Posts Tagged ‘history’
Boer War Poem
My great-grandfather served in the Second Boer War (Crosby). That is pretty much all I know. I found a letter when clearing my Aunt’s apartment (she recently passed at 99). I also found a recruitment pamphlet that was sent to my great-grandfather in Manchester, dated November 1900. The letter doesn’t have a date, it doesn’t […]
Shanghai Spaces: Lower Suzhou Creek I
With the amazing architecture of the Bund, the awesome skyline of Lu Jia Zuii and the Expo 2010 site, it is probably easy to say that Huangpu River exists as Shanghai’s predominant water body. However, the Huangpu retains it’s industrial soul, Lu Jia Zui is a little too much image, the Bund a little too […]
Underground City
I picked up a copy of Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us from Indigo’s books under $10 table. I’m not sure what a book has to do to be heaved onto the $10 table…perhaps this is where former “International Bestsellers” go to spend their twilight years…next to the the Chicken Soup for the Atheist books. […]
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