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MusikantiKed mi kardtka prišla narukovat ( Read more... )

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This post is especially for szenovei, but for anyone else who may be close to or in New York this month.

Joaquín Cortés on Broadway in December

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Want to see what a Russian nuclear bomb and fallout shelter from the Cold War era looks like today?
Go on this photo tour:

Gallery 1, Entering the shelter

Gallery 2, Deep withinYou will see the underground diesel-electric generator, a control panel for the generator, a work room with desks stacked on each other, the sleeping room (that looks ( Read more... )

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The Goat Horn (Kozijat Rog) Козият рог

Time: In the 17th Century
The Setting: Bulgaria under the rule of the Turkish Ottoman Empire

The plot: A Bulgarian goatherd's wife is brutally raped and murdered by a band of Turks in full view of her little daughter, Maria. The goatherd takes the young girl high into the mountains for protection. There he ( Read more... )

I've been assembling a gallery of photos of Domari dress, but some of it is in photographically printed and mechanically printed photos. I don't have access to a scanner so I've also been searching the net. I grabbed this set from a 16 mm British documentary "The Romani Trail: Gypsy Music Into Africa" (1981). The film itself isn't that great. It's ( Read more... )

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