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Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home

These images of military tanks were taken in Iraq, not Myanmar

Two images have been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show Myanmar army tanks that were destroyed by the anti-coup rebels. The claim is false: the photos in fact show two different Iraqi military incidents in 1991 and 2013.

Looted art, from antiquity to present-day

news Looted art, from antiquity to present-day dw.com 2 hrs ago Annabelle Steffes-Halmer There s a long history of stealing assets from other cultures. A new publication, edited by historian Benedicte Savoy, illustrates the story of various cases. © Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D. C./MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Cartoonist Udo J. Keppler commented on the ties between capitalism and private collecting at the beginning of the 20th century Who owns cultural property? At what point does it become looted art? How should museums deal with such artworks in the future? Museums recently publicly asked these questions in the wake of the debate over the restitution of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria, with Germany now committed to returning the artworks beginning next year.

Nature

Nature A young scientist retraces the work of Edward Taylor, a prolific herpetologist (a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians) who also led a double life as a spy: “Taylor was called to duty again in 1944, when he was 54 and war raged in the Pacific. According to records in the US National Archives, he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to train agents in Sri Lanka then a British territory that provided ready access to Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas that the Japanese had infiltrated. Scientific work, an OSS officer explained to one of Taylor’s superiors, was ‘excellent cover.’

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