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Mother Nature Network A camera, a microscope and a lot of patience results in these surprisingly beautiful images.
Where you see a bug, Levon Biss sees a portrait
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Incredible bug photos by Levon Biss are not only beautiful, they allow entomologists to see insects in a new way.
114 months ago
CNNMoney Photographer Levon Biss zooms allllllll the way in on insects from around the world. http://cnnmon.ie/1sxSdfM via WIRED
118 months ago
Obinna Joseph Navy denies killing MASSOB members Biafra
Must Come, No going Back ….MASSOB
Message to Buhari… You must fear the igbos,,
FOR NNAMDI KANU, IT IS SUNSET AT NOON,
by Obidi Egeonu Biafra was an ancient
country which appeared first in the map of the
w Read more ... orld drawn by the Portuguese explorers
between 1492 and 1729 located in the African
continent. The map is still available today in
the British Library and other Libraries of the
world and shows Biafra as a large country
then spelt variously as “Biafara”, “Biafar” and
“Biafares” having boundaries with such
ancient empires as Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan,
Bini, Kamerun, Congo, Gabon, and others. It
was in 1843 that the Map of Africa showed
the country spelt as “Biafra” having some
parts of the modern day Cameroon within its
boundary including the disputed Bakassi
Peninsula. The original territory of Biafra was
not restricted to the present Eastern Nigeria
alone. According to the ancient maps, the
Portuguese travelers used the word “Biafara”
to describe the entire region of the Lower
Niger River and eastwards up to the
Cameroon Mountain and down to the eastern
coastal tribes, thus including parts of the
modern day Cameroon and Gabon. The
ancient Map of Africa in 1662 shows the three
kingdoms in West Africa from where Nigeria
was created, namely: The Kingdom of Biafra in
the East, The Kingdom of Benin in the West
and The Kingdom of Zamfara in the North.
Every indigenous person inhabiting the
country now called Nigeria has his or her
ancestral root from one of these three ancient
kingdoms. From the records of history, Biafra
had existed on the Map of Africa for more
than 400 years before Nigeria was created in
1914. The British had diplomatic dealings
with Biafrans before the new country called
Nigeria was created. John Beecroft was the
British Consul of the Bight of Biafra from 30th
June 1849 to 10th June 1854 with his
headquarters in Fernando Po in the Bight of
Biafra. The city of Fernando Po is now called
Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. It was from the
Bight of Biafra that John Beecroft, eager to
control the trade in the west and supported by
Christian missionaries at Badagry, bombarded
Lagos which became a British colony in 1851
and was formally ceded to Queen Victoria, the
Queen of England in 1861, in whose honour
Victoria Island Lagos was named. Thus, the
British had established their presence in
Biafraland before they annexed Lagos in
1861. The left part of the Gulf of Guinea
opposite the Bight of Biafra was designated
on the Map of Africa as Bight of Benin. The
word “Bight” is an ancient English word for
“Bay”. The ancient Kingdom of Biafra in the
East had its western neighbour as the
Kingdom of Benin. Therefore, Biafra was a
sovereign entity with its own geographical
territory clearly shown on the Map of Africa
before the coming of the Europeans just like
the ancient nations of Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan,
etc. The Biafra Nation practised autonomous
democracies among its clans as practised
among the Ibos today. Actually, the Republic
of Biafra which was declared in 3 1967 by
General Odumegwu Ojukwu was not a new
country but an attempt to restore the ancient
Biafra Nation that existed before Nigeria was
created by the British. The map of Biafra was
deleted in 1884 – 1885 in the Berlin
Conference in Germany when the Europeans
and Americans placed the map of Africa on a
table and shared the lands of Africa among
themselves as colonies which act is known in
history as the Scramble for Africa. They
colonized the lands of Africa and created
some new countries and redrew the maps.
Unfortunately, in dividing the lands of Africa
among themselves, they deleted the Map of
Biafra and other ancient maps on the African
Continent and merged different peoples
together to create new countries without
knowing the native tribal boundaries. One of
the new countries they created was Nigeria.
This arbitrary sharing of the lands of Africa
and creating artificial boundaries to merge
incompatible tribes into one nation has
caused much spilling of blood in Africa. Some
of the indigenous people of Biafra were carved
into Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, etc. Most of the
descendants of the ancestors of Biafraland
have lost their ancestral root but only the Ibos
are still boldly upholding their ancestral
identity as descendants of indigenous people
of Biafra. I have underlined the word, boldly,
because there are some Biafrans in the South-
South and Middle Belt who are afraid to
declare their identity in public because of the
fear of persecution. Only the Ibos are being
persecuted for their Biafranness and their
gospel of Biafranism. It is very clear that
within Nigeria, some clans have renounced
their Biafran identity. The fear of persecution
associated with the name of BIAFRA is the
factor that has caused many Biafrans to deny
their identity as the law appears too weak to
protect them. — paper presented by Emeka
Adolphus Chigozie Emekesri
123 months ago
Slate.com The publisher’s very good 2014 wasn’t a fluke, but a culmination.
How the Tiny Graywolf Press Became a Big Player in Book Publishing
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This article originally appeared in New York magazine. Before she won multiple awards and wrote one of the Times Book Review’s top-ten books of 2014, the young poet Eula Biss tried to sell a book of essays to major publishing houses. “They were l Read more ... ooking to push her into a more polemical voice,” says her literary...
127 months ago
Graywolf Press ON IMMUNITY (http://bit.ly/1GphfPW), The Most Mom-Friendly Vaccine Book! Thanks, The Daily Beast!
The Most Mom-Friendly Vaccine Book
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An elegant history of vaccination—from female healers and 19th-century vampires to modern epidemics—and a ringing defense of women trying to make the best decisions for their families, Eula Biss’s “On Immunity” is a must-read.
131 months ago
The Daily Beast "If she doesn’t want to vaccinate her child, the rest of us can offer that child the protection from disease afforded by herd immunity."
The Most Mom-Friendly Vaccine Book
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An elegant history of vaccination—from female healers and 19th-century vampires to modern epidemics—and a ringing defense of women trying to make the best decisions for their families, Eula Biss’s “On Immunity” is a must-read.
131 months ago
Graywolf Press “'Our fears are dear to us,' writes Eula Biss in her powerful and important book, ON IMMUNITY. Biss notes that a lot of the parents who are skeptical of vaccinations, like we were, are the same people who worry about hormones in meat and pesticides Read more ... on vegetables. We’ve been told by our industry-cozy government that these things aren’t toxic, but we suspect that’s not right. We seek out farm-to-table food and even organic baby wipes as a prudent expression of that caution and care."
The Daily Beast explores vaccinations below!
I Didn’t Vaccinate My Child—And I Regret It
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How I finally discovered that vaccinating your kids is the right thing to do.
134 months ago
Salon "Fear is celebrated and used as a justification for all types of violent actions..."
“We seem to be more frightened than we’ve ever been”: Eula Biss on anti-vaxxers, white privilege and
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The essayist Eula Biss tells Salon how she got to know the anti-vaccine crowd -- and how she learned real empathy
134 months ago