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Mardi Gras: carnival Louisiana style

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It's Fat Tuesday! Wouldn't you like to be in New Orleans?

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Exposing rape culture one #MeToo at a time

"Why hadn’t I kneed him in the gonads? Why hadn’t I gotten up and moved somewhere else? Why hadn’t I shouted and woken everyone up and told them all what he had done? I don’t know. But I do now." #MeToo

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Notenspur: unlocking Leipzig’s musical treasures

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The beauty of the project is that it can be actively enjoyed, with not only the sight and intellectual senses being awakened, but with the possibility of hearing music samples at each location, or imagining the songbird in a Leipzig park which inspired one of Mahler’s melodies.

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Nordic writers: a special way with words

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For long they've been leaving their mark in the literary world - way before the girl came along with her dragon tattoo.

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Botswana: founded on interracial love

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"The romance of Seretse and Ruth was one of the great love stories of the world," Julius Nyerere reportedly said. Watch their tale unfold - and how it relates to Botswana's statehood - in "A United Kingdom," playing at Leipzig cinemas.

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Keep calm and look up the Queen on Wikipedia

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Everything you wanted to know about the Queen of England, the world's oldest historical people, and politicians' candy drawers but were afraid to ask.

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