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Back to Johannesburg

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“Let’s go to the leading South Africa history of natural history,” I said to Judith as we were finishing buckwheat pancakes and springbok sausage for breakfast. We’d have to leave Johannesburg and head over to Pretoria. “It’s the Transvaal Museum and it has been around since 1892!” I said, reading a brochure I had picked [...]

Cases of Money Laundering

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Between the years of 1994 and 2001, more than eighteen thousand people in the United States had gone before the federal court system on charges of money laundering. This information was in a report filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in a statement that was then turned over to the Assoc. of the Chiefs [...]

Dubai

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Dubai is one of the 7 emirates and it is the most populated city of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is situated along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the peninsula called the Arabian Peninsula. Sometimes referred to as Dubai city to distinguish it from the rest of the emirate. The city of [...]

Origins in Johannesburg

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The people here are friendly and as we sat eating pancakes at the Pancake House in little Graskop, as happy and a little tipsy people rolled in all evening. Booze here is cheap, but the food here is killer and we love it. We decided though we could not eat twenty four seven thought we [...]

The Care of Tires

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Everyday driving habits affect the life of the tires on one’s car.  Speeding is a habit of many drivers on the road, and the friction that is created causes the temperatures of the tires to soar.  Aside from the act of speeding being dangerous in and of itself, this creates an even more dangerous situation, [...]