Monthly Archives: May 2022

China in the time before humans (Beijing and Me supplement one)

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This chapter will reveal why I include a geological supplement for each stop on this Olympic host cities tour. It’s not that I have a consuming interest in tectonics but I do have a compulsion for puns and now, as …

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Notes on the XXIX Olympiad – Beijing 2008 (Beijing and Me addendum)

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Before the Games. It’s not unusual for non-athletic controversies to bubble up around any Olympic Games and the 2008 Games in Beijing were no different in this regard. I’ll touch on one of them – the torch relay. Twenty years …

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A few words in passing

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This post isn’t in any way related directly to my travels but is rather an opportunity for a brief catharsis. The last post recounting my train trip from Beijing to Saint Petersburg ended with this paragraph and photo: At the …

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Beijing and Me

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Preface. I’ve reached the point in my Olympic host cities tour where I’ll be revisiting cities that I have written about elsewhere in this blog. Many – such as Beijing which is the leadoff city for this segment – I’ve …

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Humans arrive in Vancouver (Vancouver and Me supplement two)

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Most of the sources I’ve read indicate the presence of First Nations along the Canadian Pacific coast and inland into what is now British Columbia dates to 10,000 years BP. However, given what we’ve learned about the Bering land bridge …

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