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YouTube - Russia&URSS arte, letteratura, teatro 1905-1940

petersigrist — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:56:25 GMT

Quoted: Russia&URSS arte, letteratura, teatro 1905-1940Curata da Giuseppe Marcenaro e Piero Boragina, questa mostra, l'evento espositivo più importante dell'autu...

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YouTube - Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Mr Bob Dobalina

petersigrist — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:15:11 GMT

Quoted: See Music Videos http://www.bvmtv.com/ that you CAN'T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. Del tha Funkee Homos...

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Unlikely Word Origins Defined In 'Anonyponymous' : NPR

petersigrist — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:47:22 GMT

Quoted: Did you know that the word "Frisbee" is derived from Mary Frisbie, a woman who made pies in Connecticut? Or that "silhouette" originated with Etienne de Silhouette, an 18th century French finance minister? John Marciano shines light on these and many other etymological mysteries in Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words.

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Book Review - 'Look at the Birdie - Unpublished Short Fiction,' by Kurt Vonnegut - Review - NYTimes.com

petersigrist — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30:58 GMT

Quoted: In a 2003 interview, when asked the softball question “How are you?” he answered: “I’m mad about being old, and I’m mad about being American. Apart from that, O.K.”

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polis: Tracing the Paths of Revolution

petersigrist — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:08:15 GMT

Quoted: This is a brief visual exploration of urban development in Moscow leading up to the October Revolution, focusing on aspects that may have influenced current public parks.

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Food rules

petersigrist — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:05:28 GMT

Quoted: Similarly, ancient Greek systems of thought, including the idea that human health depended on balancing warm, cold, moist, and dry humours, naturally led to Galen’s nutritional advice to restrict consumption of excessively dry foods in order to avoid “black bile.” How, then, do our contemporary medical beliefs and socio-cultural norms combine to exclude some nutritional possibilities, and reinforce others

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Remembering Afghanistan’s Golden Age - NYTimes.com

petersigrist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:25:27 GMT

Quoted: From the 1930s to the 1970s

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Acting up | New Humanist

petersigrist — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:57:19 GMT

Quoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.

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Showcase: David Burnett’s 44 Days in Iran - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com

petersigrist — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:50:15 GMT

Quoted: A photographer who has made the most of inside access to document revolutionary change discusses what it is like to see history unfold, from the outside.

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YouTube - Russia&URSS arte, letteratura, teatro 1905-1940

YouTube - Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Mr Bob Dobalina

Unlikely Word Origins Defined In 'Anonyponymous' : NPR

Book Review - 'Look at the Birdie - Unpublished Short Fiction,' by Kurt Vonnegut - Review - NYTimes.com

polis: Tracing the Paths of Revolution

Food rules

Remembering Afghanistan’s Golden Age - NYTimes.com

Acting up | New Humanist

Showcase: David Burnett’s 44 Days in Iran - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com

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