8,500-YEAR OLD DUGOUT

Dugout found at Pesse, Dreate, Netherlands, dated 6500BC.

Jungle tribe in S. America making a dugout from a tree trunk.

CORTEZ RAZED AZTEC CIVILISATION

THE TAKING OF AUSTRALIA

THE ABORIGENES - ORANG ASLI

Recorded history of (later) migration from Yunnan that reached the Malay Peninsula c. 4000 years ago.

Among the early settlements at Harimau (Tiger) Cave, north of Perak (green square).

The aborigines,  Orang Asli later day inhabitants.

Cave dwellers

THE BUILDER OF EIFFEL TOWER

ALL THE PRESIDENTS

Soekarno, the first and most famous and charismatic President of Indonesia. A fallen hero. Jokowi is the current President.

Soekarno, young before becoming President.

With Ho Chi Minh

With Lee Kuan Yew

 With King Bumiphol and Queen Sirikit, Thailand

DEATH OF THE MAMMOTH

When the Berezovka mammoth was discovered sticking out of a river bank in Siberia, the flesh of its skull was partly eaten away by wolves, but its body and huge front legs were perfectly preserved.

ERUPTION OF KRAKATAO

The eruption of Krakatau in 1883 destroyed over half of the land.

30,000 YEARS OLD CAVE PAINTINGS, FRANCE

AL QURAN MAGHRIBI 1568

Al Quran Maghribi 1568. Dibuat untuk Sultan Abd. Allah dari Moroko.

AMERICAN WOMAN

American woman as depicted during Ottoman time, already bare breasted!

JESUS HAD A WIFE?

ATLANTIS - THE LOST CITY

The lost city of Atlantis is a myth?

Conjectures abound as to its whereabout.

HAN SUYIN, OF EAST AND WEST

Han Suyin, admixture of East and West. A writer of many books including 'The Good Earth' and 'Return from Chungking'.

Her house, Singapore (?).

HUBBACK, THE GAME WARDEN WAS HERE

Theodore Hubback used to shoot big game. Now he conserves it.

Hubback lives here, Kuala Lipis, Pahang

FRENCH PRETEXT FOR INVASION, 1830

France invaded Algeria in 1830.

 

The pretexts to wars for empire builders and belligerents can be as flimsy as simple provocations, false flags, self aggrandizements.

 

JACK CHIA - THE FOUNDER OF MPH

MPH  which stands for Malaysia Publishing House has a successful chain of bookstores in Malaysia and Singapore. 

MPH building at Stamford Road, 1964.

Jack Chia aka Jate Chiarapurte.