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Last login: 3 months agoLaGriotte: LaGriotte is a married woman from The African Americas And, Italy.; Likes 3,729 pages, 5 videos, 52 photos • 179 fans • Received 21 reviews; Member since Aug 02, 2004

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The Trial of Baron Christoph von Graffenried and Surveyor General John Lawson at…: Apr 11, 1:08am 1 review native-americans, switzerland, colonialism, british-north-america
http://www.coastalcarolinaindians.com/research/lawson_graffenried_trial.htm; Detailed history of Euro invasion of North Carolina Coastal Indians, including the capture of Swiss Baron von Graffenreid by Native Americans.

Digital Kiosk: Apr 9, 4:23pm 1 review news, reading, international-news-views
http://digitalkiosk.mdlf.org:8080/kiosk/; Hard to find international publications online.

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 9, 1:47pm 1 review sports, horses, safety, equestrian, riding
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/sports/othersports/09equestrian.html?ex=120...; Wow. I'll ride on the equivalent of the baby slope.

Allium Sativum Health Benefits: Apr 6, 4:34pm 2 reviews health, raw-food, garlic, food-prep, allium
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/allium-sativum-heal...; Garlic is native to AFRICA and CENTRAL ASIA. For maximum health benefits, slice raw garlic and let it stand 10 minutes before using or cooking.

Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - LAfrique répond à Sarkozy: Apr 6, 11:15am 1 review politics, africa, europe, americas, haiti
http://www.lenouvelliste.com/article.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=55382; Article in French about a new book of essays responding to the Hungarian-background French president's deeply insulting July 2007 speech to Africans which he made in Dakar. The gist of his remarks was that "Africa is still outside history." Whaa???

Dept. des langues et cultures / Languages and cultures dept.: Apr 6, 7:07am 1 review culture, french, languages, international-studies
http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~benenson/lgv/; Bilingual French-English site for language studies.

Allocution Ã lUniversitÃ© de Dakar - PrÃ©sidence de la RÃ©publique: Apr 5, 6:54pm 1 review history, politics, africa, france, sarkozy
http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/elysee.fr/francais/interventions/2007/juillet/all...; A huge thumbs-down for Nicolas Sarkozy's condescending "Africa is still 'outside history'" speech - about African people, uttered to their faces but as though they really weren't there, at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. Un discours absolument chocquant. Some of us didn't know it was possible for some Europeans to still have it in themselves to deliver comments like these!

http://www.xalima.com/Quand-Sarkozy-insulte-l-Afrique-a,5163: Apr 5, 3:32pm 1 review africa, senegal, sarkozy, dakar, afrodescendants
http://www.xalima.com/Quand-Sarkozy-insulte-l-Afrique-a,5163; Katy Cisse Wone's response to French prez Nicolas Sarkozy's insulting "Africa Still Outside History" speech delivered to Africans in Senegal, 26 July 2007.

Mar 20, 7:12am: Wow! Economics: Redefining Progress using the GPI instead of GDP (GPI = Genuine Progress Indicator). "One of the architects of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Simon Küznets, cautioned against using the GDP as a measure of the welfare of a nation. Some 32 years after his lament, Redefining Progress, an economic research think tank developed the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). For the first time, a holistic measure of the welfare of a nation had been constructed."- from fiscallygreen.ca