Year zero 1975 was the beginning of the Khmer Rouge reign. For the people of Cambodia, this was a notion of hope. The toils of the five-year civil war, culprit to 300,000 tombs, quenched the lands with death and the people were desperate for some kind of resolution, in any form. However, with the Lon […]Read More
Most of us want to be stylish and follow fashion, but what if it is forbidden? What if you can be humiliated in the local newspaper just because you are wearing fitted pants or gaudy shirts? Nowadays this situation is unimaginable. However, from the 1940s to 1960s, it was quite usual in the Soviet Union. […]Read More
Erik Satie is acclaimed to be the world’s weirdest, most eccentric composer. He followed a strict routine and rigidly stuck to the specific bizarre time cues for a daily activity. For example, Satie would awake at 7:18am exactly, he would be inspired from 10:23 until 10:47, took to horse back from 1:19pm until 2:53 etcetera. […]Read More
In 1994, Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid established the Armed Islamic Group, most of whose members were religious school students, and the movement is known today as the “Taliban”. Mullah Mohammed Omar, Taliban’s spiritual leader During a student’s study, his academic rank progresses from one stage to another. He is called “Talib,” which in the Pashto […]Read More
In this article, we will exchange cultural recipes between Brazil and the U.S, then we will review each other’s recipes, garnished with the history of each dessert and its interesting origins. Prior to this collaboration, we haven’t tried each other’s recipes, so this will be a new experience for us both. Feel free to try […]Read More
Chinese-Indonesian people are descended from both their Chinese and Indonesian ancestors. China had been trading with kingdoms in this archipelago for a long time. This meant that Chinese who wanted to trade their commodities came and assimilated for many years. As a result, a new race of Chinese-Indonesians were born in Indonesia. Even though they […]Read More
Being at the very heart of Europe tends to throw you into the centre of bigger countries’ turmoil. Czech history has always been shaped by its unique location between the East and the West, between the North and the South. During the Thirty-Years war in the 17th century, it was the Swedish armies which invaded […]Read More
When Solomon Volkov published his book ‘Testimony’ in 1979, it not only created shock waves in Britain, but a storm. Published shortly after his death, it claimed to be Shostakovich’s memoirs narrated over a series of meetings with Volkov, portraying the composer as a suffering dissident, who spoke in support of the Communist regime out […]Read More
The novel “Doctor Zhivago” can be described as Pasternak’s “lyrical autobiography” or simply – the work of his whole life, because from its conception (1912) to the publication of the work, almost half of the writer’s life passed. Repeated attempts to start a profound and immense story ended with the creation of independent, separate novels […]Read More
It is impossible to imagine that people’s mindsets and creative activities changed completely in one year. The socialist government that seized power inspired people at first. Mottos everywhere encouraged crowds to subvert the monarchical regime. One year, 1917, comprehensively changed the course of history. From saturated and colourful canvases to gloomy and monolithic works of […]Read More
