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-China

Oojamaflip

– Over to all of you to join the challenge with your own interpretation of oojamaflip – a British slang word of unknown origin, meaning a thing whose name is temporarily forgotten. – […]
Oojamaflip

-Germany

Yearning Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin, pioneer of rigid airship development and funder of the Zeppelin Airship company, was born on an islet just off Konstanz in 1838. A statue to honour […]
Yearning Zeppelin

-London

Silhouette

Over to all of you to join the theme with your own silhouette post, or with a post based on any single word that takes your fancy. And if you haven’t […]
Silhouette

-Berlin

Banging His Head Against A Brick Wall

banging your head against a brick wall English informal saying: to attempt something repeatedly but always without success e.g. I’ve tried several times to cure my addiction to blogging but I’m banging my […]

-Denmark

O is for… Once Upon a time

“Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen” – so starts the 1952 movie about Hans Christian Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), born […]

-Netherlands

Young Queen Wilhelmina

This large bronze equestrian statue on Rokin Street in Amsterdam shows Queen Wilhelmina as a young queen. It was created by Theresia Reiniera van der Pant (1924 – 2013), a Dutch sculptor, under […]