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Fun and Healthy Abroad Backpacking Trips
World Travel News, Information and Resources. | October 7th 2008 by Travelers
The decision to choose a backpacking trip overseas is a big one, and you are in for an amazing adventure. Backpacking in Europe or other external lands, with their ancient pasts, often brings surprises and breathtaking experiences. If you are fairly read more
US State Department ePassports are not fraud proof
All Things Reform | October 5th 2008 by David Weller
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Citizens Against Government WastePassports and Privacy Posted on October 3, 2008 by Dave WilliamsStarting in 2007, the State Department began to issue Passport read more
Interesting Fact # 900 - Passports
Interesting Facts | September 30th 2008 by Lynne Hand
Henry V created the UK's earliest passports.(According to the Home Office's website they were first issued in 1414 and they were called ‘Safe Conducts’. But even earlier than that a reference to what appears to be a passport is found in the Hebr read more
Interesting Fact # 899 - ID Cards
Interesting Facts | September 29th 2008 by Lynne Hand
In November 2008, people from abroad will be the first people in modern Britain to be given ID cards.(The scheme will cost a staggering £4.7bn.) read more
10 more things we didn’t know
cybasurfa - adventures in hypertext | September 28th 2008
10 things we didn’t know, from last weeks news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience (courtesy of the BBC). Hollywood actors were paid to smoke. Brussels is the burglary capital of Europe. Henry V invented passports. Busta Rhymes‘ read more
Penn Avenue to Host First Minority Holiday Art Sale
Pittsburgh Art Galleries Blog | September 24th 2008 by rick byerly
The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Si read more
“Nonsense.”
Take Back the Flag | September 19th 2008 by aadaro
World: Sarah Palin, you’ve been governor for 20 months of Alaska, mayor of a tiny tiny town of 6,500 people (that’s smaller than most Universities and some high schools), and are quite the “unvetted” candidate, with illegal read more
Dirty Little Sarah Palin Secret From…”Before”
Boardman Country | September 18th 2008 by Brad Boardman
As must needs be the case, political candidates are scrutinized - some more than others. In my effort to find odious facts about Governor Sarah Palin that were untainted by her new-found world fame, I came across the following video from clear back i read more
Safeguarding Your Identity
Crisis and Management | August 29th 2008 by RK
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not just Hollywood stuff anymore. Identity theft is big — and a growing — international business. And the prime target for such thieves is your most essential document — your pas read more
My Newest Conquest - Limone, Italy
113 Tidbits | August 28th 2008 by tony greene
If you will be in Italy, you should definitely visit Limone. Limone is one of Italy’s oldest ski areas, and it is a very old village with a twelfth century church and many other old buildings. The town is located near the French border, and is only read more
Future Passports
Chief Prognosticator | August 27th 2008 by Jason J Noble
When will we see high tech passport and visa documents? Well how about today? Some governments in including the U.S. Government are planning to embed digital chips inside of passports to be able to be read. Think of it as RFID technology for passport read more
I’ll Pass
New York Traveler.net | August 17th 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber
The tables have turned. I found this tidbit at Thailand of Smiles a week ago. It’s funny I remember when I was a kid and mom would drag us to the dime store or it’s equivalent and all the cheesy knick knack stuff and plastic furniture would have read more
Safety Tips For A Trouble Free Vacation.
Travel Guides | August 7th 2008
To make travel more enjoyable and less stressful (owing to how often things go wrong) it is often a good idea to re-iterate a few simple rules that can help prevent disaster. Often these problems can leave a bitter taste in the mouth and leave you wi read more
I Heart Pgh: Quilt Show CCAC Boyce and Passports Gallery write up…
Pittsburgh Art Galleries Blog | August 2nd 2008 by rick byerly
I Heart Pgh: Check out Maya's write up on Passports Gallery and Lindsay's CCAC Boyce Quilt Show... Like what's posted on this blog and the website http://www.pghgalleries.com/ ? This is a volunteer effort so donations of any size are welcome which ca read more
BARACK OBAMA : ” ICH BIN EIN TASTELESS OPPORTUNIST ” ?
