Daily Archives: March 17, 2008

Dreams of Traveling Deferred

I wonder if I will ever be able to afford to travel through Europe again: 1 Euro = 1.575 US Dollars1 British Pound = 2.00 US Dollars(courtesy of the Universal Currency Calculator) Tack on top of the exchange rate that … Continue reading

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France loses its last World War I veteran

I saw this article early this morning, announcing that the last living World War I veteran in France, Lazare Ponticelli, had died at the age of 110. He was born in 1897 in Italy and emigrated at the age of … Continue reading

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