- Rare Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World | Brain Pickings • by Maria Popova
- …fascinating archival images of music-making from around the world and across time, culled from several excellent Flickr sets compiled by musician Sam Bennett.
- Life of Pi: Croatian Illustrator Takes on a Modern Classic | Brain Pickings • by Maria Popova
- [The novel Life of Pi] tells the story of an Indian boy, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, stranded for 227 days after a shipwreck on a boat he shares with a Bengali tiger named Pi. It’s a story of faith, adventure, survival and belonging.
- … Torjanac used his distinctive blend of oil paints and digital illustration to produce 40 stunning illustrations with a conceptual twist — the scenes he portrayed were viewed from the subjective perspective of the tiger.
- 1806: Francisco de Miranda Invades Venezuela | About.com Latin American History
- People ask me sometimes when the struggle for Latin American Independence from Spain began. Personally, I think it began on August 1, 1806, the date that Venezuelan patriot Francisco de Miranda launched an ill-fated invasion of his homeland. Together with a handful of Venezuelan freedom fighters and mercenaries, Miranda landed near the town of Coro. …
- Kazakhstan – An Uighur Refuge No More? | About.com Asian History
- Traditionally, the republic of Kazakhstan has served as a refuge and a pressure valve for the neighboring region of Xinjiang (or East Turkestan), in western China. Many Kazakh people felt empathy for their Turkic Muslim cousins, the Uighurs, who suffer from discrimination and repression under Han Chinese rule. In addition, the breakdown of relations in the 1960s between Mao Zedong’s China and the Soviet Union gave people in the then-Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic another reason to tweak China by supporting the Uighurs. …
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