Monthly Archives: July 2011

PARADISE IS EASY TO FIND

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.  (Jorge Luis Borges) Some people just naturally understand what’s important and what’s not…

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PRIVATE PARTS

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

The Obama régime has now officially canceled stranger danger and children’s fears of having their private parts touched.  Children’s book author Ian Falconer has come out with a new children’s book in which Olivia the Pig gets searched for weapons … Continue reading →

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YET ANOTHER FLYING CAR

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

The dream of a machine that is equally at home in the air and on the road dates back almost a century to Glenn Curtiss’s 1917 Autoplane.  A great dream, but hard to realize – the contraptions were either not … Continue reading →

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JAN HUS – A BIT OF CZECH HISTORY

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

In 1414, the Czech reformist priest Jan Hus (or John Huss, if you prefer) was summoned before a general council of the Roman Catholic Church in Constance, Germany to defend his reformist views.  Refusing to recant, he was condemned to … Continue reading →

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NOW WE ARE THREE

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Story time for Tilly.

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DELAHAYE

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

The 1936 Delahaye Type 135 – a space-age car of the pre-war era.

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