Travel
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April 5, 2012
“Favela” is the Portugeuse word for a slum, a shanty town often made of cobbled together wood and cardboard shelters with dirt walkways and terrible poverty. Long-standing favelas will migrate toward brick and mortar but this simply “hardens” the situation.
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April 5, 2012
On a map with water, land, terrain but no other markings, how many of these can you place? (Some of these city names are in Portugeuse. Can you figure them out without resorting to a web-based translator?)
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April 2, 2012
New equipment today. Do we have enough of the right power plug adapters? Was anything damaged in shipping? Will it all work?
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April 1, 2012
I am the inspiration for Arnie’s character in the Hollywood fictional movie, “True Lies”.
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March 29, 2012
All Springfield-Armory firearms begin in Brazil. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia.)
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March 29, 2012
Postings have slowed because 1) I’m tired in the evenings and 2) things that seemed different at first are starting to feel kind’a normal.
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March 27, 2012
Hold it right there!
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March 27, 2012
