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Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service! This event support community gardens throughout Waco and celebrates the legacy of Dr. King in making a difference in our communities. Every individual volunteer must complete a registration form. If you are registering family members, please have each adult…
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Victoria Harbour with Hong Kong Island in the background, c.1862. Unknown artist. We are excited to announce the tentative programme for our conference ‘Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues‘ which takes place in Hong Kong on the 15th and 16th June 2023. The event is funded by the History Department and Modern…
This essay was written by Leo Porte, who works on the assessment of the humanitarian needs in the Eastern part of the DRC and is based in the Kivu provinces since 2022. Read his other essays from here and here. On the 31st of December 2023, Felix Tshisekedi was reelected President of the Democratic Republic…
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This is a reflection diary for the third semester for me. The blog research in this semester allowed me to look at the city from a different perspective than usual. Taking several controversial buildings as the starting point, I was able to see that architectural design in the city is not simply independent of each…
This is a follow-up to my report from 2013 when I last visited Copenhagen. This time I came to join the celebrations for the opening of the Cityringen, or metro line M3, which happened on 29 September 2019, luckily without any last-minute delay as had occured in Aarhus two years ago. Osterport station – trains…
Banksy’s Vest, a poignant and provocative work that fuses patriotism with the realities of violence, made headlines at the recent Sotheby’s auction held on 9th October 2024. The iconic bullet proof Vest, executed in 2019 and numbered 1 from an edition of 5, surpassed all expectations by selling for an astounding £780,000, over its estimated…
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The 3rd Annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census will be Friday, August 20th and Saturday, August 21st, 2021. This event brings citizens scientists from across Georgia together for insect education and conservation. Are those dates on your calendar? Won’t you join us? Why Count Insects? Understanding pollinators and other beneficial insects is imperative to Georgia’s ecosystem…
It’s cherry season!! There are two sweet cherry trees on 28th Street, and my they have grown. One of them was in the fire we experienced November of 2017, and got pretty charred on one side because the redwood shed burned to the ground, and they were close together. The trees also suffer from ants…
I think it’s time we have a talk about cilantro. This popular herb is quite possibly the most misunderstood crop in the vegetable garden. If you’ve ever said something akin to: “I can’t grow cilantro. Whenever I try, it bolts right away!”, you’re not alone. Many people have a hard time growing cilantro and some…
“Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fire.” . . . Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gifted it to humanity, for which he was punished by Zeus. Chained to a rock, he had his liver eaten by eagles each day, only for it…
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