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Illustrated Timeline Presents Women’s Fashion Every Year from 1784-1970 | My Modern Met
By Kelly Richman-Abdou on July 31, 2017 Meticulously compiled using a number of historic fashion plates, this timeline showcases women’s fashion history from 1794-1970. As a versatile art form, fashion illustration is intended to showcase the material, colors, and design of … Continue reading
Glass Armonica (spinning glass bowls… that break)
Get those fingers pruney and definitely don’t press too hard. Dennis James: https://www.facebook.com/dennis.james… Fascinating instruments playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj… My beginner guitar course – GuitarQuest! https://www.guitareo.com/guitar-quest Commentary, early access to videos and other DVD extras on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/RobScallon Audio recorded & mixed … Continue reading
Original caretakers: Indigenous groups team up with conservationists to protect swaths of US | Guardian
Hallie Golden in Seattle Mon 3 Jan 2022 11.00 GMT North Cascade mountains in Washington state. Photograph: Gregg Brekke/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock Environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world, and a key part of … Continue reading
Amanda Gorman on her rise to fame: “It felt like I was kind of shot out of a cannon”
Bestselling author and poet Amanda Gorman is releasing her third book of the year, “Call Us What We Carry.” In an exclusive interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King, Gorman reveals what the past year has truly been like for … Continue reading
The Chimney Swift (Der Schornsteinsegler)
Animated Documentary, directed by Frédéric Schuld Qualified for the Oscars 2022 The famous New Year’s good luck symbol of a little chimney sweeper is turned upside down: In “The Chimney Swift” a real British sweeper master describes his everyday routine … Continue reading
About the Sámi languages
[…] Today we’re exploring the language of the Sámi people. More precisely, the languages, as there is more than one Sámi language. Sámi is spoken in an extreme landscape of Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola peninsula in Russia. … Continue reading
Stephenie Bergman – Creative Folkestone Triennial
Stephenie Bergman is recognised internationally for her ceramic sculptures whose forms are grounded in everyday functionality. For the Triennial, she is contributing sculptures that play on the forms we associate with medicine – can you find them? Stephenie Bergman is … Continue reading
What on Earth Happened to the Siberians
What happened to the natives of Siberia? Arguably, the world’s most inhospitable, dangerous and desolate region of human habitation. This is what it looks like when an entire region is demographically transformed in only a matter of generations. Today we … Continue reading
Discovering Native American Ancestry through DNA
The purpose of this class is to review the scientific and anthropological evidence regarding Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the genetic markers that have been associated with their ancestry. Through Y chromosome, mitochondrial DNA, and autosomal DNA testing, individuals … Continue reading
Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai 🐯 Tigers, Emerald Valley and history of the Jurchen people
Ussuriysk is a city located in the far East or Russia, in the region Primorsky Krai. Population: 160,000 people. The city is founded in 1866 but long before the arrival of the Russians, people lived in these territories. Today we … Continue reading
An old man’s diary of the Ukraine war around him
Seventy-seven-year-old Alexander Cherkas writes out by hand a line-by-line record of shelling attacks and casualties – which buildings were hit, who was killed – he has been keeping a diary of the more than seven years of on-off conflict in … Continue reading
