Another for the song hall of fame.... "Washington Bullets" by the Clash ( Read more... )

I need to catch up on this, as I've fallen way behind....  Here's what I was doing about 5 years ago (actually, 5 years and about another half a year ago)...

June 2006

- We visit the Beamish Open Air Museum, a recreated town from 1910, out near Newcastle....

- We attend the Guid Nychburris parade in Dumfries

- Jenny graduated from the University of ( Read more... )

Diego Maradona, the football great, is quite the leftist. From Wikipedia:

"Political views

In recent years, Maradona has shown sympathy to left-wing ideologies. He became friends with Cuban leader Fidel Castro while receiving treatment on the island. He also has a portrait of Fidel Castro tattooed on his left leg and one of Fidel's second in command ( Read more... )

Of course we're watching some World Cup matches recently...  England are doing pretty badly, which suits us nicely.  They need to win on Wednesday against Slovenia in order to go on past the group stages... so that'll be an interesting game.

Linda has fond memories of World Cups past, and in particular there was one in 1978 in Argentina that she ( Read more... )

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From the Mirror:

AN EXTREMELY rare albatross has been seen for the first time ever in Britain after it lost its way in bad weather.

The young yellow-nosed albatross, which has only been seen once in Europe, was found at a holiday camp exhausted.

Camp owner Hugh Harris, 76, said: "It was most unusual. It was just squatted down - I think it was ( 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... )