Feb 22
Asian domestic servants helped change the way we eat, according to a researcher at the University of Western Australia who looks at history through food. Dr Cecilia Leong-Salobir’s new book, ‘Food Culture in Colonial Asia: a taste of empire,’ is a social history of how colonials ate in India, Malaysia and Singapore between 1858 and …
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Feb 20
When is an Englishman allowed to become passionate about Scotland? David Cameron took great trouble, during his visit to Edinburgh, to sound like a tactful husband, anxious to persuade his wife, Caledonia, that far from being a domineering brute who commands her to remain trapped in a loveless marriage, he is a humble supplicant who …
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Feb 14
A statement from the Raza Press and Media Association on the resent banning of number of important works by indigenous North American authors (both Chicano and Indian) by the white power government of Arizona. The RPMA is associated with the indigenous-Chicano revolutionary nationalist organization Unión del Barrio. Last week the Tucson Board of Education capitulated to the Superintendent of …
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Jan 26
the worst yet Jan 23rd 2012, 16:57 by G.P. | ABUJA NEARLY 180 people were killed on Friday in Nigeria’s second largest city, Kano, in attacks on eight government security buildings by Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect. Gun battles raged throughout the night between security forces and Boko Haram members, killing scores in the …
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Jan 23
South Carolina voters will look at the results in Iowa and new Hampshire before selecting a Republican presidential contender on Jan. 21, according to state Republican chairman Chad Connelly. Yet first-in-the-South’s primary voters will “give all of the candidates a true test of their ability to beat President Obama,” he said. The Palmetto State has …
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Jan 21
Not much is known about the origins of Boxing Day, though it helps to know that its origins stem from the observance of St. Stephen’s Day, traditionally a day when the well-to-do would go out of their way to provide care to the lowest of the lower classes. These days Boxing Day is mostly observed …
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Jan 19
Feehan, team manager Andy Irvine and chairman Gerald Davies made it clear at the fixtures announcement late last year that the time was fast approaching to decide who would take the reigns when Britain and Ireland’s elite head to Australia in 2013. and Feehan has now confirmed that the committee hope to have a head …
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Jan 19
We’ve finally had a dose of winter weather, and it’s already enough for me. There’ll be more to come, and cabin fever will soon set in. here are a few things coming up in Kentucky that might help shake off the winter chill and get us out of the cabin: If you’ve recovered from the …
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Jan 17
LAGOS (Reuters) – “Nigeria is not Animal Farm!” read one placard brandished during days of furious fuel price protests by Nigerians which have combined with a violent Islamist insurgency to move Africa’s top oil producer closer to what many fear may be a breaking point. The same political vices of corrupt leadership and abuse of …
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Jan 11
The Lumpenbourgeoisie (Kalusuddhas) of Sri Lanka and their despair at the recent turn of events in their motherland. Posted on January 9th, 2012 In the heyday of Marxism the pejorative term lumpenbourgeoisie was used for the upper-class and affluent natives who collaborated with the colonial overlord in the suppression of indigenous populations and in the …
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