Koh-i-Noor The jewel in the British crown with a murky past (Summery two)

 A unique irreplaceable diamond with a cursed history and since 19th century it's been a part of the British Crown Jewels. Jaswinder a descendant of the Maharaja who owed the diamond is still trying to claim the diamond back throughout the years. Many stories were written about this diamond but the author Edwim W Streeter wrote about the passage of the diamond and what value it has. The author traveled between UK and India to know the bloody cursed history of the diamond since 1304 till 1849. The stone was a war price to the British royalty and it was recutted. Reducing the size of the jewel wasn't an easy job it took 38 days to finish such a job, but in the end it was placed in Crystal palace in London's Hyde Park. The history that was written by Edwin was well-studied that he noted where the jewel started from and who wore it from the British royalty. A text from the 14^th century described who will be allowed to wear the stone “Mr sandhanwalia, who is clearly neither, should perhaps consider this before his claim much further” (Gornall, 2012).

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References

Gornall, J. (2012, September 13). Koh-i-Noor: The jewel in the British crown with a very murky past - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/koh-i-noor-the-jewel-in-the-british-crown-with-a-very-murky-past.

Fertile past unearthed from sands of Arabia (summery one)

Studying the Arabian peninsula and with the help of NASA's satellites experts will be able to understand how people used to travel 100,000 years ago. It also tell how climate change from a fertile to a desert area. Professor Petraglia knows how important the Arabian Peninsula is; also he will be leading the project of excavating and studying different sites there. The target is to change archaeologists idea of this land not being fertile by studying site like Yemen, UAE, Oman and parts of Saudi Arabia. African tools were found in Bab Al Mandab that guided the archaeologists to the methods and areas they travelled back then. First is studying the water sources and lakes through the pictures of the area provided by NASA, and then the challenging part which is to foloow these images through the weather conditions. A lake location was found and it showed the lifestyle of people who lived next to it 100,000 years ago. The study will show how people made it through the weather change through the past two million years of mankind.

References

King's College London -  Media coverage: January - June 2012. (n.d.).        King's College London -  Home. Retrieved March 3, 2013, from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/news/Mediacoverage/2012-january-june.aspx

Water Crisis in Yemen (Mini-report)

It's hard time for women and children to go through every day for water; they don’t have good methods to transport water nor can they afford to pump free water to their houses. The old government worked on solving that problem but after the revolution the new government didn't give this issues any attention. They said soon they will start working on it; by trying to stop the random wells digging and to preserve rain water. A huge amount of water is being wasted on planting Qat which is a drug and it can’t be eaten. Authorities are thinking about rainwater tanks which will help villagers to have easy access to water without being forced to travel for a long distance.  The new government should make an effort to try helping people in Yemen now or in 10 years it’s going to be a disaster due to their region climate and increase in population.

References

Time running out for solution to Yemen's water crisis | Global development | guardian.co.uk . (2012, August 27).  Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian | guardiannews.com | The Guardian . Retrieved March 19, 2013, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/27/solution-yemen-water-crisis

Al-Muraqab, A. (2012, September 13). A daily struggle to fetch water | Yemen Times.  Yemen Times. Retrieved March 19, 2013, from http://www.yementimes.com/en/1607/report/1391/A-daily-struggle-to-fetch-water.htm

Solar Superstorm

UK can cope with solar superstorm

In case of solar superstorm struck the earth how well prepared UK’s infrastructure is and all what might is electricity blackouts.
Other problem might occur are disturbances with the Navigation system and aviation system, somehow it would be similar to the Icelandic volcano eruption [in 2010].

Our sun expose earth to smaller solarstorms which effected electronics devices through the years but it’s very rare to occur even though the National electric grid panel is prepared for such an event.

Satellites would be effected by these solarstorms so they were already made is a way that they can survive with minor damages and fixed as fast as possible that includes the GPS satellites.

Also damages to GPS would cause disturbance through the communications between ships and the navigation system.

How Aeroplane avionics are vulnerable and can be damaged easily with more contact with such an extreme sun rays.

How much of sun rays can a passenger take in normal conditions and what’s the dangerous amount.

Finally the RAEng recommends the UK government to take an extra precaution to space weather.



References
Amos, J. (2013, February 7). BBC News - UK 'can cope with solar superstorm'. BBC - Homepage. Retrieved February 12, 2013, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21357909


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