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Brazil’s President-Elect Reinstates Its Culture Ministry and Appoints a Bahian Singer to Lead the Department | Artnet News

Jo Lawson-Tancred, December 13, 2022 Singer Margareth Menezes at a press conference at Sauipe Park in 2013 in Bahia, Brazil. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein, FIFA/FIFA via Getty) Images. Brazil’s president-elect Lula is reviving the position of culture minister and has … Continue reading

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Georgian Culture and Ukrainian Pride Highlight the 2022 Tbilisi Mural Fest | Colossal

DECEMBER 6, 2022. GRACE EBERT By Sasha Korban. All images by Tiku Kobiashvili, courtesy of Tbilisi Mural Fest For its fourth year, Tbilisi Mural Fest facilitated new murals around the Georgian city that celebrate local culture.   For the last … Continue reading

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A New Book Repaints the Legacy of Street Art by Spotlighting Women Leading the Genre | Colossal

DECEMBER 1, 2022 KATE MOTHES Medianeras, “The Crystal Ship” (2021) in Ostend, Belgium. All images courtesy of the artists and Prestel Women Street Artists spotlights the diverse practices of 24 graffiti and mural artists hailing from around the globe. For … Continue reading

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The Greatest Science Experiment That Never Happened | Answers With Joe

[…] The Superconducting Supercollider was set to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, by a long shot. In fact, it would still to this day be the biggest and most powerful. But history had other plans. This is … Continue reading

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Ancient Egypt: Hieroglyphs and writing systems | National Museums Liverpool

Join our Egyptologist, Ashley Cooke, as he takes us on a 5,000-year journey uncovering the many mysteries and hidden stories that lie within the Ancient Egypt gallery at World Museum! In this episode of our mini series we take a … Continue reading

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Designed for Leisure, Sarah Ross’ ‘Archisuits’ Question the Inhospitable Environments of American Cities | Colossal

NOVEMBER 2, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Sarah Ross In 2005, artist Sarah Ross designed four absurdly bulging leisure suits to illuminate how public infrastructure is not built for bodies. Among American cities, Los Angeles has a reputation for … Continue reading

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About the Tamil language

Today we’re traveling to the lands of ancient kingdoms and civilizations of Southern India, to the lands where they speak languages old as time itself. Tamil is an official language and one of the 6 classical languages of India. It … Continue reading

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How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara

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50 Fun And Interesting Geography Facts

In this video we’ve got 50 interesting, fun and utterly bizarre geography related facts. If you are watching this video then chances are you are interested in geography and therefore you may already know a lot of these facts but … Continue reading

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