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French Curves! The first time I visited The City of Lights was in 1992. I was on a gap year. A wee lad of 18 years old, backpacking around Europe with my mates. It was a grey, rainy day when we visited the cemetery at Pére-Lachaise. Established in 1804 by Napoléon Bo...

Travel for Fun and Profit It’s funny really. My kids always get a kick when I tell them for the first 24 years of my life I lived in the same bedroom in the same house! My first real night living out, believe it or not, was after I got married! Then, to make up…

The Absurdity of it All!! Arguably that which differentiates Britain and her colonial subjects from the Free Burghers of this great United States is that most civilized of games. Not Soccer; Nor my favorite Rugby; No, ‘tis the game of leather and willow, Bat and Ball...

When Tesla Powerwalls and the Congo Basin Collide “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”   It was the age of Exploration! Dispatched in 1869 by the New York Herald, journalist Henry Stanley undertook a roving commission of the Middle East and Africa which included the...

One Principal that Compels us to War Do they even teach the Monroe Doctrine in schools anymore?   The Monroe Doctrine began as a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of ...