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“King voor Sylvana en Obama: 'De strijd moet voortgezet'”

“Woensdag is het precies vijftig jaar geleden dat Martin Luther King werd vermoord. De Amsterdamse kunstenaar Airco Caravan maakte vijftig beeldjes van de dominee en burgerrechtenactivist en verspreidt ze wereldwijd. Adriaan van Dis kreeg er een, en Sylvana Simons. Eén is nog onderweg naar de Obama's. (...)” (Lido em: Volkskrant 2021-10-11)

"Dans le Brésil de Jair Bolsonaro, des néonazis de plus en plus visibles et décomplexés"

"Ces dernières années, le nombre de scandales impliquant des admirateurs du IIIe Reich a explosé dans le pays. Pour certains spécialistes, ce n’est que la partie émergée de l’iceberg. (...)"    (Lido em Le Monde 2021-10-11)

“The unearthing of Ireland's mysterious naked sweathouses”

Until the 1900s, when people in Ireland got sick, they would get naked and disappear into steamy saunas. Now, a new project is aiming to uncover these timeworn structures' secrets.

Naked and sweaty, they laid inside grass-covered stone igloo-like structures in the remote fields of Ireland. Some were ill, others may have been having hallucinations, hatching plans to distil illegal alcohol or imagining they were the Vikings who once raided this country. By the time these addled folk emerged from the structures back into the fresh air of 19th-Century Ireland, they had been through a jarring mental and physical journey. One that still holds many mysteries. (Lido em BBCNews 2021-10-11)