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73Australia - Aboriginal Dreaming - Ancient spirits in the 21st century
To an outsider, "The Dreamtime" is fundamental to the concept of traditional Australian Aboriginal religion. Aboriginal religion, in fact, is not a labeled belief system, but rather life itself. Life past, present and future creates "The Dreaming".
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79Funny, Weird and Wacky "kingdoms" in Australia
So you thought a huge bench in the middle of Australia's outback was pretty weird. But wait! There's more! Some unique (a generic term including those verging on "beyond crazy") individuals in Australia live in (and rule) their own "unsung"? worlds - many legally and literally.
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71Oddities of Nature: Our future - Amphibians are more precious than gold
Locked in the world of amphibians may be the key to our future existence, our very survival. The humble frog, the salamander and caecilians may "sense" the state of our world far more effectively than humanity's most advanced technical sensors.
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84Jane Goodall could be humanity's guardian angel
Jane Goodall is primarily known for her 30 years of work with chimpanzees in Tanzania. She was nominated by paleontologist and archaeologist Dr Louis Leakey of Nairobi Kenya. She was just one of Leakey's Angels, keen to heighten the world's of our natural treasures.
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74The Power of an Introvert
The introvert has a quiet, inner strength. An introvert survives in an extrovert's world by staying "inside". The shy, quiet, dreamy introvert avoids the extrovert's world of parties, bars and clubs, drama...
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71Oddities: Weird bra stories (with a dash of poetry)
2000 bras strung along a barbed wire fence! Pink bras in a pepper tree! Bra art metamorphoses into gallery art! The ultimate - a Bra Ball! And are bras poetry in motion?
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70Australian Desert Art - 1 - "Stone Souls and a Big Bench" - Broken Hill, NSW (with a dash of poetry)
In 1993, a group of sculptors pooled their skills to create art in the desert. The place was outback NSW, Australia at Broken Hill.The artists involved in the 1993 Sculpture Symposium were: 2 from Mexico, 2 from Syria, 3 from Georgia and 5 Australians.
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78Is madness healthy? Is a genius really mad?
History and literature are riddled with examples of madness. From leaders to the "little people", from writers to personas in their writing, there are those who dare to be "madly" different. But is brilliance a form of madness?
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66Australian Poetry - Suburbia - Video Reflections on Bruce Dawe - 1 - "homo suburbiensis"
Suburbia! A gift or a curse? In 2006, Australian Bruce Dawe released "Sometimes Gladness", a collection of poems connecting universal, ordinary man with the poetry of the soul. I felt moved to create a video of his poem, interpretting the images and the illusions.
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72Australia - Overview of Australia + Australians - A glimpse, a taste, a little music with the wine and the first memory
Once, Australia was a little like a lost child, pushed into the traffic of distant lands and the whims of waters and sea breezes. But Australia now is building a memory. Here is the first wave of that memory, a little foamy, a little salty, but still a wave coming in to shore.
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