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Day: February 3, 2018

American Football For Foreigners

Tomorrow is Super Bowl – when the final two football teams play a championship game, a match which will be watched by 100 million people including 10 Eritreans, 17 Ethiopians, 3 Somalis and 12 Sudanese (the rest will be watching European soccer.) You can eat all the hot dogs and apple pies you like but…

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Eritrea In 9 Minutes

So, your kid has to do a presentation on Eritrea and wants an objective source? Have him or her watch this video and read the accompanying notes and voila: presentation: 0:15 Italy’s attempt to take over parts of Africa “didn’t last that long” and it “didn’t go well”? In Eritrea, it lasted 51 years (1890-1941)…

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