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Something is hidden Rudyard Kipling's From days of anguish and anger to days of conflict and calamity. "His mind was his own place and therein he fought his fight, underwent his sufferings and won his triumph." History is an account of remarkable facts which have happened in the world. History brings us tidings of antiquity. History recounts the memories of momentous events. A half-world between liberty and limbo "Napoleon's image took on a new living form in memory and imagination." A Memorial Like No Other "An Unmitigated Tactical Debacle" "I love the place." "This is the finest view in England." A man above the merely great The Man Behind The Mariners A river nourished by the Alpine snows - but for how long! Lived And Died In The Service of Others "An Ancient amphitheatre as imposing as the pyramids" "A god to his friends; a devil to his foes" "A bubbling broth of molten rock oozed up, up and out." Once considered one of the three most beautiful cities in the world The final resting place of Canadian casualties from continental conflicts. Tourists Will Always Have "He that outlives this day and comes safely home, Preparation of his tomb was the living pharaoh's primary preoccupation. "An after-life based on legend and romance" From heretic to heroine "Their's not to reason why." "Etruscans are among the irritating obscurities of history." The pillars marked the end of voyaging. "The duty had, in fact, fallen on me." "A melancholic man with enormous creative and intellectual powers." Mummies, their times and tombs make Egypt a never-failing attraction to tourists. Complete with cutlass, eye-patch and hook for a hand. Snowbirds In Clearwater Its breathtaking beauty renews you. We were amused. The Big Apple. Open up that Golden Gate Sun and Fun in the Desert Create in Onlookers Awe, Wonder, Inspiration and Humility. Scene of such savagery Land of the Clans Straits Restrict Access "We Alta Go to Malta then Yalta." Citizens: Courteous, Clean and Clever BC's Coastal Islands Are a Long, Long Way from Anywhere Scattered Cities All Marching to a Different Drummer Russia's Second Captital München Mag Dich Kiwi Country "Tassie," Aussies' Notorious Island State Ola! Lively Land Down Under Tired of Life? Try London. To the Tip Go Forth North from Tierra del Fuego 13th Century Seat of the Royal Hohenzollerns History & Mystery Egypt's Most Famed Pharaoh Vistas of a virtual paradise Numerous city states nicely knitted together to form a country called Italy. The elusive lauded literary lion The sleeping giant has awakened. Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz "Bannaba" means "distant" or "far away." "Pearl of a Place" History's Home Get on the Bus Westminster Hall et al. Greeted by Grim Memories To Guard and Owerawe San Juan Invincible Machu Picchu Historical Happenstances Bowmen brought England a momentous victory. A conundrum Unfairly faulted The Tragic Trio Travel Broadens. HMCS Cruisin'
We must go down to the sea again. Copyright © 2012 W. R. Wilson
Go and find it
Go and look behind the ranges
Something lost behind the ranges
Lost and waiting for us.
Go
The Explorer
1. Mutiny on the Bounty & Pitcairn Island
2. Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe
3. Man in the Iron Mask
4. Easter Island
5. Napoleon Returns
6. St. Helena
7.The 'Little Corporal' Comes Home
8.Vimy
9. Dieppe
10. Churchill's Chartwell
11. Blenheim
11. Churchill's Funeral
&
Burial at Bladon
12. Portugal
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Henry the Navigator At Sagres
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Madeira
13. Cruising Down The Rhine River
14. Malta
&
The Knights of St.John of Jerusalem
15. Tunisia
Carthaginian
&
Roman Ruins
16. William the Conqueror
17. Haleakala
Mountain of Legend
18. Brugge
19. Tombs of War
20. Paris
City of Light
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named."
21. Assault on the Atlantic Wall
22. Ramses I
23. Richard Coeur de Lion
Cyprus
24. Jeanne d'Arc
25. Chaos In the Crimea
The Charge of the Light Brigade
26. Etruscans
27. GIBRALTAR
Pillar of Hercules
28. Winston's War Rooms
29. Samuel Johnson
30. King Tut
Et al
31. Pirates
32. Florida
33. Hawaii
34. The Queen Marys
35. New York City
36. California
37. Arizona
38. Gothic Cathedrals
39. The Colosseum
40. Scotland
41. Black Sea Sojourn
42. Yalta
43. Japan
44. Tofino
45. Greece
46. St. Petersburg
"Munich Likes You"
47.Munich
48 New Zealand
49. Tasmania
50. Spain
51. Australia
52. London
53. South America
54. South America
Part 2
55. Berlin
56. Egypt Jordan Israel
57. Ramses II
58. The Caribbean
58. Italy
60. Shakespeare
61. China
62. Mexico
63. Panama
64.Circling the Sceptred Isles
Pt. 1
65.Circling the Sceptred Isles
Pt. 11
66. A Trafalgar Tour
67.Palace of Westminster
68.Tower of London
69.Crusaders' Castles
Puerto Rico
70.El Morro
71.The Spanish Armada
72. The Incas
1. Crecy
2. Richard III
3. Sir Walter Raleigh
4. The Dirty Thirties
