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December 13, 2016
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On the Beautiful Blue Danube. I’ll start this section with these questions: Does my header for this section have you hearing this? And if you weren’t hearing it before, is it an ear worm now? I am not, as Barbara …
December 13, 2016
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Terror follows pizza (and I don’t mean lactose intolerance). I didn’t think our time at Shoes Along the Danube or in the October 1956 memorial under Kossuth Square had yet sufficiently atoned for yesterday’s phallic frivolity at the Market so …
December 13, 2016
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Gyula Andrássy. The posts I wrote about Hungarian history while lengthy in combination were far from comprehensive. Among the influential Hungarians I haven’t discussed is Gyula Andrássy – honored by the statue in the photo at the end of the …