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Dear Reader,Welcome to the March – May issue of The Eye 2010, our 12th! This issue we have an interesting piece written by a very good friend of mine, I am sure some of you... Read More
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The Eye Malawi is a quarterly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Malawi, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is to all All advertisers, Bookshops, National & Regional Airlines, Tour operators, Blantyre & Lilongwe golf clubs & information offices. Foreign Diplomatic Missions and NGO’s. International Schools. Selected Restaurants and gift shops. All major hotels in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Cape MaClear, Monkey Bay, Nkata Bay & Mzuzu and the Malawi Tourism Board.
Articles in This Issue
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If I were to say that history is a study of facts, I would expect many of you to agree; but is it? I think not. It is a view of past people and events seen through a glass darkly. We are often reminded that the history of wars is written by the victors, and that certainly has truth in it, but perhaps we have now reached an age in which history is written by tabloid newspapers. Even our view of recent events is a hopeless blur made up of the emotional, the biased, the ill informed and even the downright prejudiced. Let me give you an example. Here are two currently held views of one person from just the recent past. • “Princess Diana was a beautiful woman who was greatly wronged by the British establishment and used her influence to the benefit of humanity in many spheres, making her one of the most revered and saintly people of modern times.”...................................................................................................More
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valued for its fine timber and fragrant smell, the Mulanje Cedar (Widdringtonia whytei) has been sought after since it was first discovered back in 1888 by the Scottish missionary Robert Cleland. As he climbed Mount Mulanje in southern Malawi, Cleland “discovered himself in another world…with here and there clumps of a tree unknown beyond the mountain”. This tree was to become the Mulanje Cedar named after Sir Alexander Whyte who made the first botanical description in 1893. Known locally as “chilumba mu mlengalenga” (Island in the Sky) Mount Mulanje is the second highest mountain in southern Africa rising to ............More |
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Pilates has been taking the world by storm since the 1980s. Many said it would be a fad, but it still has a loyal and growing following. Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. He was a sickly child and developed his own methodology of exercise and health to rehabilitate himself. Pilates was living in England during WW1 and as such he was interned on the Isle of Mann. During this period, he trained his fellow inmates and injured prisoners to develop their strength and stamina. When the flu epidemic of 1918 broke out, no one in his camp died. It was unheard of and thus Pilates’ methodology gained attention. ................More |
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