Conquests And Dutch Colonial Rule
In the 19th century, Europe took up the fashion of empire building with a vengeance. Tiny Holland, once Europe's most prosperous trading na......
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Hints Of Sex And Magic
Some, like Barbara Hutton and Charlie Chaplin, were rich and famous and stayed only for a short time. Others, like painter Walter Spies, car......
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A Macabre Massacre
In 1908 the bloody puputan (meaning "ending" in Balinese ) was repeated on a smaller scale in Klungkung. The ghastly scene was one in which,......
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A literary Character
Lange was perhaps the prototype for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim - a man who failed to pick the winning side in an internecine dynastic struggle......
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The \'Green Revolution\'
Recent changes in Balinese agricultural practices have brought about fundamental changes in the relationship of the Balinese to the......
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Rice As The Staff Of Life
Wet-rice cultivation is the key to this agricultural bounty. 'Me greatest concentration of irrigated rice fields is found in southern-ce......
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