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With barely a few days to the climax of Uganda’s action-packed Presidential race, a palpable aura of excitement hangs in the air. The elections are no longer around the corner. It’s the final stretch. The candidates are wrecking budgets, nerves, and burning the midnight oil to sway the undecided voters over to their side before 14th January.
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To a great extent, civilizations have been conditioned to cluster around analysts, pundits and intellectuals for opinions on different matters because, by and large, they’ve been handed the responsibility of maintaining particular perspectives.
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Suddenly, a heavy pounding of drums is quickly followed by a moment of quiet. But that only plunges you further into a daze of suspense. Thankfully, Rebecca comes to your rescue. She musically describes the scene and helps you appreciate the place you’ve been led to.
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After several months of conducting private prayers burrowed in the comfort or, for some, discomfort of their homes, the declaration of a partial re-opening of houses of worship was met with mixed reactions. Addressing the nation on Sunday, 20th September, President Yoweri Museveni finally made the long-awaited announcement.
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Living in a world filled with opportunists, you are never more than ten feet from one. While populaces are grappling with the coronavirus and the difficulties that came in tow, it wasn’t such a hard thing to see that there was always going to be cliques of self-seekers looking to gain unfairly from the crisis.
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Humanity has descended to unprecedented levels of uncertainty about what’s to come following an incredibly destructive three quarters of 2020. No plague is known to have ravaged the modern world to such degree, in a short span, as the coronavirus has.
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Problem is, nearly everyone that passes you looks like the girl in gold and blue. Seems like a wonderful problem to have, but being new to the culture, you’re quite cautious whom and how you ask for directions—what if she screams and people think you’re harassing the girl! The last thing you want (at least not yet!) is to behold the Heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God!
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With his ribs and side already thoroughly tenderized from that massive blow, just a little spice for treatment and Goatie will be cremated on the grill. He will thereafter receive a befitting send off accompanied with a glass of buttery wine.
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Uri Geller, a man of Israeli descent, was one such individual. Magic and psychokinesis, which were the hallmark of his trade, had made him quite a sensation world over, but mostly as an entertainer. His proficiency in working the psychic craft caught the CIA’s attention but, of course, not for entertainment!
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This valley—present day Mexico City— is the place that Cortés and his soldiers faced the most resistance against an oppressive Aztec regime. And it’s especially for his capturing of it, in 1521, that he’s mostly known. Weird and unreal as it will probably sound, the battle that led to the overthrow of the Aztec Empire lasted 3 months!
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