75th Anniversary of D-Day
This June 6th marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Two of the most difficult operations carried out on June 6th 1944 were the takeover of Pointe du Hoc and the landing of the first troops at Omaha Beach.…
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Game of Thrones (GoT) Filming Locations
It was early summer, and we were still getting boiled by the scorching sun above and the reflections from glistening medieval stone below. There were hordes of tourist groups all around us – most of them would drop in droves…
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
During the Battle of Normandy (Normandie), a staggering 425,000 troops were killed, wounded or went missing. Roughly half of these were Allied troops and the other half German. The Allies also captured an additional 200,000 prisoners of war, whose fate…
Bokod Houseboats
[47.498978, 18.283446] The Bokod lake is an outlet for the nearby thermal power plant, and never freezes, even when the mighty Danube that runs only a few miles from this location, freezes over during the harsh Hungarian winter.
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
As we gear up for the benevolent Santa to mine his database of kids’ privacies to deliver ads, umm, gifts to the kids, it is hard to imagine that there are others data miners who are vying for the same…