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The Top Level Domain (TLD) for this site is comprised of Japanese "kana" characters from the hiragana syllabary. Hiragana were originally called onnade or 'women's hand' and were apparently used mainly by women—men apparently wrote in kanji and katakana. By the 10th century [AD? Gregorian calendar?], hiragana were apparently used by everybody. The word hiragana apparently now translates as "ordinary syllabic script".
"みんな" is romanized (in a syllabary called rōmaji) as follows "mi n na", and is pronounced the same way: "min'na". English translation is "everyone".
Learn more about kana at https://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_hiragana.htm and apps like Duolingo, Mondly Languages, and Write It! Japanese.
Democracy Now: Historic and Prophetic Speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2021/1/18
Opinion: How a little-known incident in 1956 unnerved MLK
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/opinions/martin-luther-king-jr-crisis-of-faith-lowenstein/index.html
Yolanda Renee King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter, speaks at the March on Washington about racial equality, environmental justice and police brutality.
https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6755679333525831680/
LinkedIn presents Brian White, Tahlia Kahn, Manan Arya, Lizbeth B. De La Torre, and about ~1,000 commenters from several different social media platforms for the 02021 January episode of the monthly series “The von Kármán Lecture Series”. The presenters discuss how each of us at home, with nothing more than a flat surface and a piece of paper, can both (1) learn the fascinating Japanese art of Origami (written as “折り紙” and pronounced as “お り が み” in Hiragana or as “Ō Ri Ga Mi” in Romaji) that historical references indicate first began in the year 01680, and also (2) contribute to the ever-growing collection of design ideas for spacecraft that can be folded (folding is absolutely necessary for putting some spacecraft into orbit, in particular, those that have a very large surface area like a solar sail, but a relatively small volume).
This presentation draws on the very old Japanese art of Origami as well as physics, math, engineering, biology, and biomimicry.
Conan the Barbarian is a 01982 American epic sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone. It is based on the character Conan, created by Robert E. Howard. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a young muscular barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger), who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)
A fun afternoon at the beach.
On the early history of Canada and the USA as influenced by France and Britain, in particular on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose version of this historic event should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction? We also meet Baron Georges Savarin de Marestan and Andrew Wolfe-Burroughs, direct descendants of Montcalm and Wolfe, both of whom died in the battle that would give birth to Canada and to the province of Quebec. In French (and some spoken English) with English subtitles.
Directed by Jacques Godbout
https://www.radio.com/podcasts/coronavirus-fact-vs-fiction-35277/teen-scientist-discovers-potential-covid-19-treatment-353793995
Fourteen-year-old Anika Chebrolu is the 2020 winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge. In this episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta hands things over to her to talk about her discovery of a potential therapy for Covid-19.