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2 of 7 | A young girl in Karachi whose family did not allow her to study beyond the fourth standard; an eager girl who read all the papers especially for information on new discoveries in science and worried that there would be nothing left for her to discover if they did not let her study further; a twenty-two year old girl walking on the streets of Bombay with her brother after Partition, to find out if the city could give succour to her large family of five sisters and five brothers; a research

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Location: Kenya Summary:Today, May 12th, 2026, I started by dropping off my rental car at the airport with the help of Steve Mogul, who handled all the administrative details remotely — pretty impressive that it all worked without an office on-site. From there, I caught a 9 to 10-hour flight to Bangkok. With a 6-hour time difference from Nairobi, I ended up with about a 9-hour layover in Bangkok. But honestly, Bangkok's airport is built for long layovers — there's so much to see and do, including

Location: MalawiSummary:Today was my last full day in Lilongwe, Malawi, and I spent it wandering around the neighborhood to soak in more of the city. One thing that really stands out here is how properties are walled in — fancy ones and regular ones alike. Walls go up first, then security guards come with them. It gives an impression of safety, though you have to wonder why the walls are needed in the first place. That said, I consider Malawi a pretty safe place and had no issues walking around. At

MI’s 5 Minutes of Fame: Securing Somalia’s place in global education and knowledge. Week 35, 2026. (See Somali language version, here).Some weeks leave behind more than photographs, meetings and travel memories. They force us to pause and ask what genuinely matters. For me, this week has been about education.It has been about universities, knowledge, international collaboration and a question that has occupied my thinking for many years: where does Somali higher education belong within the global

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Inquirium Podcast. Meet hosts Michael Walker and Steven Dudley and get a first look at Episode 1, where we explore the strange and controversial phenomenon of telepathy. Episode 1 premieres September 8. Explore more: Website: https://inquiriumpodcast.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/inquiriumpodcast Shop: https://shop.inquiriumpodcast.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InquiriumPodcast Follow: @inquiriumpodcast

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Punchy Powell flew two combat tours with the 352nd Fighter Group — the Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney — in a Mustang with his home state painted on the nose: The West "by Gawd" Virginian. Then he spent the rest of his life collecting his friends' stories so they wouldn't be buried with them. He put them in a book, Bluenoser Tales, with more than four hundred photographs from the group's own archives. The book went out of print. Before he flew west in 2016, he left his son one charge: keep

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General of the elite Greek mercenary army 'The Ten Thousand', student of Socrates, effusive historian; Xenophon (431 - 354 BC) was a monumental figure in ancient Greek history. Here we have an extract from his Magnus Opus, 'The Anabasis' in which he describes encountering the ruins of two ancient cities as he and his men crossed Persia on their long journey home after taking part in a Persian civil war. He calls these cities Larisa and Mespila. Today they are generally assumed to have been ancient