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3 days ago

Aloe vera is blooming now. Here's what to know about its varieties

Aloe vera traveled from the Arabian Peninsula to Europe via Arab traders, then to the Americas with Columbus, becoming naturalized in the Caribbean where it was valued for its healing properties.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara review into Tibet's Forbidden Kingdom'

In The Last of Earth, she points her writerly compass towards the mountains of mid-19th-century Tibet a region then closed off to European imperialists to meditate on the chequered history of colonial exploration, cartography and the impermanence of human existence. It's in the nature of white men to believe they own the world, that no door should be shut to them.
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