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If you’ve ever eaten gumbo, sang “kumbaya,” or sat on a front porch painted blue, you are living Gullah legacy and carrying on African traditions that survived the unlikeliest of conditions into the modern day.
Other spotlight films include Gia Coppola’s THE LAST SHOWGIRL, featuring a career defining performance by Pamela Anderson as a seasoned Las Vegas showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run; the inspirational true story UNSTOPPABLE, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Bobby Cannavale alongside Jharrel James (also in Moonlight), who stars as Anthony Robles, an athlete born with one leg who defies expectations to become a champion wrestler in college; and BETTER MAN, from director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
Their design followed many of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan’s principles of organic architecture, which held that buildings should reflect their surrounding environments, in the same way that a plant grows “naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.”
About 20 years ago, while anthropologist and independent scholar Edgar MartĂn del Campo lived with the Nahua and Otomi people of the rural region of Huasteca, including Chicontepec, he explored the complicated folklore of the teyollohcuani.
In 1935, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator André Prévot crashed in the Libyan desert while trying to break a record for fastest flight from Paris to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
The second Squonkapalooza took place August 10, 2024, and it proved equally popular, with hundreds of visitors perusing the vendor stands in Johnstown’s Central Park and watching lectures, podcast recordings, and movie screenings in the State Theater.
If you visit Yotsuya today, you may find another interesting thing in the area: There are two Inari shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, almost facing each other on the same street.
With its cheery yellow exterior and distinct sloping roofs, the Swedish Pavilion is architect Ferdinand Boberg’s only international exposition building still standing.
The isles are famed for their wide Atlantic vistas, sandy beaches routinely named among the best in the world, sea-to-summit mountains, mystical standing stones, Gaelic culture and machair – a rare grassland habitat only found on the exposed west-facing shores of Scotland and Ireland.
Modern witchcraft is often traced back to the mid-20th century, when a renewed interest in environmentalism, the founding of Wicca, the seeds of second-wave feminism, and a postwar world searching for spiritual guidance led people to beliefs outside mainstream or patriarchal “major” religions like Christianity.
Hidden in Guelph’s Royal City Park, Garbasaurus is a six-foot-tall sculpture made entirely from garbage, commemorating the Ontario Public Interest Research Group’s (OPIRG) Speed River Cleanup.
Tales of Madoc’s “Welsh Indians” had captured the imagination of jingoistic colonialists since Elizabethan times, because their purported existence meant that North America had been “claimed” for the English long before Columbus arrived in 1492.