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25 juin 2015

First Moon of Ramadan

Seen from Mayotte, the moon looks like a smile. This is the first moon of Ramadan this year. Ramadan, or a period of roughly one month when Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise and sunset, but gorge themselves on fried food and sugary treats at...

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18 mai 2015

Mamoudzou By Night

I was sent on an espionage mission the other day. A friend of mine suspected his wife of cheating on him, and had asked me to go to a Senegalese party which she was planning to attend in order to check if the new boyfriend was there. When I got there,...

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17 juin 2013

Starry Skies

On the 1st of June, the Mayotte Astronomy club organised its annual Sun and Star Party. They invited the local schools to make and show models and exhibitions about space, they hung up big colourful balls, they had posters up about light pollution or...

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Tags: mayotte, sun, hemisphere, southern, star, australis, borealis, centaur, chart, constellation, corona, crux, mtsangabeach, night, saturn, scorpius

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