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Nowadays you will see lots of Americans protesting against Trump, George Bush. Why in those days Americans didn't protest against Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon?
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html
There are other reports that American politicians in 1971, 1972 were trying their best that, the international community should never discuss mass killings and rapes by Pakistan Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawliht ( talk o contribs) 02:06, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Reading an old (now modified) version of our article Page 3 index.php?title=Page_3&oldid=1036564071
A number of Page 3 models, including Fox, Whittaker, and Ashby, began their topless modelling careers aged 16, which was legally permitted in the UK until the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum age for topless modelling to 18.
My question is, what about people and institutions (such as libraries) who keep archives of old (pre-2003) versions of The Sun, which contain topless photos of 16 and 17 year olds? Are these libraries and individuals guilty of possessing child pornography?
I'm sure Great Britain has its "central library" which keeps archived versions of old newspapers, but, not being from the UK, I don't know the exact name of the institution(s) in question. (Maybe the British Library, judging by a quick google search?). Are/were they required to go through their old archives and destroy all pre-2003 "page 3s" which depict 16 and 17-year olds topless? Have they done so? If not, are they breaking the law? (Does the law contain a grandfather clause for material produced back when such material was legal?)
Obligatory disclaimer: I do not live in the U.K., so I'm not asking for legal advice. Eliyohub ( talk) 04:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Do we know how the ancient Persians or Greeks would have called Tibet or the Tibetan Empire? Was it mentioned in one of the geographical treaties? The Great Zaganza ( talk) 08:07, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
It has even been suggested that this name is to be found in Ptolemy and the Periplus Maris Erythraei, a first-century Greek narrative, where the river Bautisos and a people called the Bautai are mentioned in connexion with a region of Central Asia. But we have no knowledge of the existence of Tibetans at that time.These Greek terms may be related to modern Tibetan names for their own land. However, as it notes, that as an ethnic group, it is not clear that Tibetans existed during the period of ancient Greece (That's not surprising, given the way culture and ethnicity evolve, ignoring things like the names of ethnic groups, most modern ethnic groups would not be recognizable as such that far back). The traditional narrative of the Tibetan empire is that it traces itself back through the Yarlung dynasty, which is likely mythical; the evidence of a Tibetan state before the 8th century is tenuous at best. Histories of the time period before then are not unlike Norse kings tracing their lineage back to Odin. From what I am reading in Wikipedia articles, there is only the slightest evidence that the Greeks or Persians of ancient times had any awareness of people groups living on the Tibetan plateau of the time, and that there is also scant evidence of these people living in state societies at that time. -- Jayron 32 12:06, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
...it is quite clear that the Arabs were aware of the actual location of Tibet from the earliest times — and certainly no later than when the geographer Ibn Khurdâdhbih wrote in the mid-ninth century.See also Akasoy, Anna (2009). "Alexander in the Himalayas". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 72: 1–20. JSTOR 40593762. fiveby( zero) 12:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Existence of Tibetan political state is different question. But has it been guessed by Genetic science since when Tibetan evolved some distinct features to make life breathable?
I know this question should go ideally in science forum but since already a topic is being discussed I prefered to ask here.-- Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookku ( talk o contribs)
Help me understand, as I understand it, the United States lost 405k military (161k in the war with Japan, 200k in the war with Germany and 40k in continental America who died of wounds). But the US lost 79k missing in action. There's a column in the State Department records called "declared dead," which I take to be missing persons whose death has been confirmed. But the remaining 73k missing are counted among the dead or are they counted separately? And is the Pacific front the most bloody for the United States? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.145.61.199 ( talk) 09:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
What was on the site of Tower Hotel, London before Tower Hotel? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 22:28, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
most of the original warehouses around the western basin were demolished and replaced by [...] the bulky Tower Hotel. So that makes it sound like the answer is warehouses. Card Zero (talk) 23:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
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Nowadays you will see lots of Americans protesting against Trump, George Bush. Why in those days Americans didn't protest against Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon?
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html
There are other reports that American politicians in 1971, 1972 were trying their best that, the international community should never discuss mass killings and rapes by Pakistan Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawliht ( talk o contribs) 02:06, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Reading an old (now modified) version of our article Page 3 index.php?title=Page_3&oldid=1036564071
A number of Page 3 models, including Fox, Whittaker, and Ashby, began their topless modelling careers aged 16, which was legally permitted in the UK until the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum age for topless modelling to 18.
My question is, what about people and institutions (such as libraries) who keep archives of old (pre-2003) versions of The Sun, which contain topless photos of 16 and 17 year olds? Are these libraries and individuals guilty of possessing child pornography?
I'm sure Great Britain has its "central library" which keeps archived versions of old newspapers, but, not being from the UK, I don't know the exact name of the institution(s) in question. (Maybe the British Library, judging by a quick google search?). Are/were they required to go through their old archives and destroy all pre-2003 "page 3s" which depict 16 and 17-year olds topless? Have they done so? If not, are they breaking the law? (Does the law contain a grandfather clause for material produced back when such material was legal?)
Obligatory disclaimer: I do not live in the U.K., so I'm not asking for legal advice. Eliyohub ( talk) 04:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Do we know how the ancient Persians or Greeks would have called Tibet or the Tibetan Empire? Was it mentioned in one of the geographical treaties? The Great Zaganza ( talk) 08:07, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
It has even been suggested that this name is to be found in Ptolemy and the Periplus Maris Erythraei, a first-century Greek narrative, where the river Bautisos and a people called the Bautai are mentioned in connexion with a region of Central Asia. But we have no knowledge of the existence of Tibetans at that time.These Greek terms may be related to modern Tibetan names for their own land. However, as it notes, that as an ethnic group, it is not clear that Tibetans existed during the period of ancient Greece (That's not surprising, given the way culture and ethnicity evolve, ignoring things like the names of ethnic groups, most modern ethnic groups would not be recognizable as such that far back). The traditional narrative of the Tibetan empire is that it traces itself back through the Yarlung dynasty, which is likely mythical; the evidence of a Tibetan state before the 8th century is tenuous at best. Histories of the time period before then are not unlike Norse kings tracing their lineage back to Odin. From what I am reading in Wikipedia articles, there is only the slightest evidence that the Greeks or Persians of ancient times had any awareness of people groups living on the Tibetan plateau of the time, and that there is also scant evidence of these people living in state societies at that time. -- Jayron 32 12:06, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
...it is quite clear that the Arabs were aware of the actual location of Tibet from the earliest times — and certainly no later than when the geographer Ibn Khurdâdhbih wrote in the mid-ninth century.See also Akasoy, Anna (2009). "Alexander in the Himalayas". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 72: 1–20. JSTOR 40593762. fiveby( zero) 12:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Existence of Tibetan political state is different question. But has it been guessed by Genetic science since when Tibetan evolved some distinct features to make life breathable?
I know this question should go ideally in science forum but since already a topic is being discussed I prefered to ask here.-- Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookku ( talk o contribs)
Help me understand, as I understand it, the United States lost 405k military (161k in the war with Japan, 200k in the war with Germany and 40k in continental America who died of wounds). But the US lost 79k missing in action. There's a column in the State Department records called "declared dead," which I take to be missing persons whose death has been confirmed. But the remaining 73k missing are counted among the dead or are they counted separately? And is the Pacific front the most bloody for the United States? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.145.61.199 ( talk) 09:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
What was on the site of Tower Hotel, London before Tower Hotel? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 22:28, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
most of the original warehouses around the western basin were demolished and replaced by [...] the bulky Tower Hotel. So that makes it sound like the answer is warehouses. Card Zero (talk) 23:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)