again with people that I met; an elderly gentleman walking his German shepherd dog, the expatriate Englishwoman tending her lovely garden at the front of a pair of cottages on a deep lot(as was the custom in that part of Pasadena – stacking two houses on a deep lot), the young woman...
“The outer perimeter of Colonia Dignidad was marked by eight-foot fences topped with barbed wire, which armed groups of men patrolled day and night with German shepherd and doberman attack dogs. Guards in observation posts equipped with shortwave radios, telephones, binoculars, night vision equipmen...
I quickly formed a connection their German shepherd, Bruce, whom I felt would now protect me for life. And I was quickly reminded why I consider Darragh and Val, totally grounded with an uncanny ability to see through my surface, to be in the top of my best people list. There’s alway...
Origin:You might be forgiven for thinking that Yorkshire puddings originated inYorkshire, but this isn’t necessarily the case. Instead, they got their name from a 1747 cookery publication that called them ‘Yorkshire’ puddings to describe the light and airy batter made in that region, compared ...
In order to compel them, Filipinos were tortured with the “water cure” technique, learned from the Macabebe minority, and thought to have originated with the earlier Spanish colonial rulers, who had employed it during the Inquisition. With the “cure”, water was poured down a man’s throa...
For those of you that are unaware the Celtic people originated in what is now Austria. Straight and easy run it may be, but after a couple of kilometers or so it goes steadily down hill to the valley of the Jagst River. The geography of this area is the prettiest I have seen in ...