In 1876, Maharaja Ram Singh painted the entire city pink (the color of hospitality) to welcome the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to the city. It’s not far from Agra and the Amber Fort. I attended Mass here as well. (more…) Categories: Interesting Places, Photos Tags: ...
Sorry, but this should NOT happen. All resignations, “quiet” or otherwise, should be reported to the press and investigated by the police. Bring the bureaucrats (i.e., principal; the vice; and anyone else in the chain of command) down to the police station, put them in an interrogatio...
It’s an Australian tradition to eat sausages at polling places on election day called Democracy Sausages. For many communities, this is the biggest fundraising event of the year. For her part as June Boatwright in the 2008 movie “The Secret Life of Bees,” Alicia Keys learned to play cel...
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan had been settled in large part by people from the southern states, many of whom were “Copperheads” with Confederate sympathies. While they may not have been too keen on slavery, they still felt that blacks were inferior to whites, and didn’t care ...
IF everything shown here is true, the scheme would be nearly brilliant, in that it looks very much like [inadvertent] human error. But put it all together, and *someone* is deliberately treating GOP and DEM poll watchers differently – and I presume that the laws/regulations on this requir...
Fortunately, Brick Oven Pizza is done western style and is one of the highest rated pizza places in Seoul and it certainly did not disappoint. Sophia’s Seflies – Seoul Food Honest to God I was happy as a clam on this evening but for just a moment, I mulled over Dostoevsky’s four ...
There’s an odd strain of whimsy toEmpire of the Sun’s second half, which is set in a prison camp, of all places, that doesn’t really match the brutality of the first half, or the story as a whole. The sequences before that in Shanghai, and then young orphan Jamie wandering thr...
The state of Texas evokes sweeping plains and open spaces, hill country and Gulf Coast beaches. Texas is not as renowned as a source for gemstones. Nevertheless, due to some interesting geological features in the state, treasures can be found underfoot in the right places. ...
Exploring new places and subcultures along with added independence gave me a stronger sense of my manhood. I returned to Connecticut with my virginity intact, yet I knew the sex drive drove me to be with my girlfriend across so many miles in the dead of winter. Relationships. When I left...
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