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Director of Manchester School of Samba at http://www.sambaman.org.uk

Round Midnight🌙💜 Thelonious Monk🩷

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Iguazu Falls, Brazil, after a heavy rain.

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Art in Town…

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How Portishead chopped Isaac Hayes

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The Nagaoka Fireworks Festival is one of Japan’s three great fireworks shows, held along the Shinano River in Nagaoka, Niigata.

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A Frankly Silly Beginner’s Guide To Shakespeare

18 Sept 2026 Watch the Ten Pound Traveller here: https://nebula.tv/jdraper/ten-pound-t… Get 50% off Nebula here: https://go.nebula.tv/jdraper — CORRECTION: The phrase “dead as a doornail” can be traced back much further than Shakespeare, to the 14th-century work “Piers Plowman”. […]

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Britain Just Ordered 29 Battery Trains – What Each One Costs and Why They Beat Overhead Wires

[…] Britain Just Ordered 29 Battery Trains – What Each One Costs and Why They Beat Overhead Wires Britain has ordered 29 Alstom battery-electric trains for TransPennine Express in a deal worth roughly ÂŁ1 billion (~$800M for the trains, ~$200M … Continue reading →

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Deadly daytime heat turns Japanese farmers nocturnal • FRANCE 24 English

21 Aug 2026 #Heatwave #Japan #Farming Japan’s farmers are opting for more nocturnal schedules as daytime summer heat makes working conditions dangerous. North of Tokyo, Motoaki Iijima harvests flowers in his illuminated greenhouse long after sunset. The farmer was pushed … Continue reading →

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Why Don’t We Eat Duck Eggs Everywhere If Ducks Lay Almost as Fast as Chickens

27 Aug 2026 A single Khaki Campbell duck can lay over 340 nutrient-dense eggs a year—easily outproducing the standard industrial chicken. Yet today, chickens supply more than 92% of the world’s 1.6 trillion eggs. The reason you don’t eat duck … Continue reading →

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A spectacle of puppetry: Buffalo parade through New York City

20 Sept 2026 This past week, a herd of 40 buffalo roamed the concrete canyons of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn – life-size puppets that are part of a public arts project by St. Ann’s Warehouse, a Brooklyn theater. Correspondent Anthony … Continue reading →

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