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Waiting for the Fisherman
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/08/2016
» When asked what I like/love about of the Land of Smiles, its climate is high on my list. Though born and bred in the Big Apple, I never cottoned on to its winter cold. It was worse backpacking through Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. As for racing over icy courses, skiers are welcome to the sport.
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Loving non-humans
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/04/2016
» The close relationship between humans and lower forms of animals was noted millennia before Charles Darwin found a primordial connection. The relationship broadened in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
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A fond farewell
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/10/2015
» 'The most brilliant mystery writer of our time" (Patricia Cornwell's estimation) passed away this year. British author Ruth Rendell published her first best-seller in 1964 and penned a thriller yearly ever since. She was the narrator, her characters having their say.
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A great battle
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/07/2014
» All through World War II I’d watched the likes of John Wayne and Gary Cooper taking on the Germans and the Japanese. But the combination of William Shakespeare and Laurence Olivier battling medieval France left an even stronger impression. Rah-Rah was the order of the day during WWII, yet the English king’s rousing pap talk to his troops in Henry V was patriotism personified. And they went on to win the field at Agincourt.
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Why World War I?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/09/2013
» This reviewer can't reiterate often enough that a history book isn't a historical novel. There's no curling up in a chair or lying in bed reading a chapter of a tome penned by a historian on a subject of his choice. To be sure, some historians have a more agreeable style than others, but they are by and large dry.
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Crime in the city
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/05/2013
» Born in the Big Apple during the Great Depression, I learned a lesson I never forgot: Have nothing to do with the stock market. (My father bought war bonds in WWII). The US _ the world _ economy tanked in 1929 for a dozen years. Frankly, I don't understand financial fluctuations. Obviously, stockbrokers don't either.
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For Dog Lovers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/04/2013
» Dogs were domesticated in ancient times, archaeologists, historians and cave drawings agree. They were bred for different purposes, not least racing, and also for protection, to round up livestock, hunt foxes, pull sleighs, fight one another.
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Plague proportions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/10/2012
» Of the many ways planet Earth ceases to exist, over-population isn't one of them. Whenever that likelihood appears to arise some force _ God, nature, human _ steps in to reverse the process. Comets, floods, disease, ethnic cleansing, wars. Millions, tens of millions die.
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Hail the superhero
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 23/01/2012
» Comic strip artists and writers of thrillers have the same idea _ creating a character that can defeat evil single-handedly. The drawback is that when actual evil people come on stage, it requires the army, navy and marines to take them down. During WWII, I was one of millions of kids disillusioned that Superman didn't make short shrift of Hitler.
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