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Tusen och en natt

2009-12-09T11:16:27Z

Above is Charlotte Nilsson (now Charlotte Perrelli) and her hit, ‘Tusen och en natt’ which, in English, won the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest. The original Swedish version has far deeper and less trivial lyrics, and it is a shame that they had to ...

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Book Review- The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins

2009-11-07T19:37:22Z

The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins New York: Dutton (Penguin Group Inc.) June 2007 John Perkins writes out of guilt. Carrying on in the tradition of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History ...

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Lalo Schifrin conducts his hits

2009-12-07T04:52:53Z

Lalo Schifrin, composer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix, is still going strong at age 77. These were from a few years ago, and it shows that Mr Schifrin is as lively today as a pianist and conductor as he was in his prime. One YouTuber descri...

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Pablo Ferro’s best opening title is still Bullitt’s

2009-12-06T09:08:51Z

There’s still no rhyme or reason on when Vox allows me to access my blog here. This morning, I got in a private post, but clicking ‘Create’ again, nothing happened for the next hour. I wanted to share this opening title from Bullitt, after post...

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To be a woman

2009-11-30T04:07:02Z

To crack and break Twisted off like a twig Thrown outside the circle Discarded to the birds Ignored To bend and sway Dipping with pain Deep in your belly And tears that stream So to wash it all away To push and shove Till your arms are achi...

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A tribute to Edward Woodward

2009-11-23T12:18:50Z

I wanted to find some clips to pay tribute to the late actor, Edward Woodward. Strangely, the day he died (at a time when I did not know he had passed away), my mind kept thinking back to a joke my friend Ann told me (‘If there were no ds in his n...

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Spotted: ’69 Mustang

2009-11-21T00:01:23Z

Wow. Six minutes to load the compose screen. That’s definitely this week’s record. This is the other photo I wanted to show: A beautiful 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback with a 351 in³ V8 under the hood. I asked the owner for permission to photogr...

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I love free software that I can use for one year!

2009-11-18T21:04:41Z

I just cannot get enough of these free software (beta) offers. It is like I get to throughly try out what is new every few weeks/months. On my Samsung i8910 HD smartphone, the Opera Mobile 10 browser (beta) has caught my attention and now this. W...

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My yellow roses this spring

2009-11-16T09:27:48Z

They no longer look this nice, thanks to some strong winds on Sunday. But they grew to a beautiful size, considerably larger than last summer’s. The ones down the bottom are around last year’s size—compare them to the ones that stretched further ...

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Cancer Clinic AMCisrael

2009-11-15T17:10:29Z

Cancer was first described in an Egyptian papyrus of about 1600 g BC. In the papyrus describes several forms of breast cancer and reported that from this disease there no cure. The name "cancer" comes from the imposed Hippocrates (460-370 BC.) T...

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