Readers will no doubt recall that NATO initiated bombing strikes against Serbia on March 24th, 1999 as a result of events in Kosovo… The bombing lasted for 78 days. Several American aircraft – some manned and some unmanned – were shot down by Serbian forces during the more than 38,000 combat missions flown over Serbia … Continue reading
I still remember our teacher, Joe Gledhill, describing the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls to us in the fourth grade at Dobbins Elementary School. After all, it is a memorable story (and one that he told well) – the Bedouin shepherd boy searching for a stray goat and discovering the scrolls inside earthenware jars … Continue reading
The skyline of Mexico City from our apartment: Many imagine Mexico City as simply another overcrowded, chaotic and polluted megacity of the sort unique to the developing world. And sure, part of the city does look like those typical scenes of a developing country: But there is more to Mexico City than that. And there … Continue reading
Right at the heart of things, El Centro has always been the city’s core – even from the very beginning… El Centro was formerly the site of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, it was subsequently the colonial capital of New Spain and it remains the center of Mexico’s government today. El Centro is a concentrated cornucopia … Continue reading
With Americans being abducted during visits to St. Catherine’s Monastery, bombings along the Sinai Peninsula, the present turmoil in Egypt, Ansar al Jihad making their presence felt and Israeli traffic to the Sinai on lockdown, visits to the Sinai Peninsula have collapsed. The Sinai beach town of Nuweiba was built on the back of tourism. … Continue reading
At the foot of the Judaean Mountains, along the western shore of the Dead Sea, can be found the Ein Gedi Oasis. Ein Gedi is fed by several springs which flow through two canyons, Wadi David and Wadi Arugot. The springs are, in turn, fed by rain that falls in the Judaean Mountains which, after … Continue reading
At The Velvet Rocket we are often struck by the transient nature of life. How, sooner or later, everything you care about will be taken away from you. By how quickly an ordinary day can turn into an extraordinary one… Under no circumstances is this driven home more starkly than when such an event touches … Continue reading
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