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Sir Francis Drake’s Voyage Around the World
October 12, 2012
Narrative by Francis Pretty, One of Drake’s Gentlemen-at-Arms. The FAMOUS VOYAGE of Sir FRANCIS DRAKE into the South Sea, and therehence about the whole Globe of the Earth, begun in the year of our Lord 1577. The 15th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1577, Master Francis Drake, with a fleet of five […]
Postcard from Genoa – July 2001
February 19, 2010
The sharp-eyed, and philatelists, will have noted that the above postcard was actually mailed from the Vatican. The guide books tout the Vatican postal service as much more efficient than the Italian. If I’m in Italy, and passing through Rome, I usually take advantage of the Vatican postal service. Note the elegant Vatican stamp, featuring […]
El-Jem, Tunisia — 2001 — A Roman Coliseum in the North African Desert
January 30, 2010
Something which I can now say to my friends (while raising puzzled eyebrows): "You mean there's a coliseum in Rome, too?"
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
February 22, 2013
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