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...Europe, where collectors prize such items as the 16th century Benin bronze castings whose technical finesse rivals works produced by Europeans of the same era. Among the most sought-after items are figurines from Kawu, with their distinctive triangular eyes and abstracted features, remnants of the Nok culture that flourished in central Nigeria from...
...prepare traditional meals. Upstairs, Senegalese dealer Moussa Cissokho displays his wares. The presentation is modest--the figurines are still caked with soil, and the small space is crammed with crates--but the price is right. For a figure about a foot high that could, if it is a genuine Nok, command tens of thousands of dollars at a gallery, he quotes a bargain price of $3,000. What you might call a steal...
...Nok Mitrakit, 36, music video producer 1.Narai???2.The Pizza Company???3.Pizza Hut "Pizza Hut is too salty...
...allow eight goals and win, not even in Nok Hockey. The ridiculous defensive performance--by both teams--overshadowed the fine work of Harvard's Dave Burke and Jim Turner and Northeastern's Randy Bucyk up front, and even Husky netminder George Demetroulakas. Why skate hard when you can fire away and the puck will go in eventually...
...Nok Tha team also discovered old pottery fragments imprinted with rice husk markings. The shards indicate that the inhabitants of the region were cultivating rice even earlier than 3500 B.C.-long before it was grown in either India or China. "The Chinese," says Solheim. "have felt superior to the peoples beyond their borders. Now they will have to accept the fact that many of the peoples of Southeast Asia had a higher culture from which the Chinese borrowed for the foundations of their later civilization...