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2016-06-03 04:21:11    

http://brilliantmaps.com/celtic-languages/

Map showing the Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century by reddit user targumures

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2014-04-22 07:47:22     How Humans Evolved to Cope with City Crowds

http://io9.com/...evolve-to-cope-with-city-crowds-1564865294

For over a hundred thousand years, humans evolved in sma... a few dozen people. But then, about ten thousand years a... living in cities that were far bigger than any tribe or ... to change to cope with the population overload.

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2014-02-26 10:42:11     Map Kibera | Map Kibera

http://mapkibera.org/

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

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2014-05-18 08:25:07     BBC News - UK becoming 'more local and global'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26885743

Many people in the UK feel a growing connection with oth... neighbourhood and the wider world, but shrinking ties wi...
The figures come from a survey for the BBC's Who Do We T ...
Graphic on connectedness
More people said neighbourhood ties and links w

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2012-09-24 09:19:53     About Us

http://www.deliverthis.com/sample-page/

Designed to connect people with something to deliver…⮮. can deliver it!
Example 1 – A mum is on her way to drop her kids off t ...
Example 2 – A Truckie has an empty backload from Sydne ...

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2014-01-15 14:35:18     The lost history of Carville in San Francisco | www.ktvu.com

http://www.ktvu.com/gallery/entertainment/lost.../gCGz9/#...

SF Public Library
Carville was an impromptu neighborhood in what is now th ...

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2012-09-24 09:35:09     Adopt a Kiosk | BT.com

http://www.payphones.bt.com/adopt_a_ki.../case-studies-3.htm

Taking the phonebook to a whole new level
Villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset got togethe ...
Community book exchange
The iconic and much loved village phonebox was offered t ...

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2014-01-10 16:45:56     Localism is the cornerstone of environmentalism in the 21st century | Sarah Newton | Environment | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...m-cornerstone-environmentalism

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

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2024-09-19 06:55:18     UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ter-scots-in-northern-ireland

The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.
The Council of Europe ...

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