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Research Center Bye bye baby boogie

:: Title :: Bye Bye Baby

:: Genre :: blues, boogie woogie

:: Performers & Instruments ::

Sanders, Robert (Yancey) [guitar]

Stewart, W. D. (Bama) [guitar, vocal]

:: Setting :: Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)

:: Location :: Lambert (Quitman County), Mississippi (United States)

:: Language :: English

:: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi

:: Session :: Parchman 12/47

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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Farkhunda’s Force

Farkhunda, what shall I say

How to tell this endless story

From her eyes of tears

To the boldness in her face

Her injured body

I cry out with her pain

They broke her legs and hands

Yet still she stood

They pulled her silken hair

They razed her beautiful skin

Her face was bloody

They kicked her thin body

With a closed mouth

She begged with her eyes

For the sake of God

I am innocent, innocent

They uncovered her

But she still stood strong

I haven’t done anything wrong

They burned her body, could not mute her voice

They were men

Famous for bravery

Surrounding one woman

They were men

Called themselves manly Muslims

Tortured a helpless woman

Setting fire to a defenseless woman

Calling themselves patrons of Islam

They were men

Mark them forever as traitors

Those savage rioters

In the bodies of men

Farkhunda suffered and died

But her force lives on

By Sitara

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Farkhunda’s Force.

Anglo-Saxon cow bile and garlic potion kills MRSA – Telegraph

A thousand-year-old medieval remedy for eye infections which was discovered in a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the superbug MRSA.

Anglo-Saxon expert Dr Christina Lee, from the School of English, at Nottingham University, recreated the 10th century potion to see if it really worked as an antibacterial remedy.

The ‘eyesalve’ recipe calls for two species of Allium (garlic and onion or leek), wine and oxgall (bile from a cow’s stomach).

It describes a very specific method of making the topical solution including the use of a brass vessel to brew it, a strainer to purify it and an instruction to leave the mixture for nine days before use.

None of the experts really expected the concoction to work. But when it was tested, microbiologists were amazed to find that not only did the salve clear up styes, but it also tackled the deadly superbug MRSA, which is resistant to many antibiotics.

via Anglo-Saxon cow bile and garlic potion kills MRSA – Telegraph.

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 13 ( March 23-28)

Nervana

 

Qatari emir in Egypt

( Egypt’s El-Sisi receives Qatari Emir ahead of Arab summit via Ahram)

Main Headlines 

Monday

Tuesday

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Hiba Tawaji Wins & Advances To The Final Stages Of France’s The Voice

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Hiba Tawaji has won her part of the knockout stages (epreuve ultime) in France’s The Voice – the last of the previously taped segments of the show – and has advanced to the finals of the show, the live shows.

Starting next week, Hiba along with 3 other candidates in her team, will perform a song of their choice to the public live after which audiences will get a chance to vote for all candidates, making sure one of them proceeds to the following week in the progress while the coach chooses who of the other candidates remains and one is eliminated.

If the hype is to be believed, Tawaji has a good chance at advancing in the live shows. Her performances are reportedly among the most watched of the show (her audition has over 1 million hits on YouTube and over 600,000 on TF1’s website, well ahead of all…

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Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change — BagNews

These nature photos by Australian photographer, Ray Collins, have been circulating widely on Twitter and Reddit. Here’s a collection at BoredPanda. What’s so distinct about these waves is that they almost appear solid, as if they were mountains. The article explains their power and interest in terms of their ability to capture the “raw, majestic, natural power of the sea.” But, could there be more at play here?

I think these photos are particularly powerful because they reflect “the inconvenient truth” that we can no longer trust what’s “natural.” Isn’t the ocean rising here and other bodies of water receding there, so much so that it’s pushing the lines? And, how much and how fast is the altered course of the environment reshaping how much we can trust it? Majesty notwithstanding, makes these photos so powerful (to me, at least, and I assume, to a much larger undercurrent) is how much more indeterminate nature, and our perception of nature, has become.

via Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change — BagNews.

Research Center – Vera Hall I’ll Fly Away

This session of recordings represents the only time that Vera Ward Hall left the state of Alabama. She was invited to New York by Alan Lomax to perform in the Fourth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music at Columbia University in the City of New York, May 10th through May 16th, 1948, sponsored by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. Vera performed on Saturday, May 15th, 8:30pm, at the McMillin Theater. The concert was entitled Ballads, Hoe-Downs, Spirituals (White and Negro), and Blues, with performances by Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith, Jean Ritchie, Brownie Mcghee, Vera Hall, Dan Burley, Pete Seeger, and narrations by Alan Lomax. These recordings were made not at the concert, but during the remainder of Vera Hall?s stay in New York with Alan Lomax.

via Research Center.