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unusual facts about slums



Alcohol during and after prohibition

Upon ratification of the amendment, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday said that "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs." (Compare Christianity and alcohol.) Since alcohol was to be banned and since it was seen as the cause of most, if not all, crime, some communities sold their jails.

Anderston Centre

The new Anderston would have its population and slums cleared, and then trisected by these roads into three zones, a Residential Zone on the western side of the motorway, consisting of high-rise deck access public housing blocks, an Industrial Zone on the westernmost extreme bordering with Stobcross and Finnieston, and a Commercial Zone on the eastern side bordering the city centre with Blythswood Hill.

Bahman Cultural Center

Opened in 1991 through the efforts of Gholamhossein Karbaschi and other politicians, the Bahman Cultural Center used to be a slaughterhouse in the slums of southern Tehran.

Bangalore Football Stadium

The 1994 Indian National Games came as though as an opportunity to have the slums vacated, but the then AIFF president Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi made it clear to the state government that unless the slums are cleared, there will no football event.

Beechholme

It was founded in 1879 as a Residential School for poor children from the slums of Kensington and Chelsea and run under a Village system.

Blackwall Buildings

In "Child of the Jago" by Arthur Morrison (1896) mention is made of the fact the slums offered refuge from the police and a place of sanctuary when this was needed.

Brendan Nelson

After the preselection, Nelson worked on an Aboriginal health program for the Cape York Peninsula; and, in June, following his retirement as president of the AMA, went to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on behalf of World Vision to hear about that country's struggles with AIDS—only three months after losing his younger brother to the disease.

Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha

The action happens in cities like Ujjayinī modern Ujjain, Vārānasi modern Varanasi or Benares, Champa and Madurai, in royal palaces and their harems and parks, in courtesans’ parlours and boudoirs, in merchants’ mansions, caravans and ships, in paupers’ hovels and slums, in outcastes’ villages, in ascetics’ hermitages, in cremation grounds, on festive pilgrimages, in gambling dens and in jungles, mountains and deserts.

Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Diagonal Mar i el Front Marítim del Poblenou

The area between the seafront, Sant Adrià de Besòs and the Besòs river was previously made up of slums and poor areas surrounding the neighbourhoods of La Mina, El Maresme and Poblenou.

Himba people

A severe drought killed 90% of their cattle, and many gave up their herds and became refugees in the town of Opuwo living in slums on international relief.

James Myles Hogge

However, after engaging in work in the Edinburgh slums, he changed career again to concentrate on social work and research; first in Edinburgh, then in York with Joseph Rowntree and his son Seebohm.

John Guidetti

After one year with the Impala club, Guidetti joined Mathare United's academy, the MYSA organisation for sports development aid, in the slums of Nairobi.

John Harland Bryant

He is also working with UN Habitat, Nairobi, on the problems of Aids Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

After graduation, in 1878, she headed the first free kindergarten in California, on Silver Street in the slums of San Francisco.

Kota Airport

In 2005, it was reported that Airports Authority of India, which maintains the airport spends Rs. 63 Lakh annually on maintenance, whereas the income is Rs. 6 Lakh, while six acres of the airports property has been encroached upon by slums.

Malay Camp, Kimberley

The Malay Camp in Kimberley, South Africa, with a history similar to Cape Town's District Six, Johannesburg's Sophiatown and Port Elizabeth's South End, was a cosmopolitan suburb originating in the early days of Kimberley's existence but subject to forced 'slums clearance' after the owner of the land (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd) donated the area to the Kimberley Municipality in 1939.

Mario Borrelli

He decides to live in the Neapolitan slums, together with the Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld, at the core of a network of voluntary groups of Christian origin that look at the Vatican Council II as a spiritual and civil source and inspiration.

Mary Beth Fielder

The workshops took place in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa where she taught scriptwriting to fifty youths from the slums with Hot Sun Foundation.

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

MYSA, the centre’s host organization, is located in Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Nottingham Castle

When residents of these slums rioted in 1831, in protest against the Duke of Newcastle's opposition to the Reform Act 1832 they burned down the mansion.

O.S.T.R.

