Category Archives: General

WORLD ECONOMY IN 2015

Originally posted on Financial Keyhole:
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Brazil #3 in World Murder Rate

Originally posted on Tossing off the Bowlines:
Beach marauders assail beachgoers in Rio, early 2014. Holiday travelers were virtually taken hostage on their return from the Brazilian coastline this past weekend, as traffic slowed to a crawl and then stopped…

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Sao Paulo Street Art Again

Originally posted on Brasil Art:
Staying in Sao Paulo while everyone is away on holiday has its advantages – quieter, cleaner air, easier access. Even losing electricity has an up side. Often happens here in Zona Oeste – with January rain,…

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Food Trucks in Rio: I’ll tell you everything

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Humanist photos of life in China from a self-taught street photographer

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Missing In Action (Overnight )

Originally posted on City Jackdaw:
Okay, this is my last D-Day themed post, I promise. It’s just that I’m not sure how many people outside of the UK have heard this story. Police were called by a Sussex care home…

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“Nope” intensifies, diversifies grammatically

Originally posted on Sentence first:
Remember the transformation of fail and win 5–6 years ago? Fleeting online slang phrases like bucket of fail and made of win may sound dated now, but terms like epic fail/win and FTW (“for the…

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21st-24th January – Manchester CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival 2015 (Manchester, Lancashire) Preview

Originally posted on The Cider Blog:
Address: The National Cycling Centre, Stuart Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M11 4DQ (Website) Entry Price/Session times: Wed 21st January: 4pm-10:30pm (£3*) Thu 22nd January: 12pm-10:30pm (£3*) Fri 23rd January: 12pm-10:30pm (£3* before 5pm/£6* after 5pm)…

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Self-Sustaining Town Grows Vegetables in Most Unlikely Places

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AROMAPOETRY – a book to be read with the nose

Originally posted on In-Imitable Fragrance Passion:
Eduardo Kac is a Brazilian artist that has always been ahead of his time. In his latest project called “Aromapoetry” he anticipated a new linguistic system. By experimenting with chemical reactions he imagined “the first…

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