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The Yoga Revival

Geoff Wood: Hello I'm Geoff Wood and this is Encounter on ABC Radio National.

It's Friday night in downtown Sydney, Surry Hills, and the hotels and clubs all along this street are busy.

But the biggest crowds are right here where several hundred people have packed in for a night of chanting and devotion. It's not a night club, it's a yoga studio, and this is one the stars of yoga - the American kirtan leader, Dave Stringer

Kirtan chanting

Dave Stringer: Kirtan means literally 'to sing' in Sanskrit. What makes it different from other music is the fact that the crowd is participating in it. In the tradition that I learned it in we'll start slowly and then over time and a series of repetitions, begin to speed up until there's a wave of ecstasy, people are clapping their hands and dancing and then the wave breaks and leaves people in a place of silence.

Source: ABC Online

The History Blog » Blog Archive » 17th c. Chinese coin found in ...

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Archaeologists doing a heritage impact assessment on the site of a future gold mine northwest of Carmacks, Yukon, have unearthed a Chinese coin from the 17th century . Although old Chinese coins are fairly common finds along the northwest coast of Canada and the United States, this is only the third one ever found in the interior Yukon. It was discovered in July but only announced publicly a couple of days ago after months of fact-checking and research.

According to James Mooney, cultural resource specialist with Ecofor Consulting Limited, the archaeological firm hired by Western Copper and Gold Corporation to do the heritage impact assessment, all three of the Yukon Chinese coins were found in an archaeological setting. No later historical materials were found along with them, indicating that the coins were traded into the interior before the Klondike Gold Rush via the First Nations coastal trade with Europeans rather than by Europeans traipsing into the interior themselves....

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A Sketch History of Clothing from the 1700s On | Suite101.com

Styles that were in vogue decades ago are this season’s must-haves. That super skirt is the same style as one your grandmother loved to be seen around town in when she was young. These days’ celebrities, movie and sports stars influence fashion with many of their designs regularly copied and adjusted to make them accessible for high street boutiques and fashion houses.

Fashions have been an expression of wealth and style for hundreds of years. Back in the 18th century a man’s clothing provided a clue as to how successful he was; his outfits reflected his level of birth and achievement. The royal courts of Europe, the aristocracy and the rich shaped styles. At one time fur was considered too good for common people to wear, and a law was passed forbidding women from trimming their hoods with anything other than lambs' wool and rabbit fur.

After the French Revolution, the trend for extremely complicated women’s fashions with panniers, layers of petticoats and heavy overdresses in ornate fabrics gave way to much more simplified clothing. High-waisted white muslin dresses were the order of the day together with lace and frills, ringlets and bonnets.

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'Maharaja' at the Asian Art Museum offers a glimpse inside India's royalty ...

San Francisco Examiner - Dec 31, 1969

Early 20th-century, Western-imitating or influenced fashions that follow are especially striking, including those of the jazz-age princes (educated in Europe or by English tutors in India), who adopted Western dress and culture and became devoted to

Taking space - Beyond Adverse Possession: Seeking Revolution in Oakland's squats

Infoshop News - Dec 31, 1969

The so-called "revolutions" in America, France, etc in the 1700s were simply the gesture of shrugging off the parasitic aristocratic class. The real revolution had begun in the 1500s, when merchants built the foundations of the capitalist practices

Castle Hayne: This Other Eden

Wrightsville Beach Magazine - Dec 31, 1969

Named for Roger Haynes 17-room castle-like plantation home that dominated the area in the 1700s, John Burgwin, builder of the historic Burgwin-Wright house in downtown Wilmington, married Roger Haynes daughter in 1753, and subsequently acquired "Castle

Thank the Industrial Revolution for longer life

Grand Junction Free Press - Dec 31, 1969

The Industrial Revolution, fueled by the philosophical Scottish Enlightenment, gained steam in England in the late 1700s. This was right around the time of the founding of the United States, which, as the freest country in the history of the earth,