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The Kogi or Kogui or Kaggabba, translated “jaguar” in the Kogi language are a Native American ethnic group that lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are one of the few surviving Pre-Columbian civilizations of South America.
The Kogui language belongs to the Chibcha family.
“The journey to reach their native lands involves [...]

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He [...]

The Yawalapiti are an indigenous tribe in the Amazonian Basin of Brazil. The name is also spelled Yawalapiti, and Iaualapiti in Portuguese. The current village Yawalapiti is situated more to the south, between the Tuatuari and Kuluene River.
The Yawalapiti language belongs to the Arawakan family.

Population
7 (2005 Vogel). Ethnic population: 220.

Region
Mato Grosso, Xingú Park.

Alternate names
Jaulapiti, Yaulapiti

Dialects
Related [...]

Born
Dorothy Irene Height March 24, 1912(1912-03-24) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.

Died
April 20, 2010 (aged 98) Washington, D.C., U.S.

Occupation
Educator and social activist

Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential [...]

Albert Schweitzer

In the perspective of A parliamentary election held in Iraq on 7 March 2010 and the Oscars 2010 best original screenplay for the  movie “The Hurt Locker” (which gives a perspective of the Iraq war)
Here is a comment I made back in 2007 on Mark Joyner’s
blog post:
March 13, 2007
Dear Bill O’Reilly (About The [...]

The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History.
From: Wikipedia®

From: ® http://www.haydenplanetarium.org
Since February 2000, the planetarium has been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The top half of the [...]

First ‘Human Rights Charter’ is Persian

A 2,500-year-old clay cylinder bears what has been called the world’s “first human rights charter” and was inscribed under the direction of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. In the Greek Bible (Isaiah 45:1), Cyrus is called “Christ” (“…τῷ χριστῷ μου Κύρῳ…”) or [...]

le 19 janvier 2010 8h12 | par Joël Bomane
January 19, 2010 9:05 | by Jacques Attali
As often, a natural event can be used as a metaphor for a social phenomenon.
And, to describe and understand crises, nothing is better than the metaphor
of an earthquake.
First, an economic crisis, like any earthquake, is the result [...]

Michael Sandel
“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history”
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“Sandel has opened up an important area of debate at a time when some of the unquestioned assumptions underlying economic policy and praxis of the last few decades have been exposed as fraudulent and are being questioned. What happens [...]

© Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Recently the Dalai Lama Center Canada organized a Peace Summit in Vancouver with the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Prize winners and speakers. One evening the rock singer and humanitarian Bob Geldof, whose Live Aid concerts have [...]