Five Facts about Taffy: Salt water taffy was “invented” in Atlantic City in 1883. Modern technology allows confectioners to produce 1,000 pieces of taffy a minute. In one hour enough pieces of taf… Source: May 23rd is National Taffy Day| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Originally posted on DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture: 37 years ago, on the 3rd February, the great Egyptian diva and songwriter – Umm Kalthum – died, well into her 70s. Last night BBC Worldservice …| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Originally posted on DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture: A bowl of kishk topped with sautéed onions, an Egyptian dish made with thickened milk or yogurt and topped with fried onions. It is described in the…| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Echoes in the Mist On the left, the forest caretaker, on the right, Mr. Selvapandian. The sun was warm in early February. The trees were beautiful and tall, having grown up in just a few short years on land that … Continue reading →| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Originally posted on DIOSCORUS BOLES ON COPTIC NATIONALISM: The oldest known Coptic icon was found in Bawit in Middle Egypt in 1900 by the French archaeologist Jean Clédat (1871 – 1943) who discovered the large Coptic Monastery of St. Apollo that…| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Originally posted on Rachel Strohm: Photo from Richard Mosse’s series of infrared portraits in eastern DRC Grant Gordon has a fascinating new working paper which offers a reinterpretation of the connection between violence against civilians and the FARDC’s inability to…| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
In retribution for the ‘prying’ or ‘intrusive curiosity’ inherent in the reading of another’s words, the Argentine novelist Manuel Puig entitled a 1980 work ‘Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages.’ The same sentiment appears in Egyptian magic. A … Continue reading →| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
Originally posted on Bridges from Bamako: “A tragedy of epic proportions” — that’s how the International Organization for Migration describes what’s been happening to the migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year. On the African continent, while instability and…| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
A take by Reeder = .. it is not coincidental that the Egyptian word muu, for the so-called muu dancers, … who were responsible for bringing the souls of the dead to the afterworld, referred to jesters, buffoons, and dwarfs (Budge, 1978; Faulkner, 1986), for these … Continue reading →| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture
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