Caledonian Comment | July 24th 2008 by Caledonian Jim
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New Pittsburgh Galleries Studios, Unblurred Art Crawl
Pittsburgh Art Galleries Blog | July 24th 2008 by rick byerly
Friday's August 3, 2008 Unblurred Art Crawl has some new galleries and participants. I previously posted the schedule here but wanted to highlight the newest members which I will be adding to www.PghGalleries.com shortly:Friday, August 1 6PM-9PM:PASS read more
Sunbathers ignore drowned girls’ bodies
Bad News Day | July 22nd 2008
ITALIAN society has been rocked by photos showing sunbathers relaxing on a beach next to the bodies of two drowned girls. CNN reports the two girls, Violetta, 12, and Cristina, 13, had been swimming with two friends at Torregaveta beach, west of Napl read more
Gimme a Passport, S'il Vous Plaît
The Genealogue | July 11th 2008
Marie Mance Vallee's family has lived in Quebec for centuries, but she's petitioning the French government for a dual-citizenship passport.Vallee originally requested duel [sic] citizenship in 2006, but was turned down because rules then stipulated h read more
Passports for US Citizens traveling by land will be needed June 1…
Baja Real Estate Blog | July 10th 2008 by Baja Online Realty
New Requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative are confusing some U.S. citizens, according to Baja California tourism representatives. “We’ve had hotels reporting cancellations because people in the U.S. believe that passports read more
What I Believe
The Quagmire | July 5th 2008 by Eric A. Seiden
(First, congratulations to Erin on her new TV. She saw it yesterday whilst we were browsing various stores, and decided to buy it. So this morning I went with her in my new X5 -- with the skanky iDrive system but otherwise wonderful -- to move it bac read more
Did an Intruder Devise a Classic Frame?
CrimeShadowsNews | June 27th 2008 by Chris Yarbrough
John Kastner looks to have been the mark in a frame up. Not only did a man allegedly break into his house and murder his wife –he made Kastner look like the obvious culprit. It seems the intruder, who supposedly came looking for an acquaintance read more
If I'm feeling calm, there must be a shitstorm around the corner.…
A day in the Life of Andrea knapp | June 26th 2008
Don't you ever get the feeling that if all is going to well, then a calamity is about to happen? I do ~ must be the inner pessimist in me!I'm sitting here at 6:37 am. The dogs and cats have just been fed, I have a lovely hot cup of tea at my side, read more
Govt recalls 46,000 Z-series passports
Information | June 25th 2008 by pradeepraj
Nearly 46,000 people across the country will have to surrender their passports and get them exchanged for new ones, as the government has recalled passports with serial numbers Z-000001 to Z-045925, most of them issued in Dubai."The government has is read more
Why Don’t Americans have Passports? Why do we know more about t…
Waging a War on Anti-Americanism | June 16th 2008 by Karen
My question: Has anyone collected data as to how many Canadians, New Zealanders, Australians, Chinese, Japanese, South Americans, etc have passports that was used to visit Europe et al? Isn’t it interesting how exclusively and carefully America is read more
mossad agents Killing Oz Tourists to Steal their Identity used in…
group121 | June 9th 2008 by anas
mossad agents Killing Oz Tourists to Steal their Identity to use in fake al-Qaeda operations zev_jew_spy.jpg, image/jpeg, 272x343 The Israeli Mossad agent Zev Barkan has been running Asian criminal gangs used to obtain Australian Identity documents read more
Yet Another Reason to Get a Passport
Cruise Talk Central | June 4th 2008 by steve klasen
I just read another tragic post on one of the cruise chat rooms from a gentleman who was taking his first big trip of his life to celebrate a milestone anniversary with his wife. When they got to the pier they learned that the documents that they h read more
My Story: Betrayed By My Own Government
Hope and Heartache | May 27th 2008
After our day-long meeting with the Yemeni and US government officials, Ahmed had agreed to lift the travel ban on me so I could go home to see my dying father, and he also promised to lift the ban on the children and let them return home once I got read more
My Story: Trying to Appease (part 6)
Mother of Kidnapped Children | May 25th 2008
So, at the end of the first week after arriving in Yemen, I had had enough and told Akmed that I was taking the kids and going home. He got angry (of course) and said that I couldn't leave. He had the plane tickets and wouldn't give them to me. H... read more
Passports
Are We There Yet | May 20th 2008 by Fiona
Ollie and I had our passport photos taken yesterday. The Home Office now issue a document, 6 pages long of what is/isn't acceptable. To sum up, an expressionless zombie with zero personality should fit the bill. (No wonder we Brits have that bubbl read more
How Anti-Americanism is Not Only Hypocritical, but Nonproductive…
Waging a War on Anti-Americanism | May 3rd 2008 by Karen
In my last post (Part I), I discussed America’s “genocidal” behaviors and how other country’s mass murders and torturous behaviors are either overlooked, applauded or unknown. I also noted how Anti-Americanism criticizes Chris read more
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