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Adam Jacot de BoinodROYAL PRIVILEGES AND PREROGATIVES
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Britain and London, in particular, is riddled with some of the most peculiar rules and privileges. These are manifested in the many royal prerogatives as well as parliamentary and legal statutes. For example: under a decree of Charles 2nd six ravens must be kept in the Tower at all times (for... Read more
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OXBRIDGE PECULARITIES
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Oxford and Cambridge, along with Sandhurst, the MCC, Eton College, the Garter Ceremony etc., represent a rare zenith of British institutions and elitism. I am fascinated by all the peculiarities of language and unique characteristics of custom that exist at both these pre-eminent Universities. Sub... Read more
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Adam Jacot de Boinod
SAVILE ROW’S FIRST FEMALE TAILOR
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Kathryn Sargent has entered one of the last male bastions namely Savile Row, the tailoring street in Mayfair. Formerly the location for the filming of the Beatles ‘Let it be’ it has recently been modernised by the arrival of Abercrombie and Fitch’s destination store, complete with model assistants.... Read more
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Adam Jacot de Boinod
CUBAN CIGARS
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Having visited Cuba recently I am now well acquainted with the great Cuban tradition of cigar making. Cohiba is probably the most well known of cigar brands in history. Much of this cigar brands name recognition however is due to its founders’ cleverness. Romeo y Julieta has a similar history.... Read more
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LONDON'S GUILDS AND LIVERIES
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Scattered around the heart of the City of London and dating back to Tudor times, there are as many as 108 livery companies ... London's ancient and modern trade associations and guilds. Most Livery Companies continue to be involved with their respective trade, craft or profession. Several companies... Read more
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Adam Jacot de Boinod
THE WORLD OF COLLECTIBLES
London, United Kingdom • Arts & Books • 31 Dec 2019
“Hard nose investors and passionate collectors make strange bedfellows. True collectors are not investment driven.” Telling words indeed. I am keen to examine this alternative world of investment, the state of the respective markets and the advice given by experts to temper the collectors’ passion... Read more
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Adam Jacot de Boinod
LONDON'S ICE CREAM PARLOURS
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Records suggest that the ‘iced cream’ or ‘creamed ice’ was adopted in Europe in medieval times. Such had been the demand for ice that wealthy people built icehouses on their estates. Then, along came Carlo Gatti, a Swiss émigré, settling in Holborn’s Italian neighbourhood, to open a café... Read more
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LONDON'S CHELSEA PENSIONERS
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
Just south of London’s Kings Road and just north of the Thames is the impressive Royal Hospital, home for over 300 years to the Chelsea Pensioners. Charles II founded it for "the relief and succour" of his veteran soldiers and Sir Christopher Wren designed it. There are two categories of Chelsea... Read more
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WHO IS A NATIONAL TREASURE AND WHY
London, United Kingdom • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
The Queen and Sir David Attenborough have both been part of our lives as a constant for decades and a reassuringly familiar presence. And they are two of a kind, two of a club if you like, in that they represent, as much as anyone our archetypal “National Treasures”. Of course the notion of a... Read more
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Marc Figuerola DelgadoBREAKING NEWS IN CATALONIA
Barcelona, Spain • Breaking News • 31 Dec 2019
I am available to radio and TV stations to report about the latest breaking news about Catalan affairs. English and Spanish. I am also available for scouting if you send a reporter. Read more
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Marco De VidiStories from Venice, Italy: cruise ships, over-tourism, the difficulty of living in the city
Venice, Italy • Travel • 31 Dec 2019
I am available as a journalist and as a fixer for stories about the city of Venice, Italy. I recently worked as a fixer for the Daily Mail, the second best-selling newspaper in UK, for a feature article about cruise ships and over-tourism by David Jones. In the last weeks I also realized an... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-StolbergLions, Tigers, and Bears - Oh My! 100 Hundred Years of Munich's Circus Krone
Munich, Germany • Cultural • 31 Dec 2019
In 1919, after the end of World War I, the Krone family of Munich, which had had a traveling animal show since 1870, opened Circus Krone in Munich. In 2019 Circus Krone will celebrate 100 years of great traditional and innovative circus entertainment as the world’s circus that has performed for the... Read more
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Arun AsthanaSet Up, Revamp and Training for TV News Network
New Delhi, India • Business, Technology, Media Training, Training • 31 Dec 2019
We help set-up and launch of new TV stations as well as revamping of existing players by providing expertise in business model, technology, training, branding, manpower structuring, recruitment, content strategy, distribution strategy, launch and post launch handholding. Our clients are prominent... Read more
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Melissa ChemamEuropean citizens facing the grim prospect of Brexit
London, United Kingdom • Politics • 31 Dec 2019
Hello there, since the "Brexit" referendum in 2016, I've collected interviews and testimonies of European citizens from all over the UK on their future prospects and the hardship of recent negative changes. I've worked on many angles and with people from the health sector, the music industry, in... Read more
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Emmanuel NKANGURABREAKING NEWS IN RWANDA
Kigali, Rwanda • Current Affairs • 31 Dec 2019
Am available to Radio and Television organisations in need of content in Rwanda, if you send a reporter am also available to help in scouting.. Read more
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Marina OlivetoFilmmaker, 360 Filmmaker and Breaking News
Lisbon, Portugal • Natural Disasters, Film & Theatre, Sports, Investigative Reporting, Research, Social, Training, Breaking News • 31 Mar 2020
I am a freelance Filmmaker and 360 Filmmaker based in German andPortugal. I am available to cover breaking news and to produce theme based short documentaries and news package and 360 production. Read more
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Jonathan MitchellUK's first spaceport planned in sleepy north coast of Scotland village
Tongue, United Kingdom • Business, Current Affairs, Technology, Science & Environment • 31 May 2020
In August 2018, the UK government announced that they had selected a site near Tongue, Sutherland, Scotland, UK to be the site of the UK's first spaceport. For the crofters (farmers) of nearby Melness, who jointly own the site, it's 'Rockets Galore' - as the spaceport will turn a sleepy north coast... Read more
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Enos DenhereA Billion Reasons To Believe In Pan Africanism .
