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The Atavist

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Periodic Rants from a throwback to the days when men were men, governments stayed out of way of the electorate and individual responsibility reigned supreme.

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  • And yet more Berlin Wall . . .

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 10:52 in berlin wall, dr. friedhelm pedde, paul miniato

    Photograph by Dr. Friedhelm PeddeIn response to my posting of the Fall of the Berlin Wall article by my cousin Dr. Friedhelm Pedde, I got a very nice personal account of a visit to Berlin long ago from an old friend, Paul Miniato. With his permissio...

  • More Berlin Wall . . .

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:34 in berlin wall, dr. friedhelm pedde

    Photograph by Dr. Friedhelm Pedde, 1989In the photograph above, excited West Berliners congregate at and climb onto the Berlin Wall in November of 1989. Days or weeks earlier, this would have been extremely dangerous. Enforcement of prohibition of ...

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 20th Anniversary

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 14:02 in berlin wall, dr. friedhelm pedde

    Demolishing the Berlin Wall the hard way. Photograph by Dr. Friedhelm PeddeThe link below is to a PDF document that contains something near and dear to me. I hope you will download it, read it, share it, spread it around far and wide.I was in Berlin...

  • Julius Pedde, 1904 - 1998

    Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 12:39

    It's hard to imagine that my dad, were he still alive, would be 105 on September 7th, this coming Monday. Yikes. Had I been born when he was in his twenties, I would be in my eighties now instead of a mere (!) 64. How the world has changed since m...

  • Peddes Everywhere

    Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 11:47 in family reunion, gananoque, pedde

    A bunch of Pedde cousins and my son Zach, Gananoque, Ontario, August 2009I'm back in my office after a whirlwind week that included a family reunion in Gananoque, Ontario, and a leisurely detour through upper New York State to get back home. Now, it...

  • Pedde Family Reunion, August 22, 2009

    Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 08:47 in family reunion, gananoque, pedde

    I am taking a week off. I know, how dare I, with so much to do, not least pointing out to everyone who will listen that we are descending pell mell into a hell of economic misery, thanks to misguided and incompetent bozos in various levels of govern...

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