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DC Court of Appeals, Judiciary Square. December 2021 Time rolls on This neo-classical building rises on the south side of Judiciary...

Loja, Spain with snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains behind. January 2018 [From FB post: January 16, 2018] Saved by an angel After having...

istockphoto [from FB post: January 20, 2017] Love Marriage on the Down Low in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has arranged marriage and by...

Vinegar Ferry, Marietta, Lancaster County. December 2020 Another name victim Walking the Northwest Lancaster County Trail in winter can...

Ellis Island. 1989 Creative history Casper Glattfelder immigrated to the United States from Switzerland in 1733. My family attended a...

Tigris River, Mosul Dam, Iraq (from Zawa Mountain). September 2018 So close, so far In my two years in Duhok I lived less than one hour...

Roti Prata, Tekka Hawker Center. December 2012 Simple pleasures Paratha: Parathas are one of the most popular unleavened flatbreads in...

Rotunda, Art & Industries Building, Smithsonian Institute: December 2021 Slow and steady The new national museum, the Smithsonian,...

Memorial to the Expulsion of Muslims, Antequera, Spain. January 2018 No hard feelings The Muslims took the Iberian peninsula in just...

Brunner Island Power Plant. December 2020 Deadly addiction by the numbers Southcentral Pennsylvania is awash in power. Consider the...

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Staten Island Ferry. Late Summer 1988 Working Boy The iconic views of lower Manhattan taken from the Staten Island Ferry set to Carly...

Teahouse view, Duhok Dam. September 2018 Running from a teahouse to an accident: why I never drove a car in Iraq For my first few months...

Rex Food Stall, Tekka Center, Little India. December 2012 Nasi Goreng Ikan Bilis. December 2012. [from FB post: December 27, 2012] So I...

Apple Store (ex Carnegie Library), Mt Vernon Square. December 2021 Gutted Andrew Carnegie built libraries across the United States with his wealth, some of which were spectacular monuments to public dissemination of knowledge. The one in St Louis is still as grand as the New York Public Library. Another of them was in Washington, DC on Mount Vernon Square built in 1903. The library was extremely successful and almost outgrew its capacity immediately. Carnegie also funded

THIS IS INCLUDED IN A LARGER POST ON THE ENTIRE COSTA RICA TRIP [see: before it was famous] Cahuita Beach, Costa Rica. December 1990...

Looking up from the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail. December 2020 A place to return to (the curse of potato bugs...

Al Jehl Museum, Asir. December 2015 [from FB post: December 31, 2013] Things you learn in other places. Do you know that most of my...

Macy's Parade, Broadway above Times Square. November 1988 Newcomers to NYC definitely have a punch list of things they want to...