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How Mel's 'Braveheart effect' gave huge boost to tourism


It has been more than 25 years since Mel Gibson painted his face two-thirds blue, pulled on a kilt and howled: “They may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom.”
The film won five Oscars and made box office history for its bloody battle scenes and literal cast of thousands. 
It also irked many historians for taking creative liberties with the plot.
But now it has been claimed that Braveheart did more to bring visitors to Scotland than its own national tourism body could have achieved in 20 years.
Tom Buncle, who was chief executive of the Scottish Tourist Board at the time, said nothing since has compared to the influence of Mel Gibson’s epic William Wallace tale. ....

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Since there's a bit of Neanderthal in us all - The Economic Times


Since there’s a bit of Neanderthal in us all
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Even as late as pre-March 2020, not many people would be willing to accept, much less admit, that there is a bit of the Neanderthal lurking in modern Homo sapiens.
After all, Neanderthals disappeared off the face of the earth 40,000 years ago, once we humans moved out of Africa and got cracking with this civilisation thing. But not before a few of us and a few of them hooked up in the 5,400 years we co-existed on Earth, leading to almost all non-Africans today having a smidgen of Neanderthal in their bodies. ....

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