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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...Heritage of Humanity. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the lunar calendar and ends on the 15th of the lunar calendar. The 15th is known as the Lantern Festival in the West but 圆宵节 yuán xiāo jié (sweet dumpling festival) in Chinese-speaking cultures, when people eat sweet dumplings to mark the end of the Chun Jie celebration....
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The Extraordinary Rosa Parks
History & The Arts

The Extraordinary Rosa Parks

...heritage and way of life It became clear that this was going to be a question that needed a legal solution, and so the protestors took their case to court: On June 5, the special panel ruled two to one in favor of the black plaintiffs. Rives’ majority opinion in which Johnson concurred held that the 1954 Brown ruling, which had overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson...
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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...heritage. The National Trust now has in its care over 775 miles of British coastline including iconic landscapes such as the white chalk cliffs of Sussex at Beachy Head, heathlands at Lizard Point, the southernmost part of England, the spectacular cliffs of Pembrokeshire in Wales and the coastal marshes of North Norfolk. In 2014 it launched the Sounding Our Shores...
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Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?

...world's media, Arab and refugee lives matter less than those of Europeans - and that contributes to a punishing cycle for us all...Events of this past weekend shook the core of the world as ISIS struck not just in Beirut, but Paris as well. These attacks follow an equally brutal show of terror in January 2015 when Charlie Hebdo’s offices were targeted because of...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...World Happiness Report found Finland as the worlds happiest country which proves income does not necessarily lead to happiness says Professor Paul Anand...[Happy baby ] Happiness is contagious Finland reclaimed its place as the happiest country in the world, according to the annual World Happiness Report published in 2018 on research conducted between 2015 and 2017....
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...world from heating to the point it becomes uninhabitable for future generations?...Code Red for Humanity The extent of the challenge has been set out in the starkest of terms by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) in their August 2021 report. They state that there is no room for doubt that climate change is the result of human activity and that the...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...world, about people on the other side of the globe. I thought about how little attention I pay to the natural world around me. I doubted that I’d notice any changes in my local river, but knew that I’d spot a new café opening next to it. When I first read about the changing course of the Dordogne in Montaigne’s essay, I went on a different mental journey. I thought...
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Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...world, creator and ruler of the universe. religion System of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or God. As I say, these possible definitions are not beyond challenge just because they might appear in a dictionary. As it happens, I made them up, just to give two starting-points for our discussion. So perhaps they can be improved upon...Introducing the philosophy...
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