Month: May 2005

Bordeaux in 1914

This is another dispatch from the book I am reading: Antwerp to Gallipoli – A Year of the War on Many Fronts–and Behind Them, by Arthur Ruhl. I think this guy was a blogger before his time.   Bordeaux, Monday....

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Hitler on the bench

The man whose name is more or less synonymous with evil remains mysterious. Though we have now passed the 60 year anniversary of his suicide on April 30 1945, shrinks and laypeople alike continue to ponder the mind of the bum...

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Greetings, Bootribe, aus Deutschland!

Can I be a temporary international diarist? I would send pictures from Wiesbaden, but in typical unorganized packing fashion, I left my camera’s USB cable at home… The weather is wonderful here, with about an extra...

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