Archive for 150th anniversary
Écoles laïques [150 years ago]
Posted in Statistics with tags 150th anniversary, 1870 Franco-Prussian war, Commune de Paris, free education, French history, Paris, Paris siege, secularism on April 28, 2021 by xi'an
proclamation de la Commune [150 years ago]
Posted in Statistics with tags 150th anniversary, 1870 Franco-Prussian war, Adolphe Thiers, Belleville, Butte Montmartre, Commune de Paris, French history, Garde nationale, Napoléon III, Paris, proclamation, Versailles on March 18, 2021 by xi'an
Rooibos tax for aboriginal communities
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags 150th anniversary, Alexander McCall Smith, Aspalathus, Botswana, Khoi people, Nature, N⁰1 Ladies Detective Agency, red tea, Rooibos, San people, South Africa on January 25, 2020 by xi'an
Just read in the 150th anniversary issue of Nature that the South African Government had agreed to a share of the rooibos tea profits be reversed to the aboriginal San and Khoi communities. Following a lengthy debate on whether or not rooibos tea was in use before European settlers invaded the area. I cannot remember when I started drinking rooibos but it may have been connected with reading my first book of the delicious Mma Ramotswe and the №1 Ladies Detective Agency series…! Which author, Alexander McCall Smith is a self-declared tea addict. (Since the story is located in Botswana, I have no idea whether or not tea is exported from this country and if the benefits reach the local communities.)
