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Thunmann: De 750 de ani sunt cunoscuți sub numele de vlahi
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Grecii îi numeau în derâdere cuțovlahi, albanezii le spuneau ciobani
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Prisoners of War
George Kennen
THE world war, novel in so many of its phases, is no less new in its aspect of the prisoner question. Numbers, treatment, direct and indirect results from prisoners taken in the Great War are all setting a new standard, blazing a fresh trail. In this article from 27íe Outlook, the distinction and differences are set out, and salient commentary upon the comparison between the Allies’ and the Huns’ treatment of prisoners is added.
The present European war differs in many respects from any previous war recorded in history, and among the most striking and noteworthy of its peculiarities is the immense number of prisoners taken on both sides. The Germans say that they have captured more than 600,000 mostly Russians; the Russians declare that they hold nearly half a million, including Austrians, Germans, Turks, and Kurds; the Allies have probably taken 200,000 in Belgium, France, Africa, and Manchuria; and the Turks have gathered in a few thousand mor
Some University Heads
McGILL
William. Peterson, M.A., LL.D., C.M.G., Principal of McGill University, is a native of the Scottish capital, where he was born in 1856. He has had a distinguished academic career. Educated at the Edinburgh High School and the University, of Edinburgh, he graduated in 1875 with high honors in classics. He subsequently studied at the University of Gottingen, and in 1876 won a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. For two years he was Assistant Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh. Thereafter he held the position of Principal of University College, Dundee, until in May, 1895, he was chosen to succeed Sir J. W. Dawson at McGill.
How a Ghanaian slave became a respected philosopher in Germany
One of the many slaves to have left the shores of Ghana did so in the year 1730.
At age four, the story of his life began, not on a good note, but little did he know it will lead to something great.
Anton Wilhelm Amo was his name, born in 1703 and hailed from Axim in the Western region of present-day Ghana.
According to records, Wilhelm Amo was taken to Amsterdam by a preacher working in Ghana to serve the Dutch West Indies Company.
Slavery which is now frowned upon and abolished all over the world was rather a norm at the time as Wilhelm Amo was later given out as a gift’ to Dukes August Wilhelm and Ludwig Rudolf von Wolfenbüttel in Germany as a child-slave.
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