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Artist Thierry Mandon Lives in Suspended Domestic Scenes Within the Ghost Rooms of Severed Buildings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021. GRACE EBERT “Tableau vivant” (2007-2008). All images © Thierry Mandon Multidisciplinary artist Thierry Mandon casts himself as the subject of his satirical works as he reads in a bed hazardously suspended feet above the ground or sips a … Continue reading
Librarian Saved Thousands of Historical Manuscripts From Being Destroyed | My Modern Met
By Madeleine Muzdakis on September 12, 2021 Manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Centre, Timbuktu, in 2013. (Photo: UNESCO via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) A librarian named Abdel Kader Haidara secretly saved hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from being … Continue reading
How Do We Name Generations?
[…] SOURCES AND FURTHER READING The Generations: https://www.careerplanner.com/Career-… Generation On Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/gener… Generation On Collin’s Dictionary: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic… A Comprehensive List Of Generation Names: https://www.thoughtco.com/names-of-ge… The Cons Of Each Generation: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-… Generation Nicknames: https://www.businessballs.com/glossar… Why Are American Soldiers Called GIs?: https://www.history.com/news/why-are-… … Continue reading
Britain’s Secret Nuclear Plans (and Bunker): What Happens if the UK Gets Nuked? – TLDR News
[…] Every country has them, but hopes to never need them; nuclear plans. So in this video we dive into what would happen if Britain was hit by a nuclear weapon, the response, the secret bunker and the secret documents. … Continue reading
Fishing on the Russia-China border | Primorsky Krai | How we perceive the Russian culture here
Hi guys! On my channel I told you a lot about my hometown, Spassk, located in Primorsky Krai in the very South-East of Russia. Well, now let’s explore the nearby area and visit the village of Novosel’skoye! There we will … Continue reading
‘I’ll be at front of queue to change my slave name’
By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Hague For more than three centuries the Dutch shipped more than half a million Africans across the Atlantic Descendants of African slaves have told the BBC they will change their surnames, after a Dutch … Continue reading
Manipulating plant genes…through grafting!
If you plant a seed from your orange, you might have to wait as long as 15 years to get a tree with fruit, which is kind of a bummer for the impatient types among us. Fortunately, there’s an age-old … Continue reading
How Caffeine Addiction Changed History (ft. Michael Pollan) | WIRED
90% of the world’s adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of “This Is Your Mind On Plants,” explains why. Michael goes into the history of coffee … Continue reading
What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
to dive into our collection of spores, molds, and fungus! Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4U… Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music … Continue reading
Surva: Chasing Off The Bad Spirits — Steemit | Bulgaria, World cultures, Character design
Jan 25, 2019 – Dating back from pagan times, Bulgarians have an ancient tradition called Surva. People wear scary costumes with brass… by rossenpavlov Source: Surva: Chasing Off The Bad Spirits — Steemit | Bulgaria, World cultures, Character design
