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Novey wins Jewish Book Council’s Sami Rohr Prize for debut novel, WAYS TO DISAPPEAR

Originally posted on READ HER LIKE AN OPEN BOOK:
Poet and translator-turned-novelist Idra Novey has been awarded the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize by the Jewish Book Council for her debut novel, Ways to Disappear. The prize comes with a $100,000…

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đŸŽ¶When the samba takes you…đŸŽ¶

Originally posted on Meg Sorick, Author/Artist:
Week 37 in the Year of Drinking Adventurously. Cachaca. Back to the adventure! I succeeded in finding this week’s spirit (although not any one of the brands recommended in our guide) and sampling…

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U is for Udon (Noodles that is)

Originally posted on Cooking is Fun … Really!!:
Noodles are ubiquitous in many cuisines and udon, a soft, thick and chewy wheat noodle, is one of the many Asian forms I hadn’t tried until I found them fresh at my local,…

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Brazilian Rebel Beer For Change

Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
Here we have a novel form of protest against a corrupt and immoral Brazilian government. The people have created a beer to highlight the political imposition that is US Establishment installed puppet, Temer. I’ll have…

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Cinco de Mayo flamingos ~

Originally posted on Maverick Mist:
“Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the soldier who wrote an eyewitness account of Hernan Cortes’ campaign to conquer Mexico in 1519-1521, reported seeing flamingos in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan where they were kept in an aviary…

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Little Bums in Beijing 

Originally posted on autumnaldous:
The Chinese in Beijing find Westeners fascinating, when you travel there expect to have your photo taken over and over again. Sometimes they will ask for your permission and sometimes they will aim their phone /camera…

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Paintings You Should Know: ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper (1942)

Originally posted on The Culture Project:
The hour is late. The streets are deserted. In a downtown diner two men and a woman pass the time over coffee. No-one speaks. No-one makes eye contact. Even the pair seated close enough to touch…

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“Names Have Power”: Five Essays on Names and Identity

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Fresh evidence of the power of fig trees to sustain wildlife and restore lost forests

Originally posted on Under The Banyan:
“Who eats figs? Everybody,” wrote tropical biological Daniel Janzen in 1979. He meant that in tropical rainforests most, if not all, fruit-eating animals will consume figs — the false-fruit of the 750+ Ficus species…

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Street art…

Originally posted on Rethinking Life:
Pinterest Street Art by Art-Takano Mexico twitter.com

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