Category Archives: History

We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures

Our discrete cultural universes are not easily bridged.Inca Princess – La Gran Ñusta Mama Occollo (early 1800s) / Denver Art Museum If they’re honest and humble enough, people who study societies that existed in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans … Continue reading →

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Top 10 African Tribes Taken In The Atlantic Slave Trade

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15,000-Year-Old Words We Still Use

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Suffragette City: The fight for equality through the eyes of Suffragettes-Museum Crush

In today’s society, both men and women are part of the democratic process. The act of voting is so ingrained into our culture that many simply do not bother to vote at all. Hundreds of years ago, equality was a … Continue reading →

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Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years ago – ScienceBlog.com

Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonised America, archaeologists have … Read more Source: Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years … Continue reading →

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Best Prince Quotes: ‘No One Can Dictate Who You Are’ — CBS MiamiCBS Miami

Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MINNESOTA (WCCO) — After learning of the sad news that recording artist Prince has passed away at the age of 57, many can take solace in the fact that his music and his words will … Continue reading →

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People of Nowhere

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/144857118 International Migrants Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Migrants_Day

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Roots of Capoeira Crowd Funding Appeal

Help them out here Angolan Roots of Capoeira

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Saving Ancoats Hospital

Saving ancoats hospital from Tom Turner on Vimeo.

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Time Team: the only true ‘reality’ show

Originally posted on Francis Pryor – In the Long Run:
Let’s start with a simple question: what is reality? Being an archaeologist, I like old things; so I turned to my copy of that first dictionary of the English language,…

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