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Category: history
[Radio] Afropop Worldwide
Ned Sublette presents The Fertile Crescent: Haiti, Cuba and Louisiana; episode is from December 2011.
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/68863238″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]Clinton on pbs.org
Watch Clinton Chapter 1 on PBS. See more from American Experience.
Clinton premieres February 20th and 21st on PBS.
Leonardo, chef
Leonardo was a mad chef. He enjoyed kitchen contraptions, of his own designs; but, how would it run? “By wind or by water? By cogs and by cranks? By oxen or by peasant-power?” In the late 1490s, most things ran via peasant-power.
Assassin’s Creed did a good job shaping my image of Leonardo; I don’t see him as an old man anymore. Leonardo in the game loves a puzzle, old language and of course, puzzles buried n old language. This blog post on The Kitchen Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , HarperCollins Publishers; First Edition edition (April 1, 1987), has also informed that image.
Maps of Africa
Evolution of the Map of Africa « HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT. maps are from Princeton Univeristy Library.
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Miami-Dade demographic data
US Census released American Community Survey, 2005-2009 data set that gives a snapshot of the American population. The Herald reported on the data for Miami-Dade and Broward.
Some interesting facts:
- Miami-Dade’s population about 2.5 million.
- 61 % Hispanics, 20 % Blacks, the rest being mostly white non-Hispanics.
- Median family income : $39,000 – Blacks, $45,000 – Hispanics, $84,000 – White; $62,000 – US
via Miami-Dade is rich, poor, polarized and getting better educated – Miami-Dade – MiamiHerald.com.
Overtown Music Project
Amy Rosenberg invites us all to …
… the Overtown Music Project, a non-profit that celebrates the music, history and spirit of Overtown.
Saturday, July 17th from 8 – 11pm. There will be music, soul food and a bit of Miami’s history
[NPR] The Declaration of Independence, Read aloud
I always enjoy listening to the Declaration, being read. NPR‘s twenty-second reading.