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52 books / 52 weeks – Michael Collins & The Troubles
Review – Michael Collins & The Troubles, by Ulick O’Connor A Keeper? Probably Well, I know a LOT more about the Irish revolution than I did a week ago. Admittedly, what I knew a week ago was almost...
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Point of view
What you see depends on where you’re standing. But you knew that, right? I’m fascinated – like many other people – by the Heian period, a thousand years ago in Japan, partly because it’s so strange, so...
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Where are the snows of yesteryear?
Measuring one of the big snows in February 2010 Well…taking that question literally, they’ve melted, thank goodness, all 60 or 70 inches of them. They’ve soaked into the aquifer, or drained into the...
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Weekly photo challenge: Together
The theme this time for the Weekly Photo Challenge is “Together”. Here’s what I have - The living and the dead… The past and the present… Together at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Photos...
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A twofer for Third Sentence Thursday
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett p. 113: “It’d burn its own lips off!” Captain Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch is a sensible man (even if he does tend to dive headfirst into the nearest...
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Third Sentence Thursday again: How would YOU invent squash?
After the Ice by Steven Mithen p. 285: “Not only do their social lives seem to have been based more around sharing than competition, but it seems unlikely that a rival would have been impressed, let...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement
This week’s Photo Challenge theme is “movement”. This is a mill wheel at Sturbridge Village, Connecticut – a reconstructed early nineteenth century town. The wheel is turning at a pretty brisk speed,...
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Weekly photo challenge: Dreaming
This week, the topic for the Weekly Photo Challenge is dreaming. I dream about various things – but this is the one that caught my attention today. Once, people lived here in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico....
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Hooray for the Taxman
Not really writing yet – but somebody was counting sheep and cows Today is April 15 – and here in the U.S., that means we all have to get our income tax filed by midnight. Yes, it’s tax day – a day all...
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Weekly photo challenge: Change
Sometimes change is hard to see, and even harder to illustrate. But I finally remembered this photo - This Pompeiian gentleman is much too responsible and serious to acknowledge the apparition staring...
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Travel theme: Big
This week, Ailsa’s theme is “big” – don’t miss her pictures of impressively big things! I went in a more metaphorical direction, though… Galileo. A towering figure in the history of science. And this...
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