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Region: Czech RepublicI was told a story once in Prague about WWII. I am not sure if it is true. Reinhard Heydrich was a loyal Nazi and loved the music of Richard Wagner. On 27th September 1941, Heydrich was appointed acting Reichsprot... more
Views: 2066The Public Art of San Francisco
Region: CaliforniaSo which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a recl... more
Views: 1921Commercial Drive
Region: CanadaIn Vancouver the lively 16-block area of Commercial Drive (between Broadway and Venables) is an enormously popular district with locals, but is often overlooked by tourists. The main reason for tourists to come here is to ... more
Views: 2313A Common Language
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)I don’t agree that familiarity breeds contempt. For me, familiarity leads to taking things for granted. When such familiarity has been jolted in the past, it has caused me some short-term awkwardness, but in the long ter... more
Views: 828Procrastination
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)Until I was around 30 years of age, my preferred way of procrastinating was what I can safely call now the TPOT method. TPOT stood for “There’s Plenty Of Time” and was my way of convincing myself that there was no ne... more
Views: 9372010
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)Here are a few suggestions for some new sports to be included in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler. These new sports will ensure that Canada “owns the podium” in 2010. ... more
Views: 1527Listeners
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)My fellow, patriotic Americans, Today, I speak to you as the President of the United States of America, your President, not as the Leader of the Free World. I want to talk to you about patriotism, about pr... more
Views: 869History of the World - Part II
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)As you will remember from our previous chapter of “The Mid-Western History of the World”, just over seven thousand years ago Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden by the theories of the evil serpen... more
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