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72Let's abolish income tax?
Income tax was first charged in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in December 1798 to pay for weapons and equipment for the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt's new 'concept' of income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence...
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71Rajasthani Songs
Rajasthan always had a culture of music and dance. It is a place where one is totally submerged by the spell binding music. The folk music of Rajasthan is popular not only in the state but all over India. ...
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79Guitar in DADGAD tuning
DADGAD is a tuning developed by Davy Graham in the early 1960s. To change your guitar from normal tuning EADGBE just do the following: Tune strings 1, 6 down from E to D. You can use string 4 (D) as a...
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67Indonesian Folk Tale : Talaga Warna (The Lake Of Colors)
Once upon a time there was a kingdom in West Java. There used to live a wise and kind king named His Majesty Prabu and his wife, the queen. The kingdom was very prosperous under his rule. Everything went...
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76Korean Games
Korea holds fast to several traditional games that are different than anything we have in America. The game of Yut Nori is an outdoor board game with a huge where four halved, round sticks are thrown up...
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75Cherokee Beliefs Creation of Earth
The earth was a great island floating in a sea of water, suspended by a cord at each of the four cardinal points, hanging down from the sky vault, which is solid rock. When the world grows old and worn out,...
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76Old Generation vs. New Generation Which Are We?
As I sit and write this hub, I think back when my girls were little and we use to take my parents shopping. My dad would go in the store and start grumbling "Why do they have to keep changing things around? I...
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86Grace Slick: First Lady of Acid Rock
Grace Slick was one of the forerunners of San Francisco's acid rock sound, which became nationally famous during the so-called Summer of Love in 1967. Thereafter, Grace would become the quintessential rock...
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83Hikaru Dorodango - Making Japanese Polished Dirt Balls
Learn about the art of polished dirt balls, also known as hikaru dordodango. Subtle and cerebral meets getting-your-hands-dirty fun!
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76Spoonerisms: Tongue-tied Tales and Fables
What's a spoonerism, you might ask? If you were to rephrase that question, "sput's a woonerism," then it would be obvious you're already familiar with these phonetic manglings nicknamed after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who had a knack for turning the English language on its ear.
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