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Ancient Word of the Day: Siamang

Content Catnip

Endangered siamangs are the largest type of the gibbon family. They have distinctive black coats and communicate using a complex system of booming calls. They have gorgeous throat sacks that swell up as they sing together. Like other gibbons they form gregarious and close-knit family groups. They face a major existential threat from palm oil deforestation and illegal animal trafficking that occurs as a result of this deforestation.

Did you know name of one of the most vocal gibbons of the Bornean jungle ‘Siamang’ originates from several indigenous languages in the Central Aslian group in SE Asia?

Siamang: n.ultimate originof the wordʔamang(where theʔrepresents a glottal stop), is from several indigenous languages of the Central Aslian group.

When speakers of Malay borrowed the wordʔamang, they added the personal articlesi. Similar to an honorific like “mister”,sigenerally applies only to humans, or to animals…

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updated Review of a Library Book Worth Buying: Separate and Unequal, by S. Gillon

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

        Project Do Better strongly urges the supporting of our library systems, which is where I discovered this book, but some books are also worth buying as references. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon, is one of them.

     How sad that the contents and conclusions of this report are still relevant, and still ignored, today, 50 years after it was released in response to the riots in Newark and Detroit of the “long hot” summer of 1967. I found this book after seeing Dr. King’s response to the question, during the Memphis garbage workers’ strike, of what it would take to prevent or call off his Poor People’s March on Washington: the answer was to implement the recommendations in this report.

     The report was commissioned to find out what caused…

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Narcisista

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Quando você escolhe uma pessoa para construir uma vida a dois, uma relação com o propósito de constituir família, projetos e sonhos em comum, você não sabe como realmente é a pessoa com quem casar-se com ela. Às vezes, se tem uma informação por conviver um determinado período de tempo, mas isso não significa ” conhecê- la”. conhecer, realmente, não é possível em alguns meses ou dois, três anos de namoro. Na verdade, se tem uma rara relação de valores e princípios que dependendo da forma de como você se relaciona, descobre o que é necessário para casar com ela. Geralmente, nós mulheres nos casamos com homens com qualidades que elegemos ser boas. Por isso, há a admiração, o encanto no primeiro momento, e uma série de situações que fazem com que se goste da pessoa. Todavia, o que se tem de informação a respeito dela é o mínimo, porque…

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♫ The Israelites ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

I’ve played this one here on Filosofa’s Word twice, in 2018 and 2019, but yesterday after playing “I Can See Clearly Now” by Johnny Nash, rawgod responded with a comment and included a link to this song, “The Israelites”, and BAM!  I knew I had my song for today!  I always loved this one, despite the fact that until I first researched it for my blog, I never got the lyrics right … but then, from previous comments, I don’t think anybody else did, either!


Released in October 1968, this song, written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong, became a hit for Dekker’s group, Desmond Dekker & The Aces.  According to Dekker …

“It all happened so quickly. I didn’t write that song sitting around a piano or playing a guitar. I was walking in the park, eating corn. I heard a couple arguing about money. She was saying she…

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Green

Kaushal Kishore

I’m fresh, cool, calm and tranquil,
not immature,
between blue and yellow,
I’m life and luck,
giving new hope new life  
and new energy,
symbolising nature and lush vegetation,
down to earth,
from grass to leaves and plants,
I’m common,
my chlorophyll helps them make
foods to feed you,
pick me up for my love, ingenuity
and perfection,
remember green always grows
while others may rot,
be green and keep the green
in your heart too…

P.S.
Earth Hour is observed annually on the last Saturday of March, i.e. today on March 25 this year from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. across the world in their local time zones.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (W.W.F.) created Earth Hour, which is observed annually since 2007 and encourages individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights to give one hour to the earth, by spending 60 minutes doing something…

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