Beaches, shopping, historic sites await at this 503-year-old city
The Puerto Rican military outpost founded in 1521 is not only the oldest city in the U.S., but it's vibrant with color, ...
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Spanish potter settles in 'porcelain capital'
The 32-year-old artist, who has spent the past three years in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, China's "porcelain capital", ...
With a new David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist’s L.A. haunts
Artist David Hockney used to cruise Los Angeles in his Mercedes. From the Chateau Marmont to Gemini G.E.L., we recreate his ...
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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Artifacts at destroyed Pasadena temple survive Eaton Fire, signaling a new beginning
In 1990, the temple honored Abe and Florence Katzman for their 44 years of service. Before that, they recognized Abe as its Congregant of the Year. Their daughters would later move away, but Abe and ...
The Indian Express17d
The British Raj through George Orwell’s eyes: How colonial India shaped the literary legend
And, it was, arguably, his tryst with the British Raj that catalysed his transformation from Eric Blair – the son of a colonial opium agent – to ... the throat fighting right-wing fascists in the ...
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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 ...
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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'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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UK's richest 10% took half of India's wealth during colonial era: Oxfam report
The report also specified that colonial practices perpetuated systemic wealth extraction from the Global South to the Global North, benefiting a select elite. “This has created a deeply unequal ...
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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 restarts main gasoline artery after fixing leak in Georgia
NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline restarted its main gasoline artery, which delivers fuel from the U.S. Gulf Coast to East Coast markets, on Friday after it was shut earlier this week ...