I n 1884, the first correlation between beriberi and a dietary factor was made by Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese Naval doctor.

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The letter is formally addressed to Brussels, but it is aimed squarely at Jerusalem. Veldkamp gives Hamas a single vague line — calling for the release of hostages — and then devotes his legal outrage ...

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There are books you can’t put down, books that make you think, and books you buy as a present because they are quirky and you think the recipient might like them. The Hague Cookbook falls into that ...

Nobody could have suspected that it would end in extermination camps.” Those were the words of Jo Spier, a 24-year-old ...

The nation will remember those who fell in battle as this year's VE Day marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2.

Even Winston Churchill neglected to give their achievements sufficient weight in his magisterial account of the Second World ...

Australians were held on Hainan, an island off the south coast of China, where they were used as slave labour, and at Ambon in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) where prisoners died in ...

The former Black Cat had been serving in the Far East but was evacuated from Emmahaven ... forces occupied what was then known as the Dutch East Indies. Speaking to The Echo in November 2022 ...

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