María Del Pilar Belmonte

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Who says princesses can’t be socially awkward too? Mia Thermopolis begs to differ! Give this a rewatch if only for that iconic makeover scene alone. “You broke my glasses!!” never gets old.

She and Mark acquire many specimens from the Tucson Gem and Mineral show in Arizona, the biggest of its kind in the world. "Some pieces come with certification, authenticating their provenance," says Eloise. "Over time, you learn to distinguish the authentic from the man-made. Every year, new fossils and veins of crystals are discovered."

For many collectors, there is no monetary value to the objects they find. They might have caught sight of a fascinating leaf, stone or, more serendipitously, a fossil while strolling in a park or on a beach, then chosen to take it home to add to a burgeoning collection of mementoes. To some, such spaces might appear eccentric and bizarre, but to these homeowners they offer the freedom to explore and pursue their personal obsessions with abandon.

As important as these modes of worship are, one can't help but feel that men have endowed female deities with powers beyond their human counterparts to illustrate why female rule on Earth would be disastrous. While the Egyptian Sekhmet was upheld for her life-giving potential, like Shri-Lakshmi and Demeter, she could also deliver destruction. It was said that she was sent to plunder the Earth after mortals rebelled against her father, the sun god, Ra. Sekhmet did as she was told but got carried away. Ra was so ashamed by her bloodlust that he recalled her. Sekhmet would not give up. The only way Ra could stop her in her tracks was by disguising alcohol as blood so that she would become too inebriated to continue.

Still today, women in power are often as much feared as they are revered or, at least, are presented as threatening in their success and their ability to smash glass ceilings. If the examples of the past reveal anything, it is that female figures of authority are always at the ready to rise up and defy expectation. They are brilliant for being everything people assume they are not.

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A century ago, Italian immigrants in Argentina's capital gave pizza an unusual new topping: a chickpea pancake known as "fainá".
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At a bustling counter inside Güerrín, a central Buenos Aires pizzeria, a young server in a red-and-white uniform dished out slices. Laid out before him was an abundance of thick, golden pizzas, their toppings a bright blend of green olives, red peppers and crispy melted cheese. The queue reached almost to the door, as he cut the portions with movements as lean and efficient as a juggler, the wedges disappearing in minutes.

Every so often, he turned to a stack of what look like crumbly pieces of pizza base and flicked a portion onto a slice as he served it. The result looked like a pizza sandwich, the mozzarella melting slowly out from between the layers. This extra topping isn't actually from pizza at all but a thick, baked chickpea pancake called fainá.

Made from just chickpea flour, water, oil, salt and pepper, fainá is not complicated. At one of the restaurant's enormous ovens, I watched as a chef whisked the ingredients into a dribbly batter, poured it into a flat, round metal pan and carefully pushed it into the oven on a long, metal peel. Over the next five minutes or so, large bubbles pulsated on the surface. In the back corner, a blazing log fire heated the oven to almost 400C. The whole kitchen was sweltering and the aroma of baking suffused the air. When the fainá came out of the oven, it was golden-yellow with dark patches, like a harvest Moon. It would serve 20 to 30 people.
It's really classic for porteños, people from Buenos Aires
At Güerrín, they go through 600-700 portions of fainá a day, according to Mauricio Nunes Aleixo, the restaurant's night shift manager. "It's really classic for porteños, people from Buenos Aires," he said. "It's different for people from the other provinces; sometimes they don't even know what it is." (Fainá is also eaten with pizza in Uruguay, which is just across the River Plate from Buenos Aires and has close cultural ties to the city.)

Pratt agreed. "When you live somewhere like this you have to help each other. It's not out of the ordinary to drive half an hour to take petrol to someone who has run out on the Forgotten World Highway. It's so remote, and because of that you need to care for others – as well as be resourceful and resilient. There's no doctor, dentist, rubbish collections; we're an hour from the nearest town. We are strong Taranaki people and it's not really surprising we became a republic; we were already kind of independent."

This is a sentiment echoed by the current mayor of Stratford. "The declaration of independence was initially a protest and a bit of a middle finger to authorities," said Neil Volzke. "But it has grown way beyond that now. It really shows the true Kiwi spirit of innovation and independent thinking still exists, and that small places like Whangamōmona have a really strong sense of community. I think mocking the authorities comes as a bonus – you've got to love it!"

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The night features a chain of events that ends dramatically in vomiting and a family death, but let us focus for a moment longer on Aroon's dress. It belongs to a vast, shadowy wardrobe of fictional garments that have betrayed their owners. For every literary scene highlighting the transformative power of fashion – think Cinderella's dress and glass slippers, or Shakespeare's many gender swaps and disguises – there is another that focuses on the subtler, more self-conscious trials of an outfit that makes the wearer feel uncomfortable and ashamed. Most of these scenes take place in public settings, and a great number of them at parties.
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According to Human Rights Watch, 80% of the homes in Peja were damaged or destroyed during the Kosovo War, Mula’s among them. But despite many hardships, Mula and her family persevered. And when Mula’s father returned home in 2005, it was his dying wish that Mula attend university.

The highest expressions of the Roman Empire's built environment confront modern visitors with an "engineering approach", said Renato Perucchio, a mechanical engineer at the University of Rochester in New York. "The Romans performed sophisticated analyses that led them to these designs, which were then expressed through an extremely careful construction process."

Interestingly, the females prefer the smaller males over their beefy counterparts, according to McAnulty, indicating they're selecting brains over brawn. "Studies have even shown that when the females go to lay their eggs, they will give a larger proportion of fatherhood to those sneaky males," she said. "So, when we ask ourselves how those darn cephalopods got so smart? Well, they're sexually selecting for it!"

Its switchbacks were slick with moisture from the mist, vegetation slowly creeping up the cracks in the pavement. A large, looming silhouette emerged from the fog – a lone cow wandering along the road in search of better pasture.

As for the cuttlefish themselves, we can only hope they continue their ostentatious, sexy shenanigans, proving that life can be as colourful and wild as you want it to be.