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Quote for Today: David McCullough
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August 18, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: art, connectedness, David McCullough, freedom, good, history, humanity, knowledge, pleasure, reading, self, stale, story, understanding
In a Land of Queens: Daughters of Yemen
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March 14, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Presided over by Queens in ancient and medieval times, modern Yemen has been called the worst place to be female. …
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Category: Exploring Culture | Tags: Arwa al-Sulayhi, culture, devotion, history, hujjat, independence, Islam, Jibla, power, Queen, repression, tradition, women's rights, Yemen
Portraits of a Nation: The Devastating Beauty of Yemen
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March 8, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Challenged by the unknown and unfamiliar, we often turn away. Can our curiosity help us to become better, kinder people? …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Photoblogs | Tags: civilization, coffee, culture, diversity, history, humanity, landscape, photography, resilience, Sana'a, threatened, vulnerability, Yemen
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
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January 25, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: conformity, culture, Doris Lessing, history, humanity, indoctrination, paradox, prejudice, school, self, society, system, teaching, The Golden Notebook
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
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September 2, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Her name was Asia. His was Europe. Her name was silence. His was power. Her name was poverty. His was …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: changing, consequences, exploitation, fable, gender, history, hope, humanity, Men Explain Things to Me, possibility, privilege, Rebecca Solnit, shaking foundation, woman
Wistful Moments: Rebecca Bathory’s Presence of Absence
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August 1, 2016 by katmcdaniel

During our lifetime, places that are special to us either change or become abandoned, decay and disappear. Visiting places that …
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Category: Photoblogs | Tags: absence, change, community, decay, disorientation, fragility, history, humanity, memory, photography, Presence of Absence, Rebecca Bathory, resilience, time
Beneath the Garden: Il Giardino di Ninfa, Part 1
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February 23, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Forty miles from Rome, the ancient city of Ninfa has been overtaken by a lush garden. What stories hide here? …
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Category: Photoblogs | Tags: ancient, flooding, garden, history, Il Giardino di Ninfa, malaria, medieval, Ninfa, nymph, politics, Pope, Rome, ruins, water

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