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Bhangra (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ, بھنگڑا Hindi: भांगड़ा) is a form of dance and music which originated in the Punjab region of first Pakistan and India. It was one of the traditional dances of the Punjab region divided between India and Pakistan and sharing some of its origins, with dances in the north-west India, Afghanistan and even the Iran. She became, after the synthesis of the partition of India where the Hindu and Sikh refugees in India, shared their traditional dances from their former homes...Read Full Story

Zarzuela (pronounced [θarˈθwela] in Spain, [sarˈswela] in Latin America), is a another popular Spanish folklor, is a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. The name derives from a Royal hunting lodge, In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, King Philip IV of Spain, Queen Mariana and their court attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, with music by Juan de...Read Full Story

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Remember when not long after 9/11 President George W. Bush said that we should show our enemies that we aren’t intimated by going shopping? Bush’s detractors be damned, his plan worked! Eight years and trillions of dollars in consumer debt later, the American-led recession has turned buying beyond your means into a form of global economic warfare. American impulse shopping, investor mania, and mortgage madness has dealt devastating blows to developing countries and emerging economies from...Read Full Story