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French Foreign Legion

I just finished reading "Beau Geste" a novel about the above group. And what a group... It was said that the only thing worse than fighting against the French Foreign Legion was fighting with them. They apparently had cruel and unusual punishment by non-coms,...

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Testament of Youth

In my next life, I'm going to be a movie critic... The above movie was great - definitely of the artsy-craftsy type, based on the memoirs of a woman nurse from England during WWI. Lost about every male of draft age she was close to, including a bro. and...

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Yogi Bear... or Yogi Berra !!!?

Well, now that I've already talked about Yoga Bear vs. Yoga Bare... Of course, cartoon character Yogi Bear (Hey, BooBoo) was named after the famous (infamous?) Yogi Berra. Who was the second Yogi, you youngsters may ask? Why, he was the most famous catcher...

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Cuba Libre

Now that the U.S. and Cuba want to restore diplomatic relations, the descendants of the Cuban elite in this country who fled Castro's revolution are up in arms. One would suspect, looking at who fled, that they were the Batista-sympathizers with money...

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Breakfast with Harold S.

I told Harold I wasn't going to write about our bfast this a.m.... but Harold, I had my fingers crossed! No, it wasn't quite like bfast at Tiffany's, but it was fun. We went Greek... hoping, I'm sure by so doing, to somehow shore up the Greek economy!...

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