I'm sitting here in Dumfries by myself in an outdoor cafe waiting for Linda to meet me after her hair appointment, drinking iced coffee looking rather disheveled and probably down on my luck, when a woman walks up to me ( Read more... )

Know your diasporas !     Here are just a few of my favorites (from Wikipedia):

• The Acadian diaspora - the Great Expulsion (Grand Dérangement) occurred when the British expelled about 10,000 Acadians (over three-fourths of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia) between 1755 and 1764. The British split the Acadians between different colonies to ( Read more... )