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LA’s Googie architecture

Google is a style of futuristic architecture that emerged in Los Angeles and Southern California in the late 1940s and was popular until the early 1970s, characterized by its bold, dramatic designs inspired by car culture, the Atomic Age, and the Space Age.

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Tokyo Matsuri: A Year of Festivals

Japan is a country of festivals. Known as matsuri in Japanese, these events celebrate or commemorate the changing of the seasons, historical events, and traditional culture, and pretty much every city, town and neighborhood has their own, many of them going back hundreds of years or more.

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