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10 Odd things that makes you smart

10 Odd things that makes you smart

Intelligence is one of those hard-to-define qualities, which fall into the category of ‘things you know when you see.’ Fortunately, many attempts have been made to quantify intelligence, and we’ve begun to discover patterns, suggesting links between intelligence and certain characteristics. Here I will explain some of the surprising characteristics which have been found to […]

App Measures Which Friends Are Stressing You Out And Blocks Them

App Measures Which Friends Are Stressing You Out And Blocks Them

A new app called “pplkpr” is designed to help you recognize unhealthy relationships in your life.   By measuring your emotions via a heart-rate monitor, the app figures out which friends stress you out more often than they make you happy. Then it manages your social life so you don’t hang out with them anymore. […]

Model: Michelene Auguste

Model: Michelene Auguste

Nationality: (West Indies/Caribbean) Trinidadian Ethnicity: African descent   “In 2005 Michelene began her initial fashion model training at Coco Velvet International Model Training Academy in Matura, Trinidad; her training continued at the CVI 2008 Workshop in Port-of-Spain.     While attending the workshop she was scouted by a representative of IMG Model Management New York […]

Brazilian Model: Camila Costa

Brazilian Model: Camila Costa

She speaks Brazilian Portuguese, French and English.   The first European immigrants to Brazil were of Iberian origin, primarily Portuguese. Some Portuguese settlers were of Jewish or Moorish origin but most of them had converted to Christianity. There were also some Dutch immigrants to the Northeast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Read More > countrystudies.us/brazil […]

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You wouldn’t believe it if you looked on the runway, at an ad campaign, or heck…anywhere, but people of color are buying more luxury goods than ever. Nielsen just released its consumer report on black Americans, and the market research firm’s findings were, to say the very least, quite eye-opening. With black buying power expected […]

Brazilian Model: Ellen Rosa

Brazilian Model: Ellen Rosa

Nationality: Brazilian Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire Western Hemisphere. Os melhores momentos do SPFW 2016 (Edições Inverno e Verão) Brazil has the world’s second biggest black population after Nigeria, Africa. https://youtu.be/HoLUMURpNwM –Thank you! This Brazilian girl wonder was the talk of the town since her debut […]

17,000 year old Nomoli Figurines found in Sierra Leone, West Africa

17,000 year old Nomoli Figurines found in Sierra Leone, West Africa

At 17,000 years, this unusual Nomoli figure is also the oldest. A small metal ball was hidden in a hollow space inside it. An analysis showed that it is made from chrome and steel. However, the metal ball was already in the figure when it was found.    How did it get there? And much […]

Sky Blue Stone of Sierra Leone, Africa

Sky Blue Stone of Sierra Leone, Africa

The Controversy around this rock called the Sky stone (12000 BC) ~ was found In 1990, an odd type of blue stone, was discovered by geologist and archaeologist, Angelo Pitoni, in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He sent the mysterious stone to be investigated at several laboratories around the world.  The tests were carried out in laboratories […]

Carved female image on a mountain in Guinea, West Africa

Carved female image on a mountain in Guinea, West Africa

Some say it’s artificial and others think it’s a natural formation. Judge for your self. I have seen websites and blogs on this subject from Russia, Asia and Latin America analyzing “The Lady Of Mali”. This is now a current tourist destination or for self proclaimed Indiana Jones types looking for adventure and the discovery of […]

The Science Guy: Bill Nye “There is no such thing as race”

The Science Guy: Bill Nye “There is no such thing as race”

 William Sanford “Bill” Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer,scientist, and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children’s science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science […]

The French Government bans ultra thin models

The French Government bans ultra thin models

France’s lower house of parliament on Friday (April 3) passed a measure banning excessively thin fashion models and exposing modelling agencies and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail. https://youtu.be/D3H3VghyGeI The controversial bill was widely debated in the lower house, with dissenters saying it would make it give foreign models […]

Model: Chantal Kammermann

Model: Chantal Kammermann

Nationality: Swiss Ethnicity: Swiss German & Guinean, African. Place of Birth: Lucerne, Switzerland. She speaks German, French and English.     Guinea, in West Africa on the Atlantic, is also bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Slightly smaller than Oregon, the country consists of a coastal plain, a mountainous region, a […]

Professor of African Archaeology: Kevin C. MacDonald

Professor of African Archaeology: Kevin C. MacDonald

Kevin C. MacDonald is Professor of African Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology where he has taught since completing his PhD at Cambridge in 1994. He has worked in Mali for more than twenty years on field projects ranging from the Late Stone Age to the historic era, principally in the Gourma, Méma, Haute […]

The Dogon Tribe from Mali, Africa

The Dogon Tribe from Mali, Africa

The Dogon people are an ethnic group in Mali, West Africa, reported by some researchers to have traditional astronomical knowledge about Sirius that would normally be considered impossible without the use of telescopes. According to Marcel Griaule‘s books Conversations with Ogotemmêli and The Pale Fox they knew about the fifty-year orbital period of Sirius and […]

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The name Nubian (nub) actually means gold Ark of the Covenant?Ancient Ruins Of Nubia South African Ruins Ancient Hairstyles Negus is an Amharic word for KingLalibela Rock-Cut Churches Dressing Well Is A Form Of Good Manners –Tom Ford Just a seeker after the truth Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to […]

Model: Raven Lyn Corneil

Model: Raven Lyn Corneil

Nationality: (Minneapolis, MN) American Ethnicity: Caucasian, Latin & African Descent.   MODEL TYPE: Glamour Model INFLUENCE CATEGORIES: Hair, Fashion, Cosmetics, Fitness                             Travel   Enjoying Life Brunch Going on castings http://www.lamodels.com/mobile/portfolio.php?ref=M_1_b0763e_24143 One of her 1st test-shoot at 15 years old below. Raven Lyn […]

Model: Maria Durruthy

Model: Maria Durruthy

Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: (Bi-racial) Russian, Swedish and Afro-Cuban. Fluent in 4 languages: Russian, Swedish, English and Spanish. Born in Cuba, raised in Moldova and Sweden. Beauty comes in all shades. We would like to see more models like her. Such a beauty should be known. https://vimeo.com/82581826 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t50.2886-16/11213123_1820112421547861_894727783_n.mp4 https://youtu.be/_Hi27FLPudA?t=18s https://youtu.be/_y6oZDz7v1I?t=9s https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t50.2886-16/11818800_932269060152410_1401757651_n.mp4 https://youtu.be/jwBDQok8MF8 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t50.2886-16/11846926_1603339363266793_340329192_n.mp4   https://youtu.be/jbKDMjIGMwg Boots    […]

Model & Actress: Isis Samassa Betaudier

Model & Actress: Isis Samassa Betaudier

Nationality: British Ethnicity: English, Trinidadian, Spanish and French. She speaks 3 languages fluently -French, Spanish and English. She trained at Italia Conti and then after was accepted at the age of 16 into Studio Centre. General Dance Skills: Ballet, Bellydance, Contemporary, Jazz, Latin American.     https://vimeo.com/121405559         Rehearsing for a casting in Paris, France. […]