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- Kiyoshi Yamashita: Japan's Naked General
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... he saw. ( Wikipedia ) I only recently learned about Kiyoshi Yamashita (a.k.a. Yamashita Kiyoshi) and I've struggled to have much information about him. Unfortunately there's surprisingly little written in English on the ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Percy Sledge: Alive in Africa!
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... in each other's company. This incident could be just about anything, providing it puts enough strain on the individuals' nerves. A ... of an adjacent hotel, there was nothing "very important" about the Quai Des Arts . The concert had been advertised to commence at ...
Blog entry - Nayeli
- e-Marginalia Athens 2004
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... Year's in Vienna, by Gloria Schramm Nobody Warned Me About the Gypsies, by Karen Wolfgang ~ VACATION RENTALS :: Check out these New ... Greece! Actually, the torch preamble has been underway for about a month, but now the "big tent" is about to open. Are you going? Already ...
Blog entry - Margaux
- Behind the US Open
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... Mountain Resort for vacation. They were eager to hear about the snow conditions, the accommodations, the dining. The eldest of the ... misunderstand. I was way stoked to tell this grom all about the rad shredding, phat triple XL pants sag, and every last detail of ...
Features - virtualDavis
- Flanerie Kerfuffle
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... Onward to The London Lounge for a dip into chatter about The Alpha-Flaneur . Balzac said that flaner was "gastronomy of ... to name a few.) ... There is absolutely nothing "idle" about the verb flaner. It is a highly charged, active, and creative state of ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Anniversary in Italy & France
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... of years ago, I drove from Rome to Paris "shotgun" in about a day a half. I followed the Italian coast up with a lunch stop along ... . On to Rome ! I lived in Rome off and on for about six months several years ago, and I can assure you that it is always ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- The French We Love
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... if I could share something he'd sent along for me to read about a month ago. A lighthearted piece he'd written in the manner of The ... recent email: "Last week I did a bit of tourism about 40 kms from Sevres. Got lost in a small town. While there I encountered a ...
Blog entry - Margaux
- Love the Mojave
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... not the real quote at all. Still, there’s something about wheeling through the desert somewhere between the sticky streets of Los Angeles and the vapid spread of Las Vegas - something about that ambiguous state line between organic California and nuclear Nevada ...
Features - JoseKatharine
- Beijing in the Time of SARS
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... home. Suddenly mask wearers went from a tiny minority to about 25 percent of pedestrians. Some people bought extra food. ... the major functions of the city continued, many joked about the disease, though already suspicions about the government’s ...
Features - DavisCarlisle
- The Whale’s Gift
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... have been doing twenty knots when I first spotted them about a mile away, and in the time it took to pull out a camera, they were ... entirely, but the bull came straight on. His dorsal looked about ten feet tall that morning, and when he surfaced in front of my boat, his ...
Features - James Dorsey