IRAQI METAL BAND ACRASSICAUDA RESETTLED TO AMERICA (Elite TV)
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Nearly three years after fleeing Iraq and becoming a band on the run, all four members of Acrassicauda, one of Iraq’s first heavy metal bands, have been successfully resettled to the United States and are currently residing in New Jersey.
China’s molton metal fireworks (Times of Malta)
China’s Hebei Province celebrates the traditional Lantern Festival with splashed molten metal. The Chinese Lantern Festival in Hebei Province features the hurling of burning hot molten iron, an ancient and highly dangerous tradition started by blacksmiths too poor to afford fireworks.
NYC art project invites conversation about Iraq (AP via Yahoo! News)
The rusty, crumpled, metal shell sits in a large room, thousands of miles from a popular Iraqi book market where the car was destroyed in a suicide bomb attack that killed 38 people in 2007.
