Category Archives: Blogging from A to Z challenge

The End of the Challenge #AtoZChallenge #WritersWednesdays

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

The End of the Challenge  There is always an anticlimax at the end, like finishing the first reading of a beloved book.  But, somehow, one of the posts has given me an idea.  Doing research for the Challenge leads sometime … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 30, 2013 ~ Zero

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Zero Well, this is the last post of this series, and I have succeeded in keeping slightly ahead of myself for the whole Challenge! This last post is about aircrafts and engineering, and bravery. The “Zero” was one of the … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 29, 2013 ~ Yalta (Conference)

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Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945 It was their last meeting, the last Allies Conference of the War, that was to reorganise Europe in “peace-time”.  WWII was drawing to a close: soon Hitler would be dead in the ruins of Berlin, … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 27, 2013 ~ Xanadu

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Xanadu In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Xanadu, or Shangdu, was the summer capital of Kublai Khan, … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 26, 2013 ~ Women

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“La liberté n’offre qu’une chance d’être meilleur, la servitude n’est que la certitude de devenir pire.” ~ Albert Camus Perhaps one day – how far in the future is a matter for speculation – it will be suggested that parthenogenesis … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 25, 2013 ~ V.

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VVVVVVVVVVV   VVVVVVVVV    VVVVVVV      VVVVV       VVVV        VVV         VV          V. V is Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, published in 1963.  V has two story lines, … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 24, 2013 ~ Uranium

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 You are the most fatal chemical element found on earth, only preceded by plutonium, the byproduct (“waste”) of nuclear reactors.  In nature you are mostly the stable isotope Uranium-238, but your brother, Uranium-235, is much sought after by the sorcerers … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 23, 2013 ~ Thurn und Taxis

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Thurn und Taxis  Most of my readers will be familiar with the courier company TNT, but probably not with its historical origins.  The family of Thurn und Taxis are one of the oldest princely houses of Germany, with roots in … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 22, 2013 ~ Siris & Galahad

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 I have written about you, and you continue to intrigue me.  You are the young peasant who defeats the Titans, and Isa’s friend, or are you? Or are you Ausar, who, in the mists of times, imprisoned the Worker of Secret? … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 20, 2013 ~ Reims (and the Smiling Angel)

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Reims  The Remi, a tribe of the Gauls, founded you as their capital a century BC.  By 260 AD you were Christian.  In your cathedral, Notre-Dame de Reims, many Kings of France were crowned.  In 496 Clovis was baptised on … Continue reading →

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