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• Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation ...
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• 1982: Suriname’s “December murders”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 423
  This was the date in 1982 of the “December murders” ( “Decembermoorden” ), when 15 opponents of Suriname’s military dictatorship were shot at Fort Zeelandia. (The 15 people shot each have an entry on the Dutch Wikipedia, accessible through its Decembermoorden entry .) Though the killings weren’t ...
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• News Round-Up

  
  Memory in Latin America — Authority: 126
  Peru: Violence Targets Anti-Mining Activists (Upside Down World) Six to face trial in Chile ex-president murder case (Reuters) Historic first sentence against former member of Guatemalan military for crime of forced disappearance (Guatemala Solidarity Network) Suriname Dictators Trial Resumes with New ...
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• Worldwide Hotel Deals

  
  Vacation Visitor Info Travel Deals — Authority: 143
  You will not find a better place to get a better hotel deal than right here! If you want to travel there, it has a hotel! If it has a hotel you will find the best deal here! You will get the best lodging price for rooms in Afghanistan , Albania , Algeria , American Samoa , Andorra , Angola , Anguilla , ...
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• Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a ...
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• Suriname: Seamlessness

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  “There is a way that Caribbean music or musical interests create a seamlessness between locations”: Blogging at Paramaribo SPAN , Chris Cozier ruminates on seamless spaces created by sound.
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• Suriname

  
  My World of Postcards — Authority: 127
  hmm...hmmm hmmm hmm...hm hm....and i could literally go humming all day long....though i think it would be smarter and more effective if i get down to write something...not in the right-est mood for it, but then again...ive already been absent way too often...and i dont have the heart to keep some great cards in the ...
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• November 25 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 548
  On November 25: 1491 The siege of Granada , the last Moorish stronghold in Spain , began. 1343 A tsunami , caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea , devastated Naples   and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi , among other places. 1703 The Great Storm of 1703 , the greatest windstorm ever ...
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• Suriname Celebrates its Independence

  
  Holidays Around The World - Holidays Around The World — Authority: 429
  Independence Day: November 25, 2009Independence Day is a public holiday in Suriname.Suriname celebrates Independence Day on November 25, remembering the day in 1975 when Suriname was granted full independence from the Netherlands.History of Independence Day in SurinameBy the 17th century, Suriname was mainly occupied ...
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• Will Amazon’s Global Kindle Work in YOUR Country?

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 106
  Amazons Global Kindle Reader I heard that Amazon now has a global version of Kindle. I was disappointed to find this morning that the new version still will not work in my country. Since I’ve wanted one for some time, but have been waiting until they got a version that would work in my country, I checked out ...
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• President of Suriname visits WMF partnered museum exhibit

  
  Durova — Authority: 116
  Good news from The Netherlands.  President Ronald Venetiaan of Suriname has visited the Tropenmuseum exhibit about the cultural history of Suriname.  First Lady Lisbeth Venetiaan saw the exhibit last Saturday and was so impressed that she returned with her husband the next day.  The Suriname exhibit was developed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Suriname: Welcome to the Jungle

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  For Paramaribo SPAN , Christopher Cozier visits artist Daniel Djojoatmo, whose work “discuss[es] the predicament of certain narratives of development which are, at their inception, ill-fated and at the disposal of the jungle.”
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• Organization of American States And the U.S. Government Announce Renewed Efforts to Fight Illegal Drugs

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 449
  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of the United States have announced renewed efforts to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in the hemisphere and to provide treatment to persons with drug addictions, two subjects that are expected to dominate next week’s Forty-Sixth Regular Session of the ...
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• Suriname

  
  Lelydorp & Netherlands — Authority: 126
  
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• Jews in The New World – Part Four

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  This is a random look at various Jewish communities in the New World United States of America Until about 1830 Charleston, South Carolina had more Jews than anywhere else in North America. Most of these were Sephardic Jews who arrived before the Revolutionary War. Large scale Jewish immigration to America did not ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Countries, 2010

  
  The Travel Blog by TravelPod — Authority: 416
  very year, Lonely Planet tries to predict which countries will be the hot places to travel in the upcoming year. I took a minute to see what TravelPod bloggers thought about these countries in 2009. Personally, I take issue with making a list like this. Who’s to say that New Zealand is “cooler” this year than ...
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• Nice Visit Today.

  
  Access denied-living with multiple sclerosis — Authority: 128
  Great visit from our good friend Marianne this afternoon, she bought me a delicious prawn filled crispy roll from Surima Suriname Takeaway. They never seem to believe her when she tells them to put alot of hot pepper sauce on the sandwich; luckily we have pepper sauce here. Since I posted about LDN yesterday I have ...
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• How rainforest shamans treat disease

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new ...
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• Mixed Plate: Ono Kine Hawaii - Green Acres (pt 1)

  
  Wasabi Prime — Authority: 414
  Aloha! Mr. Wasabi/Brock and I took some time to fly off to the tropics of the 50th state for a cousins wedding, some family time and some much-needed rest. While I was not born in Hawaii, the entire Wasabi Prime clan on both sides are all Islanders, having been born on and lived across the islands of Oahu, Maui, and ...
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• All Souls Day - “May the Dead Rest in Peace”

  
  Holidays Around The World - Holidays Around The World — Authority: 429
  All Souls Day: November 2, 2009All Souls Day is celebrated in Mexica, USA, Latin America, South America and Canada.All Souls Day is a day celebrated in Mexico, Latin America, South America El Día de los Muertos. The holiday is dedicated for the living persons to visit their dead relatives in their graves and to honor ...
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