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Young Costa Rican Travels to Other Countries in a Minivan
Emmanuel Solórzano is a 29-year-old Alajuelan who quit his job comforts and modified a car -more than a year ago- so that he could live and travel in it. In South America, the dream of this engineer and photographer...
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The Life of León Fernández Bonilla, Also Known as "Don León"
León Fernández Bonilla (born in Alajuela, on February 17th, 1840 – died on January 9th, 1887) was a Costa Rican historian, lawyer, and diplomat. He is considered the ‘father’ of historiography in Costa Rica.Director and Professor (ad honorem) of...
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The Band Director’s Lessons About Life (3)
(This week is the third installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee finishes the story about his own...
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Coffee Enters the Set of Costa Rica’s National Symbols
Unanimously, 42 deputies of the Assembly of Costa Rica approved in the 2nd debate, last Monday, a bill that declares it as a new national symbol; coffee -also known as "the golden grain"- will join the set of national...
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Schools in the United States Seek Costa Rican Teachers
If you are a teacher and are looking for a new professional opportunity at this beginning of the year, this information may interest you
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The Band Director’s Lessons About Life (2)
(This week is the second installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee explains a bit about his own...
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Ayahuasca
Our cars bouncing over crater size potholes we travel to the lush Resonance (https://www.ResonanceCR.com/) property on the Guanacaste coast of Costa Rica. Nine people, mostly strangers, embark on a life-altering journey starting in the city of San José. Our...
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Costa Rica's Painted Oxcarts: A Cherished Tradition Rolls On
This week the town of Venice, known as the Cradle of the Costa Rican Boyero, in the Canton of San Carlos, Province of Alajuela began its traditional week of the Boyero. This event takes place from the 20th to...
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Don Carlos Monge Alfaro: Costa Rica's Renaissance Man
Carlos Monge Alfaro (Cartago, May 22, 1909 - San José, April 8, 1979) was an educator, writer, essayist, historian, geographer, politician, and Costa Rican philosopher
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Doña Carmen Granados Soto: The Nacional Soul Of Costa Rica
Known to all Costa Ricans as the "Alma Nacional” (National Soul), the cheerful, always flirtatious, deeply Costa Rican and irreplaceable Doña Carmen Granados Soto
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Costa Rica Will Learn the Secrets of Alternative Healing Through Medicinal Plants
Ancestral Culture, is the event of the year in Costa Rica, which will take place this Saturday 15 and...