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Tibet Day
Posted Mar 10, 2006
March 10 is Tibet Day, an annual commemoration of the massacre by Chinese troops in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1959. Large scale massacres may be a thing of the past, but people in Tibet still sacrifice their lives in protest of the Chinese occupation. Many of them are young nuns, who engage in public demonstrations in the name of freedom, fully conscious of the dire consequences they face. Lest we forget.
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Happy International Women's Day
Posted Mar 8, 2006
Happy International Women's Day. In lieu of flowers, this:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
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Happy Losar!
Posted Feb 28, 2006
Happy Losar, everyone. Today is the first day of the Tibetan year 2133, Fire Dog year.
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Phenomena
Posted Jan 29, 2006
Nothing happened today that cannot be explained by science... with the aid of puppetry.
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Sad News
Posted Jan 8, 2006
Heinrich Harrer has died. He was 93 years old. No cause of death has been announced, but he is said to have died peacefully in hospital.
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