- How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | History | Smithsonian Magazine
The breakthrough came when Koroma recognized a word from the song as a Mende dialect from southern Sierra Leone. In 1990, the researchers traveled around the country’s Pujehun District, playing the song for villagers in hopes of finding someone who recognized the words. Schmidt says she and her colleagues acknowledged that this was a “remote possibility,” but after many weeks, they found a small village, Senehun Ngola, and a woman named Baindu Jabati who astonished them by singing a nearly identical version of the song. - Michael Andersen on X: “Considerably less hilarious, but back when I started applying for jobs I added UTM tracking to my resume, updated with custom tracking for each potential employer so I could know who actually checked out the links. The fact that no
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The papers had for a while been terrifying readers with tales of the mayhem wreaked by crosswords across the Atlantic. “CROSS-WORD PUZZLES. AN ENSLAVED AMERICA”, howls the Tamworth Herald in 1924. The crossword, the piece explains, “has grown from the pastime of a few ingenious idlers into a national institution: a menace because it is making devastating inroads on the working hours of every rank of society.”Everywhere, at any hour of the day, people can be seen quite shamelessly poring over the checker-board diagrams, cudgelling their brains for a four-letter word meaning “molten rock” or a six-letter word meaning “idler,” or what not: in trains and trams, or omnibuses, in subways, in private offices and counting-rooms, in factories and homes, and even – although as yet rarely – with hymnals for camouflage, in church.
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