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- Everybody Clap Your Hands
Upon reaching Lhasa after invading Tibet , Francis Younghusband wrote:
“On the very day after our arrival I and all my staff donned our full-dress uniforms, and with an escort of three hundred men, including some of the Royal Fusiliers and a sort of band from the Gurkhas, we marched right through the city of Lhasa [...]
- Chirol’s Clash of Civilizations
Today’s Victorian fact of the day is this:
In 1924, long before Samuel Huntington coined his catch-phrase the “clash of civilizations,” Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol gave a lecture at the Harris Foundation in which he said that the discord and conflicts which divide east and west “arise out of a clash of different , and in [...]
