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Travelin' Tuesday: Crete
Khania (or Chania), on the north shore near the western end of Crete, is the second-largest city on the island. It was ruled by Venice from 1252 to 1645 (less a couple of decades in the 16th century...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Hawaii
Marine Corps Base Hawaii is located near Kāneʻohe and Kailua, on the windward side of Oʻahu. In 1941 it was Naval Air Station Kaneohe; Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn was awarded the Medal of...
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ZUI this article from CNN:An Army veteran credited with trying to save the lives of fellow soldiers during a firefight in Afghanistan will be awarded the nation's highest military award, the White...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Dubai
The Ruler's Court is located on the left bank of Dubai Creek, in the Al Bastakiya historic area in Bur Dubai. The Grand Mosque and Al Fahidi Fort, the oldest existing building in Dubai, are also...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Bahrain
I found these boats moored near the Bahrain National Museum, in Manama, the capital of Bahrain - I can't identify the exact spot on the map, but there's been plenty of time for new construction in the...
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Travelin' Tuesday: France
This mural is on the outside of a building on the Rue Chevalier-Paul, in Toulon; the building's front faces straight down Place Gambetta. The current picture in Google Maps street view, dated July...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Gibraltar
The so-called Barbary ape (Macaca sylvanus) is actually a monkey - a tailless macaque. They're the only macaque that occurs outside Asia; most live in North Africa, from Morocco to Libya, but a couple...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Shenandoah
The Shenandoah Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley, runs between the Blue Ridge Mountains to its east and the Ridge-and-Valley Mountains to the west. Stonewall Jackson, the only Confederate...
View ArticleMedal of Honor to be awarded for Afghanistan
ZUI this article from the New York Post:His name is William “Kyle” Carpenter. He’s a corporal who was medically retired for wounds suffered when he used his body to shield a fellow Marine from a...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Italy
Before World War I, Trieste was the fourth-largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the war it, like the South Tyrol and other pieces of the former empire, was taken over by Italy in...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Portugal
The Royal Monastery of Saint Mary of Bethlehem (commonly known as the Jerónimos Monastery), in Lisbon, was built in the 16th century. Originally a home for the Order of Saint Jerome, it is also the...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Slovenia
Slovenia is the northwesternmost piece of what used to be Yugoslavia. Piran is a lovely little town (pop 4092 in 2012) at the western tip of the Slovenian coast; that's the Gulf of Trieste in the...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Thailand
Pattaya, on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, is a popular tourist city. One thing that struck me was the number of German restaurants there. (They even had a newspaper printed in German.) The...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Massachusetts
On 5 Oct 1818 the Essex Agricultural Society held a cattle show in Topsfield, Massachusetts. What grew into the Topsfield Fair has been held every year since then, except for three years during the...
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Travelin' Tuesday: Guam
The Talofofo Falls are on the Talofofo River (which flows into Talofofo Bay - I detect a pattern here), in the southeastern part of Guam. I'd heard of them long before I ever went to Guam (probably...
View ArticleBook list - Apr-Jun 14
The Mysterious Island - adventure, by Jules Verne *The Grand Tour - historical fantasy, by Patricia C Wrede and Caroline StevermerMammoth - time travel, by John VarleySober Men and True: Sailor Lives...
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150 years ago: Mobile Bay
On 5 August 1864 a US fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G Farragut, supported by 1500 soldiers under General Gordon Granger, attacked the defences at Mobile, Alabama, the last major Gulf port east...
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Seshet
25 Dec 06.A month or so before my daughter's first birthday, we put her in her stroller and took her for a walk down by the river, not far from where we lived at the time. A few blocks into our walk...
View ArticleMedal of Honor to be awarded for Civil War and Vietnam
ZUI this White House press release dated 26 Aug 14:On September 15, 2014, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins and to Army Specialist...
View ArticleBook list - Jul-Sep 14
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies - AH, by Eric Flint and Charles E GannonMairelon the Magician - historical fantasy, by Patricia C Wrede *Magician's Ward - historical fantasy, by Patricia C...
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