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When was kindergarten started?

The first kindergarten was started by German educator Friedrich Froebel in 1837 in Blankenburg, Prussia. Froebel chose the German term kindergarten because he intended children in his school to grow as freely as flowers in a garden. Froebel based his educational philosophy on a belief in the innate creativity of children. His kindergarten stressed that children should spend part of …

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What is the Cuban Wushu?

The term Wushu consists of two Chinese characters: wu meaning martial or military and shu meaning skill or method. Together, it translates as martial art. Bruce Lee films brought the first images of kung fu to Cuba. Since then, martial art fans in Cuba started discovering the harmonic, philosophical and therapeutic bases of what is known as Wushu today -a …

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What is the choking game?

The choking game – also known as airplaning, America dream game, black out game, breath play, breathing the zoo – is not technically a game but a schoolyard activity which involves deliberately inducing unconsciousness or near-unconsciousness by restricting the supply of oxygenated blood to the brain. Mostly teenagers and adults indulge in this game. The activity has been responsible for …

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What is Paleo movement or Paleolibertarianism?

Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within American libertarianism associated with the late economist Murray Rothbard, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It is based on a combination of radical libertarianism in politics and cultural conservatism in social thought and opposes a libertarianism which advocates “freedom from bourgeois morality, and social authority.” Austrian economics, anti-federalism, opposition to war, Misesian libertarianism, …

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