Harare, Zimbabwe • Business, Finance, Politics, Current Affairs, Arts & Books, Research, Social, Cultural, Breaking News • 01 Jun 2020
Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent. ... At its core Pan-Africanism is "a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a... Read more
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Jackie Guigui-Stolberg
What the World Kneads Now: The International Diploma in German Bread Baking
München, Germany • Food & Drink • 30 Jun 2020
Imagine the springy warmth of a yeast dough, steaming-fresh from the oven, or the crunchy crust of a whole-wheat sour-dough bread bristling with toasted sunflower seeds, or the delicate, buttery flakes of a fine puff-pastry twist. Or an enormous pretzel worthy of the Oktoberfest, studded with salt... Read more
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Mohammad Zubair khanScarified for the Kalash tribes, lost sons of Alexander the great.
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan • Natural Disasters • 01 Jul 2020
Scarified for the Kalash tribes, lost sons of Alexander the great. Kalash tribes are known as lost sons of Alexander, famous for the unique culture and... Read more
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Beryl OsindoEarly marriages in western kenya
Nairobi, Kenya • Cultural • 01 Sep 2020
Early Marriages in Rural Kenya and Informal Settings For a long period in my life, I struggled to understand why my parents never wanted my family to stay in our ancestral home except on vacations. My six siblings and I felt overly important each fortnight of the family vacation. We were the... Read more
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Munich Confronts its Nazi Past at the National Socialist Documentation Center
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
The Braunes Haus, the building that housed Nazi party headquarters in Munich from 1930 to 1945, in fact no longer exists; it was destroyed by Allied forces after the war. But precisely at the site where it once stood, the National Socialist Documentation Center represents Munich's final coming to... Read more
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Strolling Through History: A Walking Tour to Remember Munich's Nazi Past
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
The name of Munich's most successful walking-tours company, "Stattreisen" is a play on German words that mean something most closely translatable as "alternative trips". The message is clear: on a "Stattreisen" walking tour you will experience the Bavarian capital in unusual ways, with... Read more
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"Blindgänger" (Unexploded Bombs in Germany) - Blasts from the Past
München, Germany • Cultural • 30 Sep 2020
For countless reasons, World War II is present in the German psyche and memory for many people in the general population on almost a daily basis. Cities like Berlin and Dresden, for example, still have eerily empty spaces in the middle of town, where it is obvious that some edifice once stood there... Read more
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Mohammed SulemanPoor Infrastructures in Our Basic Schools
Ayensuano,Ghana • Social • 30 Dec 2020
The Yaw Donkor D/A Basic school in Yaw Donkokrom within bepoase, an electoral area in Ayensuano district has a population of 160 pupils with a three unit classroom block. The three unit classroom is shared among the primary and junior high level creating unconducive environment for teaching and... Read more
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People and School children Get Stranded due to Absence of a Footbridge on the River
Ayensuano,Ghana • Social • 30 Dec 2020
People of Agyei Krom suffers to reach other communities as the log serving as a footbridge on the Ayensu River can cause a havoc if not rehabilitated.The only route to the communities educational facility hence when it rains,pupils have to either swim through the river or stays at home for... Read more
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Germany's Stagecoach Inns
Munich, Germany • Food & Drink • 31 Dec 2020
The easiest way to find an excellent and atmospheric restaurant in Germany is to look for the main church in old town and village squares. Next to the church you will often find a large old building bearing the name "Gasthof zur Post." After the fifteenth-century founding of postal routes along the... Read more
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Cloth fit for a King
Bavaria, Germany • Cultural • 31 Dec 2020
Volker Illimann was born into a family of textile manufacturers and is one of Europe's leading experts on historical fabrics. His expertise has made cloth reconstruction possible for exquisite furniture in many castles and palaces in Germany: in Potsdam, Würzburg, Munich... Not only does he know... Read more
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tissier louisworld music, a vector of tolerance
Olargues, France • Music • 31 Dec 2020
The world music is a vector of encounter between the peoples. Many festivals in France and northern Africa present talented artists of the world. Music is a weapon against intolerance, racism and extremism. I present these artists in my video packages and extracts of their performance. Read more
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All Around the Chiemsee: The Bavarian Sea (travel story, Germany)
München, Germany • Cultural • 31 Dec 2020
Article proposal: All Around the Chiemsee: the Bavarian Sea (An article could be about the Chiemsee (Chiem Lake) as a whole, or about only one aspect of it or particular site, as you prefer.) The Chiemsee is Germany’s third largest lake with over 60 kilometers of shoreline and is located less... Read more