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Originally posted on First Draft:
We liked poet Harry Jelley‘s piece at our Heathens’ Christmas Party this week so much that we persuaded him to let us publish it…   Silent nights are the most settling/          …

Originally posted on Trevor Burton:
Mr Thomas’s Chop House., corner of St Anne’s Alley (leading to St Anne’s Square) and Cross Street, Manchester, UK. Featured in the Detective Fiction Novel, Tangled Roots ?

Originally posted on Love Child of the World:
14 – 27 May Owing to the vast distances between states in Brazil, I was on the bus a good long time before I alighted in Campo Grande, capital of Mato Grosso…

Originally posted on Just Sayin':
In 2011, journalist Bruno Torturra covered a protest in São Paulo which turned ugly. His experience of being teargassed had a profound effect on the way he thought about his work, and he quit his…

Originally posted on A Progressive Rake:
My voice broke ridiculously early. I was about ten, and still in primary school, when gravity took a quick look at my thorax and certain related items, and decided she wanted a bit of…

Originally posted on Make a Difference :
? ? ? Students from Manchester Metropolitan University with the help of Unilever have created a sensory garden Royal Manchester Children Hospital featuring plants and herbs referenced in Shakespearean plays for patients at the…

Originally posted on The New World Lusophone Sousaphone:
Our beloved Avenue of the Owls is undergoing an accelerating rate of rezoning — a fancy supermarket  with a café that makes excellent pastéis and an office and retail property just around…

Originally posted on The World's Fare:
How far would you go to prove a point? For Ferdinand Magellan, the answer to that question was “all the way around the world,” and the point he was trying to prove is…

Originally posted on Later On:
http://youtu.be/KeskG-bFG9o More info here.

Originally posted on "Knee How" Shanghai:
Not only do you carry nail clippers to take care of your personal grooming needs when you are at your desk at work, on the metro, on a plane, walking down the…