He has also collaborated with many Polish artists, including Michał Urbaniak, Tede, Fokus, DJ Deszczu Strugi, DonGURALesko, Vienio i Pelson, Fu, Pezet, Sistars and Slums Attack.

Once Upon a Time in Bolivia

The film is set against a backdrop of the 2003 Bolivian gas conflict and was shot in the slums of El Alto and on El Altiplano in La Paz, Bolivia on a micro budget, using primarily non-professional actors.

Paul L. Montgomery

He also wrote stories about the difficulties of life in the slums of Ecuador and coverage of clashes between federal soldiers and protesters in the Tlatelolco Massacre that took place on October 2, 1968, in Mexico City, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics and left an estimated 200 to 300 deaths.

Paul Rutherford

He was born in inner-city Liverpool, but as a child during the 1960s moved to the Cantril Farm district (built to replace inner city slums), where future footballer Micky Quinn and future comedian Craig Charles were among his neighbours.

Photography in Denmark

A prominent user of flash, he was able to publish indoor scenes of the slums of New York City, contributing to the implementation of "model tenements".

Piola Vago

Piola Vago is a band that was started in the slums of Villa de Los Andes (Fuerte Apache)

Position Among the Stars

The documentary is the continuation of Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon and follows again the Sjamsuddin family, consisting of three generations, living in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Rich, Famous and in the Slums

Four famous personalities, Lenny Henry, Reggie Yates, Samantha Womack and Angela Rippon, were sent by the BBC to live for several weeks in the slums of Kibera.

Richard Arthur

After again becoming ill working in the slums of London, he returned to Australia and established a practice in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, specialising in eye, ear-nose-and-throat, and dental work.

Rottenrow

Following the Bruce Report in 1945, Townhead was made one of many Comprehensive Development Areas (CDAs), which saw all of the slums cleared and the area rezoned for educational use in preparation for the former Royal College of Science and Technology’s growth into a university.

Scuttlers

The social commentator Alexander Devine attributed the gang culture to lack of parental control, lack of discipline in schools, "base literature" and the monotony of life in Manchester's slums.

Sepet

Quite content with being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong's life takes a sudden turn one day when a Malay schoolgirl, Orked, arrives at his stall while looking for films starring her favorite actor Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Shape of the Moon

The documentary is the continuation of Eye of the Day and follows again the family Sjamsuddin, consisting of three generations living in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Soul Boy

It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya.

State housing

Following a campaign against slums by the newspaper New Zealand Truth, and the realisation that lending for mortgages was not effective to provide housing to replace them, the Finance Minister Walter Nash announced in the 1936 Budget that 5000 state houses would be built.

T.H. Properties

Grammy-nominated recording artist Sarah Kelly wrote the song Still Afraid for the company to bring attention to neglected children who live in the slums of Cairo, Egypt.

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

The station manager, John MacDonald (Wilfred Lucas), takes O'Farrell to Sydney to meet his daughter Edith (Kathleen Key) who is working in the slums.

The Library of St. John the Beheaded

The Library is located in Holborn between the Church of St Giles, London and the Seven Dials district, which was also used as a setting for crime stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as it was one of London’s ancient ‘rookeries’, tightly packed slums of poverty and lawlessness.

Togetherness Supreme

After a contested presidential election (Kenyan presidential election of December 2007), the slums erupt in violence and Kamau's world collapses around him.

Urban redevelopment in Sacramento

By the middle of the 20th century, however, much of the historic downtown had degraded into slums and residents began moving further east into the growing suburbs burgeoning along the American River.

Woman of Breakwater

Babae sa Breakwater is a film about a man Basilio (Kristoffer King), who escapes from provincial Leyte to the slums of Manila with his younger brother Buboy (Alcris Galura).

Yellow Card Man

The story follows Tranh, the once wealthy head of the multi-national "Three Prosperities" trading company, now a refugee suffering from PTSD, who is forced to eke out a living in the slums of a future Bangkok.

Yoo Seung-ho

Also, in 2010, he and IU sang a duet together called "Believe In Love" for a popular Korean charity show, Love Request, where he had gone to the slums of India and witnessed their living conditions.


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