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Entertainment in the early ages Throughout the early history of mankind, before the arrival of widespread use of electricity, when men h...

Bermuda's oldest treasure dies at 106 years, two months, and twenty-one days of age! When I was growing up, I recall that people who...

Apparently, I'm the luckiest man on Earth! I was complaining to my wife that oce again I did not win anything substantial through th...

2014 We have got off to a reasonably good start with this new year. To begin with, Christmas and the end of 2013 went fairly well. No sc...

Here's hoping 2014 is less complicated than 2013, but with lots of choices as suggested by the HOKUSAI 2014 Calender! We have not ha...

Frederick DeKlerk-Man of V ision In 1986 I was working as an acountant/manager of reinsurance companies. Consequently my books could onl...

Well Done! Oh Good, Valiant, Visionary, Peacemaker and Unifier! The end has come to signify all formal responses to the death of President...

Mr. Troublemaker! The Great Unifier At birth, the parents of Mr. Mandela gave him a name in the tribal language that I can neither spel...

In 1989, the autonamous government of the Community of Valencia established the broadcasting station of Radio Television de Valencia, (RT...

The be hoisted on one's own Petard: To be self affected by one's own schemes as used against others. I was not a reader of The ...

Typhoon Huiyan- Utter devastation! For more than one week I have been following news from the Phillippines concerning the approach of Me...

The view from The International Space Station This storm formed in the south Pacific Ocean, but had it formed in the Atlantic Ocean it w...

..is Not worth two in the bush. Birds have wandered into our house before this Sardinian Warbler came to call, but usually they find the...

All dressed up with no place to go! My son is 23 years of age. When I was his age I had married and we had two children and I was sepera...

Thirteen and Sixteen Days of October Playing with this thing!   October is my birth month, (October 1st), so I really wish that peo...

The most Beautiful Girl in the World She is beautiful both inside and out! (Accepting The Sarharov Prize for the promotion of Human Righ...

The U.S. federal Government has been shut down....Again! The game of Party Politics is supposed to be played like cricket. When one side...

What is the best way to get to the mountain top? Religious faith is all about striving to get to the mountain top, and believing that yo...

The amazing Ms "O" So, the story goes that O was travelling in Europe and stopped in a boutigue shop selling handbags that  em...

One of the safest forms of travel This week I was ready to comment on The Oprah Winfrey Incident, but I made the mistake of finally gett...

Humankind: What is their Essence? What is Essence: The most basic feature or element. I found myself wondering what was the answer to t...

La Tomatina-This is both fun and cathartic It's wonderful to have visitors at any time during the year. The effect on the host famil...

Whistleblower or Traitor? That is a question entirely between Ed Snowden and the government of The United States of America. He has no...

Two elderly people enjoying a moment of peace. Mr Jackson and I are agreed that this is one of the rare joys of becoming old. You can ta...

Family: More important than all the wealth in the World! At the heart of every individual is family.  At one extreme is the family unit ...