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David Prashker's World Hourglass: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. 8220;Stunningly beautiful and rugged, this island wildlife sanctuary, once visited, is not easily forgotten. Its snow covered peaks, blue glacier ice and emerald green bays, are breath-taking sights. It is a real ‘oasis’ in the stormy southern oceans and is home to sea and land birds, seals and other amazing creatures.”. You can find David Prashker at:. Https:/ www.facebook.com/TheArgamanPress. As a t...
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: South Korea
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. The national flag of South Korea appears to be a tennis ball constructed around the symbols Yin and Yang - the Yin is blue and the Yang red (why is it a tennis ball, when surely it should be a golf ball? In the 1960s GDP per capita was at much the same level as most of the poor nations of Africa and Asia; by 2004 it had joined the trillion-dollar club of world economies, and is currently rated twelf. Marks against: 30 (the percentage of history b...
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Southern Ocean
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Monday, August 3, 2015. A descendant of the albatross killed by Coleridge's ancient mariner. To save you the trouble of going to the CIA World FactBook and looking it up for yourself, here is the verbatim:. And if you can make head or tail of that, you are, as Rudyard Kipling once famously put it, speaking of the then world-owning British Empire, "you're a better man than I am Gunga Din". Marks for: I have no idea. Ask the CIA. You can find David Prashker at:. David Pras...
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: South Africa
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Monday, August 3, 2015. Ah, South Africa, beloved South Africa, resonating through history with so many glorious names: Cecil Rhodes. The British and Dutch founders of apartheid, that most glorious of all contributions to the betterment of nations, the advancement of humanity, and the harmonisation of ethnic groups within a society. Later, when he was President, he clarified his position: "I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of Apartheid! Do I mean Steve Biko.
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Sudan
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Sunday, August 9, 2015. See also South Sudan, with which it was united as one country until 2011, when the south broke away; it was accepted by its northern partner as legitimate, though they are still negotiating the borders, and the substantial oil revenues, and trying to avoid yet another war. You can find David Prashker at:. Https:/ www.facebook.com/TheArgamanPress. Http:/ davidprashkersprivatecollection.blogspot.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Welcome
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. The World Hourglass,. Over-heated at the top,. Dismally polluted at the bottom,. The sands blood-red,. The glass cracked,. And time slowly dripping away. Hoc Annus Mundi: this year in the world. To choose a country, simply click here. Or use the link in the navigation bar at any time, the one that says "Sift the Sands by Country". The purpose of this blog (see below for a fuller explanation, and click here. Jean-Claude Juncker, current President of the European Commission.
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Suriname
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Monday, August 10, 2015. Formerly known as Dutch Guiana, and locked between Guyana and French Guiana on the north-east coast of South America, it became independent in 1975, after which it endured the normal saga of coups and civil wars, with a typically unpleasant despot name Desi Bouterse running the place in brutal manner, from 1980 to 1987 as the head of the miilitary, since 2010 as a theoretical civilian. Marks for: 10 (for the sea turtles). Sift the Sands by Country.
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Swaziland
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Wouldn't it be great if the next king of England turned up for his coronation dressed like this? Open the BBC Country profile and its first paragraph simply makes you shake your head in deep desolation, desuetude and even desperation:. The kingdom of Swaziland," it states, neutral and factually objective, "is one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies.". But you are the stalwart sort, inured against those three Ds, and so you read on:.
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David Prashker's World Hourglass: Spain
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David Prashker's World Hourglass. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. When I was sixteen, in 1971, friends of my parents invited me on a golfing holiday at Los Monteros, the exclusive country club and hotel in Marbella; the previous year my parents had taken their son with us on a tour of the championship golf clubs of England and Scotland, so this was their reciprocation. My other friends were shocked. Spain? You had to be joking? On the boycott list? Like South Africa and Israel and Cuba? But every Brit I know ...
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