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86Borderlands: Bird Watching in the Danube Delta, Romania
Dobruja is a distinct region of Romania between the Danube and the Black Sea. CJ Stone goes in search of birds and memories while contemplating the mysteries of communism.
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75Atlantis
Was the super-civilisation Atlantis occupied by aliens? How was the city lost? Steven Andrews (the Bard of Ely) and CJ Stone look into the evidence behind the intriguing legend of Atlantis....
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85Introduction to Housing Benefit Hill
The name “Housing Benefit Hill” is a reference to a line in Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues by Bob Dylan from the Highway 61 Revisited album. “Up on Housing Project Hill it’s either fortune or...
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82Sweet Nothings: The Small Schoolgirls of the Borderlands in Eastern Anatolia by Vanessa Winship. A Review.
It opens with a photograph of two schoolgirls standing in a bare landscape. There’s an old stone wall in the background and a hint of fields and mountains in the distance.
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78Riding With Lady Luck
It was at a toilet-stop somewhere in Hungary that the song came to me. This drear place of nothing by the side of the road, just a pull-off with a scrubby bit of grass bordered by a fence, with a grey...
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75Instant Karma's Gonna Get You
In Hindu philosophical terms karma is a process of blind inevitability, a force of the universe, like gravity. You don‘t get a choice over how gravity works, your only choice is whether to jump off any high buildings, and whether to carry a parachute if you do.
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72The Great British Holiday
A nostalgic journey into a lost world of holiday camps, caravan parks, and camping sites. Of trips to the seaside: of Punch and Judy shows, Ice cream parlours, donkey rides...
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65Halloween: If I Were A Witch's Hat
It's that time of year again folks: the world-famous festival of fake blood and tackiness known as Halloween. In my local cheap shop, called George’s Mini-Market, you can buy vampire teeth, horror...
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67Columns IV: Welcome To The Future
"A Toilet Too Far." If someone on the outside presses the button for opening the door, then the door will swish open gracefully, leaving you fully exposed to the strategically placed seat opposite.
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