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Weapons. Who is selling them? Who is buying them? Why?
Last Friday of the month, 24th of April we had our monthly meeting and discussed the global arms trade: who profits and who pays. In the world at the moment are 46 active armed conflicts. Record revenues. A trillion-dollar industry with every incentive to keep the world at war. $679bn Top 100 arms companies’ revenue…
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History Talk: May 12th. The Earth is not Flat, by Alan Hunton
Ancient civilisations had little understanding of our planet and the general opinion was that it was flat or saucer shaped. All the heavenly bodies appeared to revolve around the Earth. In this talk we will learn how Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers working in Alexandria disproved the flat Earth theory. Surprisingly they also discovered the…