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Our Aberdeen: Say cheers to city’s whisky heritage By Phil Astley, City Archivist 14/05/2021, 2:54 pm Updated: 14/05/2021, 5:02 pm May 15 is World Whisky Day when I, along with many others, will be indulging in a dram or two…responsibly, of course! Aberdeen has a remarkably long connection with whisky. Indeed, the earliest documented reference to a still for making “aqua vite” appears in an entry dated 20th June 1505 in volume 8 of the Aberdeen Burgh Registers. “Aqua vite” in Latin means “water of life” and is the Middle Scots word for whisky. The entry was discovered b...

Last Updated: Friday, May 14, 2021 15:41 Two new collections have been inscribed in the Canada Memory of the World Register that highlight the preservation and transmission of Indigenous cultures and knowledge. The Canada Memory of the World Register was created in 2017 to promote significant documentary heritage from the first settling of the land by Indigenous Peoples to the present. It is part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program which showcases the most meaningful documents in humanity’s heritage and history.  Five Gwich’in men model replicas of 19th C. traditional caribou...

Photo: El Peruano 13:25 | Lima, May. 5. This distinction was achieved thanks to the orderly collection of copies of the newspaper, which was founded in 1825. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Documentary Corpus of the Official Gazette El Peruano comprises the Period: 1826 - First half of 1868. According to María del Pilar Agapito, a member of the Peruvian institution Memory of the World, El Peruano is the first newspaper to receive this distinction. She pointed out that this recognition will serve to protect the heritage of the journalistic medium and draw attention to its relevance. N...

New Delhi, India –  A plan to demolish part of a 130-year-old library to construct a flyover is being widely slammed in India. Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Bihar are contemplating razing the front part of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, located in the heart of the state capital, Patna. The move has triggered outrage among academics and conservationists, with dozens of the city’s prominent intellectuals urging the state government to preserve the heritage structure. The Bihar government’s bridge construction department wants to build a $50m 2.2km (1.3-mile) flyov...

Published April 7, 2021, 12:00 PM To date, approximately five percent of the world’s oceans have been explored, leaving 95 percent more to be discovered. But despite this small portion, scientists have already made remarkable discoveries, particularly in the species that inhabit the seas. One notable discovery is the “E.T. sponge.” It was first encountered in 2016 and 2017 when scientists embarked on expeditions in the Pacific led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. A close analysis of a sample of the sponge revealed that it�...