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Les precipitacions entre el 17 i 18 d’octubre del 1940 foren tan intenses, que en algun punt del territori se superaren els 1.000 mm.
Rainfall between October 17 and 18, 1940, was so intense that it exceeded three feet in some parts of the region.
Puppets weren’t a common form of entertainment in Jewish culture, but in the mid-1920s, puppetry had become hot in American theater.
As a folklorist, I was particularly intrigued by the notion that Burning Man was primarily a folk group.
Christine Kreamer is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, but in 1969 she was seventeen, sneaking out her bedroom window.
We sing Christian hymns in a vocal style better fitting a frontier camp meeting in the early 1800s—or a punk show—than a mainline church today.
“Aquí se podría encontrar una cura para la angustia y la soledad de estar lejos de su hogar porque, bueno, era su hogar”.
“Here you could find a cure for the heartbreak and loneliness of being away from home because, well, it was home.”
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