When I saw this graffiti I hoped to solve one of the greatest puzzeles of human experience: 'what is art'... - The answer, alas, is still missing.

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"Up until a week ago, here is something you could have learned from Wikipedia:  From 1640 to 1641 the might of colonial Portugal clashed with India's massive Maratha Empire in an undeclared war that would later be known as the Bicholim Conflict. Named after the northern Indian region where most of the fighting took place, the conflict ended with a ( Read more... )

I found out that I have direct family relation (from my mother's side) to Mikhail Tal, the mythological world chess champion. My mother, two years old than him - had he been still alive - still remembers him and his mother. Sadly, my ability to sit in front of Bobby Fischer is limited to the computer screen, namely I can play chess and sometimes ( Read more... )

I had to read it twice to believe that it's a real - well, sort of real - story...


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"The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert (poetry reading)

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