Category: archive
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Ontario:
The annual Toronto & Ontario GT picnic on Georgian Bay (in Meaford) is upon us, and will be held on Saturday, July 13th, 2002. As usual, our host will be
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Costa Rica Volunteer Programme
Rachel works for a non-profit conservation organization in the US, The National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation. She is are offering Volunteer positions at our field station in Costa Rica
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London Meeting review by Padmassana:
Our first speaker was Mark Honigsbaum, whose talk was entitled The Fever Trail, after his book of the same name, which documents the discovery of the Cinchone tree (Cascarilla), which
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Sacred Texts to be Stored in Computers by Rinzin Wangchuk, Kuensel Online
The central monk body has begun teaching computer operations to monks in its bid to electronically archive Bhutan’s rich collection of Buddhist manuscripts, biographies and historical documents. Twenty monks of
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New York:
Hello Globies! June 1st is our next meeting. A timely and interesting topic; Afghanistan. We will NOT have a July meeting due to all of our summer travel plans and
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Weekend away: Marseilles
Where is it? South of France, on the Med Why would I know it? The French Connection? The Count of Monte Cristo? Beautiful people in the south of France? How
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Ontario:
The last Ontario/Toronto GT meeting was held on Friday, May 24th; members Ray & Inge Bates spoke on “Six Months in Asia Following 911” and Dan Ramrose spoke about “Five
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William Speirs Bruce, Scottish Antartica Explorer
Who, you might ask? William Speirs Bruce, let’s call him Bruce, may not be as famous as other Antarctic explorers, such as Scott and Shackleton, but he certainly did his
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Texas:
The next Texas meeting will be completely open: please come and talk about your favourite place, travels, anecdote or listen to others! Congratulations to Christina, Chair of the Texas branch
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Readers comments: best airport nominations
Koh Samui Airport, Thailand is good. No doors here! This has to be one of the prettiest airports around. Liz, England Koh Samui, The most tropical airport ever! The most
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Travel Quiz
Due to technical hosting problems, we are going to run last month’s travel quiz again for those who did not receive last month’s Globetrotter e-newsletter. Win a copy of a