Picto Diary

Beethoven composed his sixth (Pastorale) and ninth symphonies at this location.

The man in the red jacket carrying the food tray. Three feet. Bruegel toying with us?

Under communism, no one asks you for your opinion.

If the English language is preserved in the future in correct grammatical usage, it won't be by Americans, but by Europeans who speak English as a second language.

Is the political correctness seen in our time is another form of the same phenomenon - circle of silence?

I walked... today... where Hitler walked......

Need for economic growth via immigration to grow the work force is a central issue throughout Europe, not just Germany, today.

The rallies, held in September, were usually attended by more than a million people.

Adherents? That's another matter as some 60% of Czechs profess to be atheists, the highest percentage 
of non believers of any country in Europe.

In 1996, Carl Svoboda, not longer with Citi, enticed V.J. to move to Saudi where he joined Carl at United Saudi Bank, owned by Prince Wahleed, Citi's largest shareholder.

Czech Jews were especially hard hit by the Holocaust.

Crazy Horse wasn't happy. What a troublemaker. Didn't know his place in the grand scheme of things.