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Humans arrive in Russia (Moscow and Me supplement two)
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A never ending story of perpetual surprise Providing you, dear reader, even the limited detail these entries contain always requires research usually guided by a sense of knowing the questions I want answered. The joy of the journey, however, arises …
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Moscow in the time before humans (Moscow and Me supplement one)
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It’s not a Monopoly property, it’s a paleocontinent If you’ve managed to slog through my posts on geology, or more specifically paleogeology, the names of some ancient supercontinents should be at least passingly familiar. Pangaea, Gondwana, Rodinia, or Laurentia should …
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Notes on the XXII Olympiad Moscow – 1980 (Moscow and Me addendum one)
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The boycotts continue It’s likely that American readers of this blog know less about the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow than any other in the era of major contracts to televise the Games. The reason for this is, of course, …
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Moscow and Me
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My visit to Moscow was nearly, but not quite, the bookend to the trip that started in Beijing. Our small group boarded a train in Beijing early on the morning of 5 June, 2013. Twelve days later we arrived in …
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Humans arrive in Beijing (Beijing and Me supplement two)
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Africa. China. Africa In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin became the first person to propose the idea that it was “probable” that Africa was the cradle of humans and, in fact, Africa has been the focus …
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