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Something that seems to be a norm in Belize has made it’s way into the International Media’s eye. The senseless and ignorant destruction of our Belizean Heritage and History.
Who caused the destruction? A political affiliate and aspirant for the UDP party Denny Grijalva. Quote from 7NewsBelize:
The name we saw on the [...]
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The Inca Empire, at its peak, was the largest kingdom on Earth. The Incas were known as master builders, fearsome warriors, and practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet in the year 1532, this mighty state was conquered, overnight, by fewer than 200 Spanish adventurers. How could this happen? Step by step, clue by clue, Sullivan decodes [...]
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Celebrated between the Crowns of Spain and Great Britain, to reestablish Friendship and good Relations in America
Madrid, July 18, 1670
The publication of this treaty responds to the desire to present here all diplomatic documents in which can be found the origin of any right on which England might pretend to base the [...]
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By Albert Einstein
From Monthly Review, New York, May, 1949.
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
Let us first consider the question from the point [...]
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This BBC documentary details United States and Britain knew beforehand of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Much more evidence has come to light since the 1989 – when this film was put together.
For nearly 50 years, the world has believed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s declaration that the Pearl Harbor attack was a completely unexpected assault [...]
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Shared courtesy of Amauri Marconi Leal
In issue 53 of Pioneers, directed by Francisco Verdalles, appears an interesting writing signed by the chronicler of Chetumal Ignacio A. Herrera Muñoz titled “When Mexico lost Belize” (please note that between the don Ignacio and that this type of an “innocent” accent that makes a [...]
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The following article is shared with approval from nickpollard.org. The author retains absolute intellectual copyrights to the content of the article.
1940s – Early 1960’s
By: Nicholas Anthony Ignatius Pollard, Jr.
Religion and the British Colony
The colony’s forests had been depleted of its valuable logwood, mahogany, sapodilla and its sap, [...]
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At the height of its glory, this mysterious civilization ruled a territory of 125,000 square miles across parts of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. What began as a modest population of hunters and gatherers expanded into more than forty flourishing city-states who engineered sky-high temple-pyramids, ornate palaces and advanced hydraulic systems. Where did [...]
Continue Reading →Don’t let the title fool you. This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s.
Critical Thinking Question:
In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be… [...]
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British Honduras faced two obstacles to independence: British reluctance until the early 1960s to allow citizens to govern themselves, and Guatemala’s complete intransigence over its long- standing claim to the entire territory (Guatemala had repeatedly threatened to use force to take over British Honduras). By 1961, Britain was willing to let the colony become independent. [...]
Continue Reading →Colonial Rivalry Between Spain and Britain
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spain tried to maintain a monopoly on trade and colonization in its New World colonies, but northern European powers were increasingly attracted to the region by the potential for trade and settlement. These powers resorted to smuggling, piracy, and war in their efforts [...]
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No. 8 –July 21, 1961
Belize (British Honduras) – Guatemala Boundary The Geographer
Office of the Geographer
Bureau of Intelligence and Research BACKGROUND
According to British sources, occupation by Europeans of the coastal area of present-day British Honduras was begun in 1638 by shipwrecked English sailors; the discovery [...]
Continue Reading →In the current climate of widespread national security concerns in the U.S., many people worry that the threat of a nuclear attack on American soil is more plausible than ever. In this chilling program, get a firsthand look at what would happen if a nuclear bomb exploded in the heart of Washington, D.C.
With shockingly [...]
Continue Reading →Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th [...]
Continue Reading →By John Rozel Cuthbert
Oft have I lain in those dear days of old
And watched the sunlight play with wanton glee
Among the palm fronds, and, with beams of gold,
Make a myriad twinkles on a dimpling sea.
The waving music of the palms aloft,
The long blue rollers [...]
By John Rozel Cuthbert
Oft have I lain in those dear days of old
And watched the sunlight play with wanton glee
Among the palm fronds, and, with beams of gold,
Make a myriad twinkles on a dimpling sea.
The waving music of the palms aloft,
The long blue rollers [...]
