Jackson Pollack was born Paul Jackson Pollock in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His father was a travelling surveyor and moved around on government jobs which took Pollock around the western United States. For a while he lived in Echo Park in Los Angeles.
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Alaska is the area most rich in salmon in the world. Salmon in not a luxury food in Alaska, it’s an everyday meal and because they catch too many to eat fresh, a lot of the fish are smoked. The season runs from June to August, and a license can be bought from fishing shops.
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Last Friday Chief David William Beautiful Bald Eagle Jr., a long standing representative of South Dakota’s Lakota people, died on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation aged 97.
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On the Oaxacan coast in the south west of the country, surfers, budget travellers , ,gap year kids and alternative lifestyles flock to La Punta to clap the sunset as the sun goes down in the Pacific
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Reputed to be the only place on earth where you can marinate a steak at harvest time just by hanging it outside your house, for 22 years the ‘Garlic Capital of the World’ has played host to the biggest annual garlic celebration in the world.
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