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12 Piccadilly, Manchester
Originally posted on Glass Onion:
Built 1911 in Portland stone by Percy Worthington for the Union Bank of Manchester. Sir Percy Scott Worthington ?
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Olinda: To Carnival Or Not to Carnival — Lisa Dorenfest
After 13 months of ‘full-on awesome’, sailing 11,853.7 nautical miles across two oceans, and visiting 11 countries along our way, we needed a break. We’d arrived in Brazil but the blog was still in South Africa, waiting patiently to share … Continue reading
Divine Love (2019) — Eternality Tan
Gabriel Mascaro continues his rise as one of Brazil’s most audacious filmmakers with this provocative and confident take on religion, sex and bureaucracy, set in the not-so-distant future. via Divine Love (2019) — Eternality Tan
Quilombos
The word “quilombo”, which has its roots in several West African languages, including what is now Congo and Angola, translates roughly as “encampment.” During pre-slavery times, it denoted settlements of runaway slaves in Brazil. Another term for the same type…
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Sisterhood of the Good Death
The Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Good Death) was born around 150 years ago in the quarters that housed the slaves of the sugarcane mills. It was formed exclusively by black women…
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Caingangue Baskets in São Paulo
Originally posted on Sidewalk City:
The Caingangue people are an indigenous Brazilian group whose ancestral lands span several south and central Brazil states, including the State of São Paulo. Today there are approximately 34,000 members of the Caingangue people. On…
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Artist Focus – Djavan
Originally posted on Violões De Alta Classe:
Djavan is a Samba & MPB ( Música popular brasileira )?musician originally from Maceió in north eastern Brazil. Moving to Rio in 1973, Djavan gained attention and recorded his first album?A Voz,…
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