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November 19, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile More than six thousand years ago, the most advanced civilization on planet was Sumer, rulers of the fertile plains of ancient Mesopotamia in modern day Iraq. The Sumerians weren’t powerful from their military strength or political system; rather, it was agriculture that developed
November 19, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Tan Nguyen was stopped on the highway for driving three miles over the speed limit. The policeman searched the car and found a briefcase of money that Tan said he just won at a casino. There weren’t any drugs to be found, but
November 18, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When the two young petty thieves, Rinconete and Cortadillo, came to Seville they were quickly censured for stealing. To their surprise, it wasn’t for the theft itself, but instead because they were not registered with the local thieves’ guild. In this upside-down world
November 18, 2014 Santiago, Chile Walking across a bridge with ornate classical Roman sculptures trimmed in gold, I turned down a little Italian street to meet up with a friend for lunch. As the aroma of pizza wafted around me, I couldn’t help but feel that something was out of
November 17, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Something is dreadfully wrong with this picture. In a report just released today by the National Center on Family Homelessness, a team of academics has demonstrated that the number of homeless children in the Land of the Free now stands at 2.5 million.
November 14, 2014 Santiago, Chile Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents. He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them. Was it Chi? Magic? None
November 14, 2014 Santiago, Chile What’s the biggest lure of elections? That people have the ability to change things by voting someone else in power. At least in theory. I try not to get too caught up in US politics these days, because that’s one of my favorite parts about
November 12, 2014 Santiago, Chile Thousands of years ago whenever the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt passed away, they were buried with all of their gold in a specially constructed tomb. The idea was to ward off thieves with booby traps and other perils so that these perceived demigods could enjoy
At USD $1160, a lot of gold owners are looking at the paper price right now and panicking. The conventional wisdom is that, because it takes fewer pieces of paper to buy an ounce, gold is a bad ‘investment’. This isn’t the right idea. It shouldn’t be viewed as an
November 12, 2014 Santiago, Chile When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first came to Prague on 11 January 1787, he was an absolute sensation. His smash hit opera Le nozze di Figaro had been released in the city a few months prior, and the people were absolutely wild about it. So this
November 11, 2014 Santiago, Chile This past week Brazil announced that it will be building a 3,500-mile fiber-optic cable to Portugal in order to avoid the grip of the NSA. What’s more, they announced that not a penny of the $185 million expected to be spent on the project will
November 10, 2014 Santiago, Chile It started off as a simple border checkpoint to keep what Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called “Western agents” out of East Berlin. Then they erected a barbed wire fence and started using a system of official travel passes to cross the new border. East
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