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The Burning
Originally posted on Green Piazza:
The Falles ends in fireworks emerging from blazing flames. Heat devours hours of artisan work leaving traces of digital pictures, cherished moments and treasured stories. Crowds press together in warmth enjoying the spectacle. As ashes…
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Expanding Manchester Piccadilly Station
This announcement on the Government web site is entitled Put HS3 at the heart of a High Speed North – Adonis. This is an extract. Recommendation six: Proposals for the redevelopment of Manche… Source: Expanding Manchester Piccadilly Station
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Brazil’s Indigenous Kaxinawá Community Designs a Kick-Ass Video Game
Originally posted on Dark Matters :
LINK:Huni Kuin: os Caminhos da Jiboia (The Way of the Snake)
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“Germans” and “Italians” in the highlands of Brazil’s far south
Originally posted on The World Elsewhere:
Grape vines covering hills near Bento Gonçalves. Just over 100 kilometres north of the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre lies the old colonial zone of Rio Grande do Sul, the country’s southern-most state. At the start…
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Protest against president again features nearly all-white upper-middle class displays of racism, desire to protect status and putting ‘have nots’ back in their place
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There Ain’t ‘Alf Some Clever Bastards – Part Fifty One
Originally posted on windowthroughtime:
Elias Howe Jr (1819 – 1867) It is a device which is used everywhere many times a day around the world and is still one of the most effective means of getting a complete join between…
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Listen online: Pictures for Schools All FM Friday Drivetime interview
Originally posted on Pictures for Schools:
I was invited to talk about my Pictures for Schools research and upcoming talk for the Manchester Centre for Regional History at Manchester Metropolitan University on Fiona Ledgard’s Friday Drivetime show on south Manchester…
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