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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...family of Portugese-Indian ancestry in a suburb of Bombay. She arrived in Britain with her husband and son towards around 1960. Finding her new acquaintances eager to learn yoga, she quickly adopted the persona of Yogini Sunita and began teaching what she learned from yogi Narainswami on the beaches near Bombay, which she called Pranayama Yoga. Yogini Sunita training a...
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How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?
History & The Arts

How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?

...familial and spiritual as well as musical – her father was actively involved with Democratic party politics and the civil rights movement. Politicians and activists – along with many of the gospel superstars of the day – were a fixture in the family home. As a result, Franklin received formative musical mentoring from stars such as Dinah Washington and Mahalia...
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What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?

...families and communities. Those working closely with communities at ground level prefer to use the term FGC as a means of forging trusting respectful relationships, as it is argued that the women and girls concerned and their families may not always view themselves as having been ‘mutilated’. Some organisations/authors have thus merged both terms, creating the term...
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...family trees. America has had a great deal of immigration and when you track most family trees, there will be immigration records somewhere along the way. People arriving in America spoke all kinds of languages. Their names were recorded by people who didn't speak the newcomers' language and gave them various different spellings. This makes compiling a family tree quite a...
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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...family and other important people in their lives notice and appreciate these skills. However, children should not be so focused on goals that they feel their happiness depends directly on achieving them. For example, a child who enjoys playing football for the game is likely to be made happier by the experience than one who can only feel happy if the team achieves a win....
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Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...history of his times, and in a musical and verbal folk tradition that goes back for decades. Many Indians celebrated the Dylan's win on Twitter: Giddy and delirious with joy! Bob Dylan gets Nobel for Literature 2016. Swingin' Sixties and Crazy Seventies get... https://t.co/hjpCSxjmjz — কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত (@KanchanGupta) October 13, 2016 Nobel Laureate...
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The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...history and antiquities at Leipsic, in learned dissertations published in 1748 and 1751. The authority of this piece being contested, little stress is laid upon it: and the following account is gathered from the sacred writings, and those of the fathers. [ Saint Andrew, holding a scroll, looks intently to his left, indicating that the panel once may have formed part of a...
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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...history of Bathgate, the Plessey plant and, through incorporating oral history interviews I conducted in 2015 and 2016, analyse the roots of worker mobilisation. I then examine the dispute, and in particular Plessey’s legal response and the landmark victory achieved by the workers at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Background: Bathgate and Plessey The town of...
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