Line 875 is a circular route serving the Eastern outskirts of San Diego, California, USA. Yes, there is actually public transport there, improbable as it might seem.
31 years ago today, the first attack on the World Trade Center happened - a car bomb below the North tower, killing six and injuring many hundred. I haard the nws while en-route to NY for a month-long internship at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre. This stay would have been my shot at visiting the WTC'...
Did we have that FGTH tribute band already, the Gay City Rollers? Or the bards of the sexual revolution, the Hay City Rollers? Or their tribute band, the Lay City Rollers? Or the modern capitalism-cult band, the Pay City Rollers? I am quite sure we didan't get the Nihilist Grunge combo, the Nay City...
10 years ago today, the Olympic Games at Sotchi ended with a dazzling closing ceremony, in which medals handed out to the public came aglow in the Russian colours, white, blue and red. As Thomas Bach, the then-new President of the IInternational Olympic Committee, said: By living together under one ...
Supposedly it was trending as slang a few years back: https://germanyinusa.com/2019/01/04/word-of-the-week-tote-hose/ Interestingly, I'd disagree with one aspect of the article on germanyinusa.com: That the word had nothing to with pants. It seems to be one of the expression that has taken the road...
See #3 on the list ;) 10 years ago today, the explosion of violence on Maidan Square in Kyiv paved the for the removal of President Janukovich, a Kremlin puppet, from office; towards the institution of a presential democracy with strong parliamentary control, the beginning of a self-cleansing of Ukr...
Whether the US would actually have preferred Navalny to Putin is essentially irrelevant now. Isn't that the nice thing about dead heroes: They don't have to stand any reality tests anymore, and you can let them become what you want them to become. The only question is, can you persuade enough peopl...
Former UK ambassador Craig Murray says: Alexei Navalny should not have been in jail. Nor should Julian Assange. Nor Imran Khan. And which western politicians now waxing about Navalny said anything about Ukraine's murder of Gonzalo Lira? Or Israel's murder of Abdu Al-Tamimi? Oppose all or none. The ...
German wingback with an unintelleactual, work-minded, laconic, yet friendly disposition, died of sudden cardiac death this night, in his home. He was 63. Brehme is best known for converting a penalty for the single goal that gained Germany the title over Argentina in the 1990 football World Cup fina...