Friday, November 30, 2018

Story of a Neuro-Scientist


When King George III of England began to show signs of acute mania toward the end of his reign, rumors about the royal madness multiplied quickly in the public mind. One legend had it that George tried to shake hands with a tree, believing it to be the King of Prussia. Another described how he was …


Odds and ends

The Jews of Sri Lanka - email from Nihal Gooneratne
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/11/25/galilee-galle-ancient-jewish-connection

Philip Veersingam

4:29 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Nihal
Nihal,
Thanks for the article. Prof. Ranasinghe's wife Anne was Jewish. She was sent off to England from Germany when Hitler came to power. Her entire family died in the Holocaust. She became a famous writer and poetess of Sri Lanka.There is a record by Greek writers of a Synagogue in the ancient port  of Mannar where a few Jews were resident, at the beginning of the Present Era.
Philip