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Paris and Me (part two)
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Having unsurprisingly failed to condense my Paris visit to a single post, I’ll try to wrap up the three succeeding days in this entry before taking a look at the pair of Parisian Olympiads. Saturday Sometimes, as they say in …
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Paris and Me (Part one)
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Unlike the earliest entries in this series such as Montreal and Atlanta, I’ve written about my more recent visits to Olympic host cities elsewhere in this blog and that’s the case for Paris – the penultimate city for this category. …
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Humans arrive in Calgary (Calgary and Me supplement two)
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I’ve written before about some of the reasons I include posts about subjects such as geology or archaeology that are seemingly peripheral aspects of travel. One I haven’t mentioned is that in the course of learning about a place in …
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Calgary (Alberta) in the time before humans (Calgary and Me supplement one)
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Not the mountains, not the prairies In supplement one for Salt Lake City, I introduced the term physiography and it’s going to be useful again as I write about Calgary and the nearby area. Technically, you can find three of …
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Notes on the XV Winter Olympiad – Calgary 1988 (Calgary and Me addendum)
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The Winter Games Finally come to Canada If you’ve read the Lillehammer tales, you already encountered two the the stories of the Calgary Olympics – the tragedy of Dan Jansen and the triumph of Bonnie Blair. Fortunately, there was more …
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