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Monthly Archives: April 2022
Notes on the XVIII Olympiads – Tokyo 1964 and Nagano 1998 (Japan and Me addendum one)
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Some of you might be wondering why the title of today’s post refers to two cities and two years but only one Olympiad. The answer is that when Tokyo hosted the Summer Games in 1964, it was the Eighteenth Summer …
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Japan and Me part three
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Having passed through some of the heart of Honshu – Japan’s main island – including stops in Nagano, Gifu, Kanazawa, and my favorite Japanese city Kyoto, (Free image from Pixabay) we were nearing the end of our three plus weeks …
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Japan and Me part two
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In the interest of full disclosure, I cannot attest to the sequential accuracy of what I’ll term Hakone incidents two and three. I’m reasonably certain we spent two nights at the onsen ryokan and that incident two happened on the …
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Japan and Me
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Tokyo and Nagano but not Tokyo and Nagano The featured cities in this section about Japan are Tokyo and Nagano but it’s one that will not really be about either. Here’s a little background on how I came to Japan …
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Glacial ages, climate changes, and the first humans (London and Me – supplement)
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Ice, ice, baby and then not It should come as no surprise to any of you who are at all familiar with geology – even if that comes only from reading my brief sketches of that complex science – that …
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