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philippine folklore: or the stuff filipino nightmares and fantasy are made of

Philippine folklore, as in other cultures, is predominantly about heaven and hell, good and evil. A duality that is present in most things. And similarly, it too has survived a long history of dominations and...

60 comments    culture sociology folklore
Yoshi was whimsical that morning, filled with the hope of finally cutting down that group of ronin that brutally murdered his family, and also with fluffy, warm pancakes.76

Head Smushing and Foot Binding: Some Thoughts on Body Modification

Yoshi was whimsical that morning, filled with the hope of finally cutting down that group of ronin that brutally murdered his family, and also with fluffy, warm pancakes. I was recently following a thread of...

1 comment    tattoos tattoo why
The War Canoe (public domain).92

Aboriginals in New Zealand

The Maori peoples of New Zealand consider themselves its First Nations. There is much duiscussion and much dispute over the question of whether they came from Egypt and the region to teh east or southeast, from Southeast Asia, from Melanesia, rrom Polynesia, from Hawaii, or from all of these sites.

24 comments    education history new zealand
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Global Warming Causes Human Migration

Climate change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries caused considerable human migration away from areas that became too hostile for living. National population figures remain in flux. Use the Global Brain World Clock inthis Hub to find how many species are extinct, world populations, barrels of oil pumped, and other vital information.

12 comments    adsense global warming hub pages
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Why is Fiber Important and How is it Beneficial to Your Health?

Dietary fiber seems to be an important part of human health. We can analyze ancestral diets to determine what our bodies were designed to digest, and use this to postulate what we should and should not be...

3 comments    health food diet
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Why Do Kids Kill Their Parents?

Murder in the family, although shocking and unsettling, is not uncommon. An analysis of publicly available national homicide data reveals that; when the relationships between victims and offenders were known,...

1 comment    kids psychology mother
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Benin Art Since 1897

In 1897 the British invaded Benin, upon entering Benin City they came across outstanding works of craftsmanship and art. These artefacts were taken back to Britain and sold to ‘museums, private...

0 comments    museums benin aesthetics objects
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GreyNYC

Grey This blog will be a document to everyday life in NYC. check in often because this page will be updated daily ...

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How to Build a Time Machine

First, the bad news. Not only I don’t know how to build a time machine for time travel, but no such machine exists. There is no way any of us can travel backwards or forward in time, despite the large...

5 comments    how to how history
Photographer: Jet Lowe, 1999.  U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service69

10 Women Who Are Famous Because Of Science, Part II

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974). An excellent physician who developed the Apgar score (appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration) to help assess neonates or newborn babies. The Apgar score helps...

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