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Furniture, Fashion and Food

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January 7th 2011
Dear Reader There are lots of ways into another culture from afar – Books Movies Web sites Food Furniture Fashion The other day when Guapo and I were browsing through the local Salvation Army store, we came across a buffet, or sideboard, in Spanish colonial style. It looks unusual for our area where most old furniture is either colonial Australian, or En ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more