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Let’s talk about whether it was really a coup attempt….

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r/Damnthatsinteresting – Finding a 12 million year old crab inside a rock

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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