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Happy Valentine’s Day. If you need a sound track for the day of romance, head over to Music Road for some great recommendations. If you want to know about the love life of a famous Navajo painter, we’re telling not all, but some about Quincy Tahoma and his ladies. Here’s a guest post about a [...]
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Destination: Heathrow, Terminal Five, England Book: NEW 9/2010, A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton Alain de Botton quoted in The Telegraph (Britain): “I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make.”
Destination: England Book: Watching the English (2008) by Kate Fox A GUEST POST by Julie, The Lady From London
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Destination: England Book: The Red Queen (NEW: August 2010) by Phillipa Gregory Boy, for a small island, and a relatively brief history (after all we don’t know much about them before the Romans) the British sure have had a lot going on. For all those who despair of ever figuring out all those branches of [...]
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Destination: London Movie: Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr. On Christmas day, the latest of many movie versions of the adventures of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes debuts. The new Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey Jr. as the brooding, sexy, young sleuth with a 21st century 3-day growth of facial hair.
Book: Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, by Sharon Waxman Destinations: Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the British Museum in London, Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the Louvre in Paris, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Welcome to my traveler’s library. Have you ever wondered how the lovely antiquities from some [...]
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