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Hummingbirds

In Travel, The rest, Americas by tony3 Comments

Featured Image: The Zion Canyon camping area at Watchman on the Virgin River where hummingbirds flew over the river Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 July 2020 Hummingbirds Preamble The featured image shows just how adaptable specialist hummingbirds who migrate to North America are and have to be in the habitats they migrate through and to. Hummingbirds are feisty and …

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International Peasant Foods

In Travel, Amazonia, Argentina, Food, Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, USA by tony3 Comments

Featured Image: Poor Indian Girls by Train, Altiplano Peru 1974 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  30 March 2020 I’m no longer young. When you are young late teens, 20s, if you are interested in food, you begin to experiment with taste and variety beyond what you have experienced before. You experience new food sensations. This is very rare with me …

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Winnipeg Center of the Food Universe

In Travel, Food, Canada by tony2 Comments

Featured Image: Front of La Vielle Gare Menu Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  21 February 2020  I’m no longer young. When you are young late teens, 20s, if you are interested in food, you begin to experiment with taste and variety beyond what you have experienced before. You experience new food sensations. This is very rare with me later in …

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Yellowstone 101

In Travel, USA by tony3 Comments

Featured Image: Canada Geese, Mary Bay, Yellowstone Lake  Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 October 2019 Our trip to National Parks in the Western USA began shortly after Yellowstone opened in May. We were lucky to undertake this trip and some house-sitting in the Fraser Valley in Western Canada before Covid-19. I’ve written two articles on this trip Wolves, Bears, …

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Richard Evans Schultes & Rubber

In Travel, Amazonia, Books, The rest by tony6 Comments

Featured: Wade Davis The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, 2004. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 September 2019 Richard Evans Schultes & Rubber Introduction I met a young Swiss man about thirty in Pakistan in 1995. I’ll call him Marc. We shared a jeep with he and his girlfriend up the Kaghan Valley through the snow. …

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Wolves, Bears, Yellowstone

In Travel, Books, USA by tony4 Comments

Featured Image: Elk, Yellowstone National Park  Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  11 July 2019 Our trip to National Parks in the Western USA began shortly after Yellowstone opened in May. We were lucky to undertake this trip and some house-sitting in the Fraser Valley in Western Canada before Covid-19. I’ve written two articles on this trip Wolves, Bears, Yellowstone and …

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The Last Days of Osama bin Laden 3: The killing

In Books, The rest, USA, Pakistan by tony1 Comment

Featured Photo: Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer, 4.06 pm EST, 1 May 2011, Situation room for bin Laden raid    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  8 September 2015 The two preliminary articles which preceded this article were: 1 Abbottabad, 28 July 2015 and 2 9/11, 9 August 2015. The first sets the stage and tries to answer the question …

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The last days of Osama bin Laden 2: 9/11

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Featured photo: Tony 1995, Afghan, money exchange market, Peshawar Bazaar    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  9 August 2015    I want to begin by stating I have no expertise on these matters and am relying on the accounts and expertise of others. However, I do have an interest in the events and hopefully many others in the world do …

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Detective & Crime fiction 4: John Sandford

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     Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 May 2015     Biography John Sandford is also an internationally successful author whose novels invariably appear on the bestseller lists in one format or another. He is the author of thirty-five published novels. John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp who was a journalist before he began writing novels full-time. He …

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Detective & Crime fiction 3: Michael Connelly

In Books, USA by tony5 Comments

   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 11 May 2015 Introduction    Michael Connelly is an internationally best-selling American crime fiction writer. He is also prolific. He has an excellent official website, which is the best place to go for more detail about him, his novels, the series order of his Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller books and other details about him …