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Using the World Bank/JMP “safely managed drinking water” metric, this guide highlights easy-refill destinations like Iceland, Denmark, and Finland, plus places where caution is smarter, including ...

We tell stories to make sense of our world. Across time and across cultures, folk and fairy tales were passed down orally to impart moral and life lessons. They could include magic and superstition; ...

Last week, in the days leading up to my father’s funeral, I played Susana Baca’s album Espiritu Vivo (Living Spirit). The beat of the cajon, the wooden box that speaks Afro-Peruvian rhythms, might ...

The Redwood City Public Library is inviting all for a festive celebration of Peruvian culture and folklore this Saturday at the Redwood Shores Branch Library as one of multiple events planned ...

A Latin American cuisine filled with seafood, fusion flavors and vibrant spices is flourishing in San Luis Obispo. Three Peruvian restaurants have set up shop in a half mile stretch of Higuera Street ...

The 6,000 listeners in Hollywood Bowl could hardly believe their ears. For the first few bars of a Peruvian folk chant called High Andes, the full-figured Peruvian girl onstage rumbled roundly at the ...

Ask most classical music fans to name the greatest composers and you’ll probably hear a list dominated by Europeans. Yet Latin American composers soon began weaving their own voices into the classical ...

The species is given Endangered status in Peru and faces threats including infrastructure collisions, illegal use in folklore events, and wildlife trafficking, researchers said. Photo by David ...