Philosophical tours.
Egypt: Coming soon.
Greece: Organized by Philomobile.
Italy: Organized by Philomobile.
Lands of the Slavs – Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg.
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I love Broadway. I’ve lived within a few steps of it for the past twenty years and nearly always smile when my foot touches it. However, after spending some time on Kreshatik, the “Broadway of Kiev,” several differences jumped out at me. Here is a list: 1. On Kreshatik, Kievans…
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Background First metro was in London, 1863, then Paris (1900), and Budapest (1902). There were several attempts under the tsars to build a metro to relieve congestion, but to no avail. Only in the 1930s did the country give the project serious thought. It is said that citizens joined on…
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One of hundreds of great stories my father has shared with me… ——– Change Your Point of View by Joe Gracia You’ve probably heard of Stephen Covey, author of “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” He uses the word paradigm a lot, which simply means a belief, or a point of…
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One of my favorite songs is Дождь (Rain), and so to pass the time one night (and because I had just finished reading an extraordinary book on translation), I tried my hand at bringing it into English. It’s by the 1980s Russian rock group DDT. The group was an underground music sensation…
