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When Kandyan Sinhala Aristocrats First Saw The Ocean …..
T๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐’๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ….Illustrated by the leading Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) artist of the 19th Century, J. L. K. van Dort in 1886. The composition by van Dort is arranged almost theatrically. At … Continue reading
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Memories: Growing Up Jewish in New York
Richard Koenigsberg Just to go back in time a bit. Before High School, I lived in a lower-middle class neighborhood, (Irvington, New Jersey). I lot of Italians, Poles, etc., although I didn’t pay much attention to ethnicity. Many of the … Continue reading
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Military Overreach and Peacekeeping Failures: West Asia vs Sri Lanka
Navigator of Pearl and Persian Currents … with highlighting being the imposition of The Editor, Thuppahi Interventions, meant to stabilize, often alienate all parties, and can lead to prolonged, difficult conflicts where the intervening force finds itself fighting against former … Continue reading
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Rare Birds: Sri Lanka Only……Layard’s Parakeet
Layard’s parakeet ……….. from Wikipedia Layard’s parakeet Female eating fruit inย Sri Lanka Conservation status Least Concernย ย (IUCN 3.1)[1] CITESย Appendix IIโฏ[2] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittaculidae Genus: Psittacula Species: P.ย calthrapae Binomial name Psittacula calthrapae (Blyth, … Continue reading
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Hanson’s Australia and the Rise of Populism
Vox Populi TAKE IN THIS ITEM: ….https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/poll-predicts-one-nation-federal-opposition/106714586 One Nation inherits the right-wing throne ….. Australia faces a fractured, Americanised future….. The Liberals are dead. One Nation is predicted to become the new opposition, resulting in the total destruction and annihilation … Continue reading
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Sport and Pastime in British Ceylon
Michael Roberts, presenting an old unpubd article drafted in the 1990s ….with highlights being Today’s insertions It is feasible to suggest that leisure activity blossomed in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century. As European society was re-ordered by … Continue reading
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Australia’s Imperialist Face towards the Solomon Islands
Fair Dinkum, … an original essay in response to A Note from Darini Rajasingham (reproduced below)ย … but with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavareโs statement that a country intends to invade Solomon Islands … Continue reading
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