The early roots of Carnival? Research reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil
Pre-colonial people in Brazil may have gathered in summer months to feast on migratory fish and share alcoholic drinks, a new ...
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Spanish Version of White House Website Has Vanished (Again)
The Spanish-language website also vanished at the start of President Trump’s first term. No time frame was set for restoring it. By Tim Balk As the White House underwent a dramatic remake on ...
Indiatimes21d
UK drained $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule; billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024: Key points of Oxfam report
Oxfam International’s report highlights how colonial wealth extraction, particularly from India, has laid the foundation for modern economic inequalities, including the dominance of unearned ...
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UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule. Richest 10% got most of the cash
The report, titled 'Takers, not Makers' and released here on Monday hours before the start of the annual meeting of the rich and powerful across the globe, cited several studies and research papers to ...
Hindustan Times21d
UK's richest 10% took half of colonial India's extracted wealth, ‘enough to carpet London’s surface 4 times'
Oxfam's new report said billionaire wealth grew by $2 trillion last year, or roughly $5.7 billion a day, three-times faster than in 2023. Rights group Oxfam's latest report released on Monday said ...
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Statue of Spanish conquistador Pizarro returned to Lima city centre, bucking anti-colonial trend
Effigy of soldier who conquered Peru after slaughtering the Incas reinstated in heart of city – but indigenous people brand it an ‘insult’ A statue of a Spanish conquistador has ...
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Colonial Pipeline repairs completed Friday morning, officials say
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. - Colonial Pipeline announced Friday morning that repairs to its gasoline pipeline, Line 1, in Paulding County, have been successfully completed. The line, which had been shut ...
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Colonial Pipeline expects main gasoline artery to restart on Friday
Jan 16 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline has made progress in identifying the source of a leak on its main gasoline artery and estimates Line 1 will restart on Friday, earlier than previous ...
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Colonial Pipeline's main US gasoline artery likely shut until Friday
NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline's main U.S. gasoline artery is expected to remain shut through Friday as the company continues to search for the source of a suspected leak in ...
NOLA.com28d
This New Orleans fort dates to the 1770s, but the structure beneath it is much, much older
Spanish Fort on Bayou St. John in New Orleans was built under Spanish colonial rule in the 1770s ... variation in material culture (manifested as pottery styles, house types, ways of subsisting ...
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Rommel Padillo Serrano Champions Filipino Heritage with Stunning Spanish Colonial-Themed Weddings
Recently, Serrano captivated audiences with his Spanish colonial-themed wedding designed for Kelvin dela Cruz and Maria Isabel Formigones, held at the iconic San Agustin Church in Intramuros. The ...
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Trump won’t rule out force to take Greenland – a country with a complex colonial history
Last week, Greenland’s prime minister Múte Egede called for independence from Denmark and for the “shackles of the colonial era” to be broken. Last year, on December 23, he explicitly ...