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How well do you know Palestine?Drop a pin where you think each Palestinian city is located and see how close you get.
After each guess, you'll receive a score out of 10 based on your accuracy, along with information about the city’s history, culture and the impact of the 1948 Nakba.Can you get a perfect score of 100?What happened in Palestine in 1948?
Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May 14, 1948, as soon as the
expired, Zionist forces declared the establishment of the State of Israel, triggering the first
Zionist military forces expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands and captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.Windram pointed out that publicity materials for the research show images of the Oz experiment on a highly stabilised table.
“This would require a lot of work to miniaturise the technology, and is likely a long way off. Given that the laser must stably hit the correct cones in order to stimulate them, this may not really be feasible as a form of vision correction technologically,” he said.How do we know how people ‘see’ colour?
The concept of a colour has three main components, Windram explained: The physical, which has to do with the wavelengths of light that meet the eye; the neurological, which refers to how humans biologically process these light signals; and the societal or linguistic component, which pertains to how colours are named.“In the end I may see a colour and call it ‘red’, someone else may call it ‘rot’ or ‘rouge’ … but also another may look at it a bit more closely and say ‘well it’s claret’ or ‘crimson’.”