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I've written and recently published a pair of books on my family history: one about my father's side, and the other about my mother...

The heavenly creature in this 17th-century Indian miniature is known as a Buraq (Arabic term for lightning ): This is the kind of win...

For English and Australian visitors to Paris, driving has always been been a somewhat disturbing experience, because the French drive on th...

The domination of the power of fire was a huge step in the history of humanity. Today, alas, certain barbarian brutes are setting out backw...

Let’s face the facts. If we humans intend to survive on the lovely little planet Earth, then we’ll need to be imaginative. JOKE: In a ...

When my computer beeped, a minute ago, I found that my surveillance camera had sent me a nice photo of my neighbor Jackie bringing back a ...

I don’t know whether many of my compatriots have ever heard of a NSW rural township named Breeza . Here’s a wonderful photo of the Breeza la...

This is the second video instalment of Richard Dawkins reading some of his hate mail. It’s hilarious.

On Australia Day, these sheep got their act together: But this dumb ram didn’t:

I’m so stunned and embarrassed by the comical stupidity of that Abbott fellow that I don’t feel like saying anything much at all today...

It would be wonderful if the stunning victory of the extreme left in Greece could be an incentive for vast changes in Europe. On ...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

The Cournouze is like an old lady (or a young lady, for that matter) who has wrapped her shoulders in a white woolen shawl. Click to...

There are several fine articles in the English-speaking press that criticize the ridiculous notion that Islamophobia would be a greater prob...

It’s not easy to people outside France about the role in contemporary French society of a press organism such as Charlie Hebdo , and the im...

After this morning’s outrageous attack in Paris, the time has come to stop talking about Islamic actors in fuzzy terms. They are crazy homi...

Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people ...

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

Here at Gamone, it would be an exaggeration to claim that it’s cold… unless, of course, you were to go wandering around on the slopes—Aussi...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...