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La Mercè 2018: Activities for whole family
Originally posted on Barcelona with Family:
September in Barcelona means La Mercè festival and you don’t want to miss it! Indeed, this festival celebrate one of the patron of the city, Virgin of Grace, and happens every year since the…
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Akira Kurosawa and Gabriel García Márquez: The Conversation
Originally posted on Vox Populi:
In October 1990, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez visited Tokyo during the shooting of Akira Kurosawa’s penultimate feature, Rhapsody in August. García Márquez, who spent some years in Bogota as a film critic before penning…
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Acarajé: impossible to be more “baiano”.
Originally posted on World Cuisine:
Bahia is a State of many contrasts and one of the main differences with the rest of the country is its unique cuisine with strong African influence. Virtually all the typical foods of the region…
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: Morgan Gruer Mixes Animation With Live Action — Filmotomy
The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize — WINNER — Morgan Gruer – “for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent to live action work including music videos”#FemmeFilmFest #directedbywomen pic.twitter.com/XkQO5QgJcU — Robin Write (@Filmotomy) September 16, … Continue reading
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Originally posted on A Stamp A Day:
Great Britain – Scott #904 (1980) The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened on September 15, 1830, connecting the major industrial city of Manchester with the nearest deep water port at the Port of Liverpool,…
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Dr Warwick Kerr, the “Man Who Created Killer Bees”, has died
Originally posted on Bad Beekeeping Blog:
It is with regret that we report that the humanitarian, geneticist, and scientist, Professor Warwick Kerr, passed away this morning, September 15, 2018. He was six days past his 96th birthday. Dr Kerr, a…
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The political spectrum of Brazil: how the 2018 elections have revealed a country divided between two extremes
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Why we laugh
Did you know that you’re 30 times more likely to laugh if you’re with somebody else than if you’re alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and, yes, hilarious dash … Continue reading
Whispering Rooms + Ellipsoid Ceilings
Originally posted on The Girl With an Erdos Number of ∞:
Apollonius of Perga (262-190 BC), “The Great Geometer” was a younger contemporary of Archimedes. His most notable works were published in his eight books, the “Conics”. Pythagoras — Socrates—Plato—Aristotle —–Euclid—Archimedes—Apollonius 500 BC…
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