Tag: eastern europe
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September 07, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
In honor of my friends' wedding day in October, the maid of honor and the bride's sister-in-law held a surprise bridal shower. I've not been to many bridal showers, but I know the routine - . . .
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October 13, 2009 07:11 AM EDT --
Continental Divide: Eastern Europe Fears New Era of Russian Dominance
By ANDREW E. KRAMER With a new pipeline planned along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:42 AM EDT --
Turn off the lights! The pictures you are about to see are night shots, and they are best viewed in a totally dark room.
Budapest is really two cities on opposite sides of the Danube river, and . . .
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September 24, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
The NYT reports that Russian President Medvedev, after talks with President Obama, is now saying that sanctions against Iran may be needed after all. The reversal of years of blocking such actions . . .
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November 07, 2009 10:41 AM EST --
I've published quite a few articles regarding the swine flue "pandemic", most of them poo-pooing the WHO panic over what appears to be a mild virus.
However, Eastern Europe has now displayed what . . .
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September 18, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, President of Iran, gave another speech to his henchmen today while opposition demonstrators filled the streets a few blocks away. Ahmedinejad was in rare form, ranting once . . .
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September 19, 2006 05:36 PM EDT --
Lessons in Democracy: Honesty is the Worst Policy?
We all know the quote by Churchill: "…democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time . . .
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October 05, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
Opendemocracy.net, an otherwise very respectable and informative site, runs a "contest" every month for a "Bad Democracy Award" to be given to "the worst abuser of . . .
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November 13, 2006 06:23 PM EST --
Apparently the villagers from the new "Borat" film whom are horribly depicted as backward incest loving, rapists, prostitutes . . .
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October 09, 2006 04:05 AM EDT --
The "Anonimul" (Anonymous) International Independent Film Festival takes place every year in August on quite a beautiful location, the Danube Delta. Cris and I were planning to go this year, . . .
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December 26, 2007 09:36 PM EST --
KIVA STORIES
kivashare.gather.com (moderated) This group will share stories of loans made to entrepreneurs through Kiva.org.
The owner will moderate, the content . . .
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November 28, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers.
Aurelia Cenusa, from Severin, says clergy in her father's hometown of Darvari, 300 miles . . .
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May 13, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
Kiva is now officially on Twitter, and they need Our help
Welcome fellow Kiva Stories members and anyone who might stumble upon this story.
"Innovation, everyday . . .
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May 18, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
Welcome fellow Kiva Stories members and anyone who might stumble upon this story.
"Innovation, everyday entrepreneurship, and creativity are the aims . . .
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July 06, 2009 03:22 AM EDT --
There are many large fish in the world. Today we are going to look at one of those big fish. Our journey takes us to Europe home of the Wels catfish. Originally, this . . .
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December 09, 2005 05:42 PM EST --
In May of this year we did a 10 day trip to the Czech Republic and Poland.
One of the side trips we made was to a town called Kutna Hora. You can see its location on this map .
The reason to visit . . .
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October 08, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
Kati Marton, Hungarian-born US journalist, writer and human rights advocate, is publishing her sixth book, entitled The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, to be released later . . .
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April 04, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
Are you a keen traveler ? Are you using any opportunity to visit new unseen countries and to admire their sights ? Or do you just want to find an uncommon place to spend unforgettable holidays ? . . .
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September 27, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
Romania & Bulgaria Now In the EU
Bulgaria's
Geography:
42,855 square miles. Population is 8 million. Situated in the center of the . . .
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September 27, 2006 09:05 PM EDT --
A Child Without a Name
Children bereft of love,
Forlornness haunts there eyes,
A stare beyond steel bars,
All they have known for all there lives,
A rope restrains there hands,
The same questions plague . . .
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