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 February 18 Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte. So begins Alex Haley’s classic Roots: the Saga of an American Family. The book and subsequent mini-series reawakened the American consciousness to the [...]  February 18 The Nepalese flag, the only non-rectangular national flag in the world, symbolizes the two religions of Nepal—Buddhism and Hinduism—and the peaks of the Himalayas. For most of the half-century or so since Democracy Day was established in Nepal, the actual practice of democracy has been stifled or totally repressed. Ironically, Democracy Day marks the [...] |
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