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Feb.18.2013
A spike-like needle piercing one cheek and running through his mouth until it pushed through his other brown cheek, the youth trembled violently five or six feet away from me. Costumed in a multicolored robe and cape, a mirrored crown on...
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Jan.11.2012
Starlight, star brightTwinkling lights on scatteredlike diamonds on black velvet.I’ve always been fascinated with the constellations. As a kid we subscribed to National Geographic. I remember pulling out the poster that displayed the Winter Sky on one side and the Summer Sky on the other. I...
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Nov.22.2011
Well, no city in Canada made the cut (though two in the USA did). So it is not restricted to the Old World - just poorly aimed. I did, for years, live in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which had its own "Poets Corner". And a nice li'l cluster of dead poets in a specific graveyard. With a tale of one...
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Sep.19.2011
HIV/AIDS, My "Virus Novel" and Oldstone's Virus, Plagues & History
Photo #1: AIDS Research, photo by Karen Kasmanski, from nationalgeographic.com: A scientist in Franceville, Gabon, removes hair and blood samples from a cooperative chimpanzee. Researchers believe that an evolving AIDS...
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Mar.15.2011
National Geographic
An artist's conception shows the city of Atlantis as it has been envisioned in legend. — A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in...
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Oct.07.2009
Of all the beautiful photos you’ve ever seen in your life, what would be the ones you would put in a single book to share with the world?
National Geographic tapped into its vault of photographs from over years of time and put them together in this amazing book. Some of these pictures are dated...
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Oct.02.2009
Disclaimer: This blog may not be considered politically correct!
I have to admit that some of my ideas for comments here come to me as I take my shower, and today was no exception. Thinking about yesterday's blog and the one from late July, a thought came to me about the way the kids in my...
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Sep.29.2009
I tuned into the evening news tonight, only to learn that earlier today there was an 8.0 to 8.3 earthquake in Samoa lasting several minutes, followed by a tsunami. Apparently, there have been deaths, but, as I write, the numbers are unknown. One account I read said there was a water surge of over...
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Jul.16.2009
This economic year is affecting everyone, not only in the U.S. and U.K., but as well around the globe. Budgets are tighter for companies small and large, resulting in less advertising, affecting ad agencies and magazines - this trickles down to photographers through fewer assignments, smaller stock...
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Feb.20.2009
"A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive."
This is the motto of the Kabul Museum, recently printed in bold letters on a banner above the entrance. In that spirit, I want to draw attention to a National Geographics exhibition that is presently on tour in the U.S. It is called...
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