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Streitmatt

Renaming Remaining

  • Streitmatt R
    The renaming of cities is an interesting phenomena. Almost all cities, over time, have been renamed. From New Amsterdam/New York to the city that I live in, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. Saigon and HCMC largely remain interchangable in common parlance.
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    * Cities * colonization * names * nomenclature, Alexandre de Rhodes, Azania, Bombay, Borges, Calcutta, Cape Town, Chennai, city, Harare, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Tzu Nyen, Kolkata, Lee Weng Choy, Leningrad, Madras, Mumbai, Mzanzi, New York, Rangoon, Salisbury, St. Petersburg, Western Transvaal, Yangon

The Jungle Book - Part 1: Discoveries

  • Streitmatt R
    As reported on BBC, there has been, perhaps, another discovery of Japanese soldiers found in the jungles of the Philippines, speculated as belonging to the Panther group during WWII.
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    * anthropology * Art * discovery * ethnography, Amazon, Artstar, Cambodia, Deitch Projects, Hiroo Onoda, Laos, Mindinao Island, Philippines, Phnom Penh, Ratanakiri Province