Moai in rano raraku, the quarry

big heads in the middle of the pacific

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June 4th 2010
Blogs, in general, straddle the borderline between tolerable blather and hubristic self-aggrandizing myopic adventures of me. Given that I tend to wander rather far into the second realm, I am conscious of frequency. Excepting your family, people can only tolerate so much. On one end of the spectrum is noble silence. Very admirable. On the more prolific end of the spectrum is friend Mark (den ... read more

South America » Chile » Easter Island

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more