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A Giant in Brussels71

The Statues of Europe

The history of statue construction in Europe goes back over 3,000 years, given to us by the Greeks, who in turn took many of their early cues from the Egyptians while eventually breaking away from the...

2 comments    art statues statuary
A Lovely Park Near the Old City Walls79

Maastricht, Netherlands: The Green, Magical Dutch Town

The town of Maastricht is the southernmost major city of the Netherlands and one of the best launching grounds for travel to Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. However, the city itself should be given at least...

0 comments    dutch towns travel to maastricht
Play a Song that Captures My Heart; Play a Tune that Makes Me Forget77

Overcoming Depression: Music as Therapy

Let’s face it: the world and life are harsh. Not necessarily all the time, but certainly many times throughout life, existence may take turns at being a headache or nuisance, a long, aching pain, or a...

2 comments    melancholy and music
Sean Fullmer profile image71

Get Rich Slowly: Two Types of Passive Income

  For those who esteem it favorable to becoming rich slowly, or at least well off, passive income is an absolute must, for this is how the poor or middle-class become rich, and the rich become richer. ...

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Sean Fullmer profile image72

Curious Case of Benjamin Button Short Story Review

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button –Short Story Review     This is a review of the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, not of the movie of the same moniker.  In this story, a child is born...

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Sean Fullmer profile image75

How to Vote Like an Idiot

Voting is important, but this doesn't really matter to a great many who choose rather to make voting their own special game, without rules, without logic, without bothering to think. Voters, the American...

0 comments    bad voting voting satire
Dance Ladies67

Mannequins and Why I Love to Photograph Them

You see them everywhere you go in the city, and even many country shops have them: mannequins. They are as ubiquitous as they are unique from each other. They are the perfect subjects for an amateur...

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Sean Fullmer profile image80

Why Americans Don't Speak Other Languages

There’s an old joke that runs something like the following: A: “What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?” B: “Uh, trilingual?” A: “Yes. What do you call someone that speaks 2...

11 comments    foreign language monolinguism
The Area Where an Ancient Greek City Once Stood75

Visit to an Ancient Greek Tomb

In December 2007, while visiting Ptolemaida, a town where I’d once lived in northern Greece, my friend Nikos invited me to go for a couple of hours to see an archeological site. I could hardly...

3 comments    archeology archeological sites
Sean Fullmer profile image67

Learning or Teaching a New Language

If you are about to start learning a new language, or if you are a teacher of a language foreign to your students, you’ll naturally want to do it in the fastest, most effective way possible. This method is...

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