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August 7, 1998: Julian Bartley and many other lives from Marian @ Marian's Blog 07 Aug 2008 4:29 am

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I will never forget that August 7, 1998 was a Friday. In Croatia I finished a report for work. My colleague-friend Melinda and I had taken a day of leave and arrived on Croatia's beautiful, rocky, pine-scented Dalmatian coast to...

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March Madness? Bombing, from Belgrade to Baghdad from Marian @ Marian's Blog 21 Mar 2008 6:08 am

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It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it "comes in...

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