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I recently returned from a 2-week vacation in Turkey and prior to that (about one month before leaving) I thought to myself why not try to learn a bit the language. So, with the help of an audio book (the learn-in-your-car type) I followed almost 20 one-hour lessons to learn …

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Sometime in the 9th century Russia was ‘hit’ by a game that would become one of the most popular games in the modern world. It was a game of wit where 2 players moved pieces on a board in a turn-based scenario. That game was called chess and it is …

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Back when I was a teenager we didn’t have much online socializing to do, ‘mainly’ because there was no Internet on a broad scale. So we socialized outside playing, in school, in camps and all sort of enjoyable activities. It was popular back then to have your own personal ‘offline …

Cookies, those flour-based sweet little cakes you can hold in your hands and enjoy at any event, weren’t meant to be what they are today. It’s supposed that they were first discovered by Persians in the 7th century, one of the first nations to cultivate sugar. But they were created …