Thursday, 11 October 2012

What did Nicolae Ceausescu and Sir Lancelot have in common?

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An interesting item about disgraced British knights, in the wake of the truly horrible revelations about Sir Jimmy Savile .  I knew about C...

Thoughts

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The Balkans is not a geographical expression but a state of mind. Romania is the Orient dreaming that it is France. Time is all we hav...

My philosophy of life

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Life is sweet, brother, who would wish to die? A gypsy speaking to George Borrow There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,  The ear...
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My philosophy of life

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Life is sweet, brother, who would wish to die? A gypsy speaking to George Borrow There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,  The ear...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Islamic and Romanian Ukraine

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A picture of the Catholic cathedral at Kamenets-Podolsky, in the Ukraine, an originally Polish city which is sufficiently far East ...
Friday, 5 October 2012

‎Islam in Romania

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Sheik Omar Bakri, who has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of a busload of Israeli tourists in Burgas, in Bulgaria, in J...
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Sir Jimmy Savile, the psychopath and paedophile who hid in full sight

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Savile centre, with Frank Bruno the boxer (R) and Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper (L) in Broadmoor Hospital. A disturbing picture a...
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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

'Oh, see the happy moron' and other quotations

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Doubtfully attributed to, but surely not by, Dorothy Parker: Oh, see the happy moron; He doesn't give a damn. I wish I were ...