MyanmarNet: Images From Burmese Buddhist Website
I found my way to a Myanmar website today, I can’t remember why I ended up there but I stayed a while. Most of the text is written as an image so even...
Read More →I found my way to a Myanmar website today, I can’t remember why I ended up there but I stayed a while. Most of the text is written as an image so even...
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Read More →Well, if Superman was English, what town would he live in? Solihull I guess. The accent would give him that air of respectability. Any way. Two Superman wannabes got pulled over this week. There...
Read More →Norilsk is the most northerly city in the world with a population over 100,000. It’s also the second largest city in the Arctic Circle, after Murmansk. On the muckier side of the coin...
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