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Sun Sep 29 2002 at 17:59:51 The Highland clearances of the 1760s to 1880s are some of the most controversial and emotion-fraught events in Scotland's long history. Poverty-stricken tenants and their families were evicted from long-held land by landlords keen to make money by farming sheep on the land. Some of the most horrific clearances took place at Strathnaver in Sutherland in 1814, but they had begun some time before this, principally at Glengarry, near Knoydart and Fort William. Evicted families were often forced onto the coastline to fish or gather kelp. Some landlords, or lairds, trie...

Global Covid-19 deaths pass two million AFP © Provided by New Straits Times General View of the Woodlawn Cemetery in New York on January 15, 2021 as the global coronavirus death toll surpassed 2 million. - The official global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 2 million on January 15, 2021, according to Johns Hopkins University. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) PARIS: Total confirmed deaths from Covid-19 around the world passed two million on Friday, according to a count by AFP. As of 1825 GMT on Friday, 2,000,066 people have died of the virus since it first ...

A lady walks into a bar and says in desperation rather than humor: “Take my politician, please!” Americans of all political persuasions are looking for leadership that can quickly end this bizarre darkness in which we find ourselves. Politicians and even some of us found ourselves in the draconian position weighing the scales of working for a paycheck against contracting Covid-19.  A General View of the Economy  Consumer spending, the engine of the market, has nearly lifted the U.S. economy out of the COVID hole of the spring months and a resurgent fall and early winter. An antici...

The BBC Is Struggling to Survive the Era of Fake News Bloomberg 12/20/2020 Max Hastings © Photographer: Peter Summers/Getty Images Europe LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 29: General View of BBC Broadcasting House on January 29, 2020 in London, England. The BBC announced today that it is to cut 450 jobs by 2022 in an effort to save GBP 80 Million. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images) (Bloomberg Opinion) -- A group of Zurich University researchers this year published a study comparing the vulnerability of 18 advanced societies to online misinformation. The best defended, they co...