Fiona and I happily bathe elephants

Maybe teacher was an elephant in her past life . . .

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January 20th 2009
It's no secret that I love elephants. I think they are strange and beautiful in their enormous oafy way. I think that their eyes are really soulful and that when you see their profiles, they often seem to be smiling and playful, a bit mischievous, too. They are definitely greedy for food, but I guess you might be, too, if you needed to eat 250-350 kilos of food a day. Despite what science tell ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more