Category Archives: General

Sambas: cantando e contando (signing and counting)

Originally posted on Sobre o Samba:
Since samba originated under the influence of a number of musical styles and rhythms, it is natural to assume there is a variety of samba types. And in fact, there are different styles of…

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Stay humble

Originally posted on This Is Irma:
Disclaimer: To any new readers, I’m not a writer. Just an FYI. At the beginning of this year, I created a new motto for myself: Stay hungry, stay humble and keep learning. After spending…

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Samba de Gafieira – samba from gafieiras

Originally posted on Sobre o Samba:
Arcos da Lapa I had a great start of this year – on an early morning of January 1st I landed in the Rio de Janeiro International Airport Galeao. All the time that I…

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Culture and fashion: Carnival couture

Originally posted on Jour à Nuit:
This past weekend Emily, Meredith, and I took an accidental trip to Geneva, Switzerland. We took a day trip to Annecy, a quaint, medieval town in south-eastern France with a beautiful back drop of the…

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Council Cuts: Why are the poorest areas facing biggest cuts?

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“DevoManc” explained to a space visitor

Originally posted on mancunianspring:
Picture the scene. You open your Sunday newspaper to discover that a cabal of Westminster MP’s have decided that from now on the UK will be run on a Presidential system, that an interim President chosen…

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Manchester: Four Seasons, Three Types of Rain, One Day

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Ndume: The Story of an Elephant

Originally posted on Mark Deeble:
? It reads like environmental pulp fiction: A tribal family’s ancestral forest home is surrounded and cutoff from the main forest by illegal loggers and slash-and-burn farmers. When they eventually break out to try to…

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Valencia en Fallas!

Originally posted on Walk to Click:
Buenos días! Valencia, 1 de Marzo! Como me gusta esta fecha! Eso significa que las Fallas ya están aquí!!! Qué ganas tengo de mascletás, ganas de ver los monumentos en las calles y los…

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PANTONIO…ROME…2/15…

Originally posted on sanpiano:
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