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18 hours ago · The existence of the Ryukyuan people challenges the notion of ethnic homogeneity in post-WWII Japan. After the demise of the multi-ethnic Empire of Japan in 1945, successive governments had forged a single Japanese identity by advocating monoculturalism and denying the existence of ethnic minority groups. [58]
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18 hours ago · Navy: identical to the Army flag, but with the lower 40% has three blue and two white horizontal stripes of equal width. Air Force: identical to the Army flag, but with the lower 40% coloured air force blue. Rocket Forces: identical to the Army flag, but with the lower 40% being a gold stripe.
18 hours ago · Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.
18 hours ago · Frank Ocean [2] (born Christopher Edwin Breaux; October 28, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. His early works are credited by some music critics for pioneering the alternative R&B genre. [3] [4] Ocean has won two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist among other accolades, and his two studio albums ...
18 hours ago · The story of the Royal Navy frigate, HMS Pandora, sent to the Pacific in 1790 to capture Fletcher Christian and his band of HMS Bounty mutineers. Sir David Attenborough narrates the discovery of the largely intact wreck on the outer Barrier Reef and its recovery by the Queensland Museum . Produced by Living Pictures directed by David Flatman
18 hours ago · Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke 's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, [1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882) [2] and Freaky Friday (1972) [3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as ...
18 hours ago · 1979. 2 January – BBC2 airs the first episode of Michael Wood 's documentary history series, In Search of the Dark Ages. [40] June – BBC2 launches the world's first computer-generated ident, the BBC Two 'Computer Generated 2'. [41] 25 October – The final episode of the comedy series Fawlty Towers airs on BBC2.
