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Roots of Capoeira Crowd Funding Appeal

Help them out here Angolan Roots of Capoeira

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Monday in Albert Square, Manchester.

I had a chance to play with some long standing friends who i haven’t seen for a while this week. So we all duly arrived and waited for something to happen that involved us… Whilst they prepared the Square for … Continue reading

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552 – When Macbeth Met Hamlet: a Scandinavian Scotland? | Strange Maps | Big Think

Frank Jacobs on February 7, 2012, 6:50 PM To be or not to be Scandinavian, that might be the question soon enough for Scotland, if it decides to become independent. For the time being, Scotland is still a part of … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Getting It Right~ Living Life:
[Black Orpheus (Orfeu Négre) (1958) Directed by Marcel Camus. Bruno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lea Garcia] It seems as though all of my favorite films especially favorite foreign films come from Brazil. If you…

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Orelhão, the giant public phone in its final days

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First African American Online Encyclopedia

                                Hi, I have created the first African American online Encylopedia, and I would love for all of you to reference them at your own…

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The Tunnels of Cu Chi (Militarized Architectures)

Originally posted on WANDERLUST:
The Tunnels of Cu Chi is a book written by Tom Mangold & John Penycate in 1985 focusing on a specific aspect of the Vietnam war which lead the U.S. Army to loose it. The technological…

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