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Angel Drop
Posted April 16, 2007 at 10:09 AM by ahsan
Cox's Bazar is a beach town in Bangladesh, with the world's longest beach. Probably the only beach in the world where you can see both sunrise and sunset over the waters.If you ever go to Cox's Bazaar there is one thing that you just cannot afford to miss. Its a small beach side cafe called Angel Drop. Angel Drop is prabably the [...]
place-name etymology
Posted June 08, 2006 at 10:13 PM by brankin
Two kinds of colonial naming: erasure and appropriation. But when it's always the colonists doing the naming, is one really preferable to the other? The recently created Nunavut (Inuktitut for "our land") is perhaps the only exception in the hemisphere.
Colored regions show names from the same language family (as categorized by the [...]
French Nachos
Posted May 31, 2007 at 05:20 AM by lapetite
From take-out pizza to microwaveable burgers to Flunch, sometimes it seems like the French just don’t understand junk food.There is, however, an exception: potato chips. My Lord, do the French have tasty potato chips. Now, it’s not their essential chippiness which is so superior to American brands — they aren’t [...]
princeton university
Posted June 21, 2006 at 03:53 PM by nio
from the princeton web site:recognized globally for academic excellence, princeton university today is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning. as president shirley m. tilghman noted in her 2003 commencement address:“the specific components of a princeton education have evolved over time, but our central aim has [...]
16-day whirlwind tour: day 12
Posted June 04, 2006 at 03:58 AM by starchicklie
We took a train through the Euro tunnel to London. In London we did a brisk city tour, and got to see Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the British Museum. We also visited chinatown, where we ate a delectable dinner :) Unfortunately, we arrived in London the day after the bombings [...]
