Category Archives: Culture

Google | Business As Usual

“Business As Usual” is about creating your own sense of movement, taking ownership of what you can influence, and being the author of your own story. A sense of peace and happiness when things seem to be burning around you. … Continue reading

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16 Things I Only Started Saying After Living in the UK 🇬🇧

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Transylvania: Between tradition and modernity | DW Documentary

For 500 years, Transylvania’s Gábor people have held onto their values and rituals. This film explores the insular world of the Gábor Roma, and asks whether they can maintain their traditional lives in a globalized world. The Romanian village of … Continue reading

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5 Brits Take A DNA Test

We took a DNA test to find out our ancestry. Many of us have an idea of where we came from, but we wanted to see how much we really know about our family history. 23andMe’s DNA testing kit gives … Continue reading

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Stories In Place

Seven Black filmmakers capture perspectives from behind the counters of their favorite neighborhood spots. Watch the entire series at vimeo.com/storiesinplace In the shadow of a global pandemic, economic collapse, and ongoing racial injustice, these films show the spectrum of experiences … Continue reading

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‘Good on her’: how Jackie Weaver became an internet star | Guardian

Handforth residents, a comedian and young political activists helped explosive parish council meeting go viral t was the distraction the nation didn’t know it needed: a poor-quality recording of an online meeting of a Cheshire parish council, called by two … Continue reading

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Toasts Around the World | 100,000 Subscribers | Thank You!

Thank you all so much for your curiosity and willingness to share your stories with me!

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Boiúna | A Book of Creatures

Variations: Anaconda, Boi-úna, Cobra Grande, Cobra-grande, Eunectes murinus, Mae-d’agua, Mae-do-rio, Mboia-açu (“Large Snake”), Mboiúna; Mru-kra-o (Kayapo); Vai-bogo (Desana) Boiúna or Cobra Grande is one of the most widespread and polymorphic myths of the Amazon basin. The name is applied to concepts … Continue reading

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Yan, Tyan, Tethera and other sheep related historical facts…and a cross stitch sampler

Traditionally shepherds counted their sheep in scores – or lots of twenty – twice a day, morning and evening, just to check that they hadn’t lost any in the night.    When the shepherd got to twenty he or she would place … Continue reading

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Sheep in British Folklore & Superstition

Welcome to my channel! Here you’ll find folklore from across the British Isles. In this video I look into the folklore of sheep and shepherds from across Britain. I start by looking at the origins of some of their oldest … Continue reading

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