Thoughts in Universe

Admiration of Beautiful Women

It is a hot summer afternoon at the beginning of August in Santorini. It is the middle of tourist season when all the young beautiful women parade...

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers (nee 1936), Garfield Sobers, Garry (Gary) Sobers, Sir Garfield Sobers (1975) is now 80. A great innings which has left...

At the end of the day in the flat lands of central Veneto, I sat sipping a lager and listening to the thunder rolling down from Montegrappa and...

Memories Incomplete of Omar Sharif My first recollection of Omar Sharif was his role alongside Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia in the early...

: Tulloch; Category: Thoughts in Universe; 16 January 2017; VENETO • VICENZA • Nove

On a fine balmy late spring afternoon, a Saturday towards the end of the Giro, you may find yourself in the piazza of Nove (36055), one of the...

For the amateur western cosmologist yet with time to live, there are (at least) two interesting and complementary verses in the Bible.Genesis 1.1:...

Everyone knows that to overcome periods of crisis and to succeed again there has to be a will to change, but not everyone can understand the...

In 1901 it is said that an advertisement appeared in The Times of London, possibly placed by Ernest Shackleton on behalf of his future Antarctic...