Get ready for a flouting weekend with the Hot Sardines.
Somewhere in Africa, the YouTube video doesn't say where, a village woman cooks a meal of mutton curry and cabbage. The meat is steamed with a small amount of water in a pot, and then the spices to make the curry are added. The cabbage is mixed with vegetables. She then mixes some sort of a flour concoction, it isn't bread, rather it is more of a paste.
She cooks it all over an open fire while around her, her kids who are well behaved, and the chickens occupy themselves. They eat it with their hands.
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Rudolph Belarski (1900 - 1983) was an American artist who specialized in pulp magazine art. At a young age he quit school and went to work in coal mines. During that time, he taught himself art via correspondence courses. Eventually he began painting covers for various magazines. He did crime, sci-fi and adventure covers. Late in his life he became an instructor for correspondence schools, completing the circle so to speak.
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Get ready for a beauteous weekend with Los Kjarkas.
Rosario is a village in the Cavite province of the Philippines. It is a fishing village, which both catches and processes fish. In the past it had the reputation of being a rough area, with a lot of local gang activity. As you can see in the walk, although there is no overt hostility, there are a fair number if hard looking characters keeping a close eye on the camera man.
The village is very basic looking, with shacks mixed in with simple concrete block buildings. The beach, with the small fishing boats pulled up onto it, is very scenic.
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Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) was a British realist painter. As well as portraits, he is best remembered for his paintings of domestic scenes, with both the well-off and the poor as subjects. He worked in oils and watercolor.
(Note: this was first posted on November 17, 2009. I'm reposting it today for the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing)
A few years ago I happened to visited Hiroshima on August 7th, one day after the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
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Summer is upon us, and with it comes heat and the need to cool off. One of the age-old methods to do that is the handheld paper or bamboo fan. They work well and can be either plain or decorated (this post is not about their decorations; a topic for another day). Aside from cooling, wielded in the right young lady's hands they can also be an effective tool for flirtation. Due to the prevalence of AC, they are far more common in the east than the west.