led a to great invention”.  As the English have a little crazy … Continue reading Behind every mistake there is a great invention

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“An empire within an empire”, Grandest society of merchants

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In 1800s British East India Company conquers India, and by the beginning of the 19th century, as one of its directors admitted “an empire within an empire”, with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the east having ruled India for 200 years. The East India Company created a sophisticated administration and civil service in India, and built much of London’s Docklands. Its annual spending in Britain £8.5m exceeded about a quarter of total British government annual expenditure. They successfully transferred India’s then prospering GDP to Britain. It is no wonder the Company now referred to itself as “the … Continue reading “An empire within an empire”, Grandest society of merchants

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Electric vertical takeoff taxi to be launched in India

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Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft explores more about sustainable mobility solutions in Bangaluru (Bangalore) India’s Silicon Valley and a major IT HUB, where 80% of all the global IT giants have their offices in Bangaluru. Bangaluru’s economic contribution is a lot. The city boasts a GDP of $110 billion. The city’s GDP makes up over 87% of Karnataka’s total GDP. The Bangalore IT hub contributes the most (34% to 40%) of the total IT exports of India. Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has partnered with Sarla Aviations named after Sarla Thakaral India’s first woman pilot to launch electric flying taxis, offering a 19-minute trip to … Continue reading Electric vertical takeoff taxi to be launched in India

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Budget Airlines fined based on their “illicit profit”

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Spain has fined Ryan Air and four other budget airlines a total of  €179m (£149m) for “abusive practices” including charging for hand luggage. Ryanair has been given the largest fine of €108m (£90m), followed by EasyJet’s penalty of €29m (£24m). Vueling, Norwegian and Volotea were issued with sanctions by Spain’s Consumer Rights Ministry on Friday. The ministry also said it  plans to ban practices such as charging extra for carry-on hand luggage and reserving seats for children. The fines are the biggest sanction issued by the ministry, and follow an investigation into the budget airline industry. Vueling, the budget arm … Continue reading Budget Airlines fined based on their “illicit profit”

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Electrical vertical take-off taxi dreams crashed as cash runs short

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Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city. The company ran several demonstration flight although it never happened commercially. While missing that deadline, Volocopter was seeking fresh investment to keep the firm going, as talks to borrow ¢100m (£83m)  from the government evaporated in April. Now hopes are pinned on China’s Geely, which is in talks to take over 85 per cent stake in Volocopter in return for $95m of funding, which could mean future manufacture would be moved to China. Volocopter and dozens of there companies around the world developing an … Continue reading Electrical vertical take-off taxi dreams crashed as cash runs short