Friday, December 31, 2010

Top Five Posts for 2010

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I was recently enjoying my friend Sher's blog where she chronicled her top five posts of the year .  It made me wonder what my top five...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Does the World Need the Opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Do you remember when Ronald Reagan first declared the totalitarian Soviet Union an "evil empire?" Many citizens in the Soviet Unio...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

WWII was worse for Central Europe than even our histories and memories tell us

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Sometimes reading about the evil of the Holocaust it seems so over-the-top that it's all one can do to take in the enormity of all of th...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

St. Clement's Anglican English-Speaking Church Services will be broadcast globally this Christmas on BBC Radio 4

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You've heard that Christmas carol about ''Good King Wenceslas,'' right?  Well who was he? The Czechs know but everyone e...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Celebrating Those Who Celebrate the Best In Humanity

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2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo (right)  and his wife Liu Xia (left) Last week about this time I was watching the live coverage o...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91

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People of a certain age in the Czech Republic have had the misfortune of experiencing the full blast of the worst of the 20th century.  The ...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

Starting My Third Year Without a Car

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It never occurred to me that I could live without a car until I decided to become an ''Empty Nest Expat.'' Such is the con...
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