The history of the fluffy, huggable, Teddy Bear is well documented and equally well presented in toy-history books, magazine articles, and at several sites on the Internet.
The world knows that the stuff toy
The Road To movies are classics. The co-stars in each of the seven were Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. For most of us these actors need no introduction, but in case, allow me to remind you that Bob Hope
When I surrendered my boarding pass to the Heathrow gate clerk on New Year’s Day for my flight to Miami, Florida, I intended to complete three tasks in the next thirty days: cross the Atlantic, learn to drive on the right and get myself to California.
Imagine yourself a tourist in Paris in 1907. You are touring the world’s most vibrant city, but you feel an obligation to send word home to your loved-ones that you are safe and that you have seem some of the most glorious artwork ever
The curtain opens. There stands these three men. Each raises his right hand and says,
Who is the real William Wallace?
After reading this I guarantee that you could be
If you have been looking for an American postcard of Miss Mabel Hirst; stop looking. It is time to quit my search. With a high-degree of certainty, I can say, “There are none.” There aren’t many to begin with and
After you read the title, STOP. If you are young, skip these paragraphs and read on after the image below. If, however, you remember the 1960s, I want you to IMAGINE and THINK. Imagine you are an artist with skills equal to Rembrandt,
Helene Held was born in Poland in 1872. Her Jewish parents were working class people. Maurice Held, Helene’s father was a glove maker; his wife Yvonne was French by birth but was educated and a very accomplished cuisinére. The family moved to Paris in 1881,
I checked in yesterday at an almost abandoned – because of the coronavirus scare – hotel. It is just off Interstate 5, a few miles from the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California. As I pulled-in to park at the hotel, my rental car’s odometer
Back in the dark ages when I created the first of my “travel destinations” bucket lists, one place that was about half-way down the page was Leiden, The Netherlands. I had a classmate, Lotte, in elementary
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