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The King of Biscotti: Almond Biscotti “Cantucci”

There are many articles written about the health benefits of almonds. Low in saturated fat and containing calcium and magnesium, vitamin E and compounds called phytochemicals, which may help protect against...

BRITTANY'S BRIGHT FUTURE (PART 1 – A SHORT HISTORY OF BRITTANY)

On 19th May, all the Bretons in the world will celebrate "Gouel Erwan" (or St-Yew's day, i.e. Britanny's Day!), the equivalent to the Irish St Patrick's Day! Time to look back at what Brittany was in the...

Holi, Holiday, Festival of Colors has bit of Mischief Night to it

Looking at the rainbow of colors covering people faces in the slides from India celebrates colorful beginning of spring (The Independent, March 10), made Holi, the Festival of Colors, sound like good- natured...

Flashback: "It's the Most Wonderful Time ....

.... of the year!” Before Staples appropriated part of that song for its back to school sales campaign, featuring parents gleefully gliding through the aisles shopping, with children glumly dragging their...

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Saturnalia, Everywhere I Go

From Dec. 17-23 in ancient Rome, holiday greetings rang out on the streets. Lit candles hung from trees, and the halls were decked with greenery. Everyone exchanged small gifts. Old enemies greeted each other...

160 Million Nelson Mandelas

" Newsweek called Pakistan “the most dangerous nation in the world.” Western media calls Pakistan “a power-keg waiting to explode,” while their military describes us as “being in a fight for our national existence.” The world that we all claw and...

A Paradise on Earth - Home of the Kalash

The Kalash people living in the northwestern part of Pakistan, living in three remote valleys of the Hindu Kush mountain range, are called the 'Greeks of Asia'. The highlighted materials are excerpts printed from...

A Pakistani Designer's Pret a Porter Line

Amir Adnan is a well-known Pakistani designer whose clients are ordinary people as well as celebrities and high level statesmen. The list of the former type includes Pakistan’s ex President...

The United States is 232 years old today

America is officially 232 years old today, and she's looking good for her age.Americans across the country are celebrating today with fireworks, concerts, parades and contests and this a round up of the various...

Social Entrepreneurship: Tobias Sturmer, Artistic Director for Empowerment Works

"As part of our commitment to highlight social entrepreneurship in Africa, the Cheetah Index brings you this interview with Tobias Sturmer-Artistic Director of Empowerment Works Music.Before going into the interview here is an excerpt from Empowerment Works that describes...

Women Who Are Journalists in Yemen Persist in the Face of Discrimination

" For Yemeni women violence and spinsterhood can often result from pursuing a career, especially in the field of journalism, so only a few venture into the media industry."The most common reason why the majority...

Japan Finally Recognizes Ainu as Indigenous Peoples

The recognition for Japan's  Ainu minority is more than a little bit late in coming. One of the things that I find amazing--how much the Ainu's culture represents that of many Northwestern American Indian...

From Coil to Rabbit, Incense in all shapes and flavors (via PingMag)

Tracing the origins of incense in Japan, Ryoko (PingMag) writes that "it is believed that it was introduced to Japan in the 6th century,along with Buddhism. At that time, incense consisted simply of smallchips from an aromatic tree called “koboku (fragrant wood)”, or...

May 1st, Jumping off the Bridge in Oxford, Muguet in Paris, Long Week-End in ...

In many places around the world, May 1st, May Day is a holiday.First it is Labour Day, second as the French Embassy reminds us for the Catholic church it marks the beginning of the month of the Virgin.The French tradition is to offer Muguet (lily of the valley) to loved ones...

Indigenous Solutions: The Free Market, Free Trade and Free Enterprise Traditions

" George B.N. Ayittey The Free Market, Free Trade and Free Enterprise Traditions Africa's indigenous economic system is probably the area least understood. The myth...

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