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I’m sure everyone’s heard of the show America’s Best Dance Crew. Last year’s winner, the Jabbawokeez, are now famous across all of North America. They are super talented, no question about that, but sadly the average American doesn’t even know the state of world B-boying. I think most people in North America think B-boy crews in the US = best in the world. That’s totally wrong though… in fact crews in the US is not even close to being in the top. Talk to anyone know who’s what they’re talking about and they’ll say that currently South Koreans are the best b-boys in the world. Followed closely by France and Japan. In fact, in recent years, South Korean crews have been winning a lot of the annual Battle of the Year competitions, whereas US has not even reached the finals.

Here’s the crew that won last year’s BOTY, Extreme Crew. Enjoy!

Google just finished digitizing newspapers that date back to early 1900s, for their news archives search.

For example, here’s an article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for the moon landing. Pretty cool eh?

So Globe & Mail’s archives search goes back to 2000, while Google’s goes back to early 1900s. And I think NY Times recently went back as far as 1800s? — or maybe early 1900s too. Globe and Fail!