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A buffet at twenty knots

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June 27th 2009
This was a good week. Our feeding began on a quiet Sunday afternoon after returning the rental car that Mom had rented for her week in Vancouver. "Yours is that one" the Avis shuttle-man said, pointing at a huge (but relatively small) cruise ship, the Norwegian Sun. The first stop, of course, was the buffet, which was open from something like six in the morning until ten at night. There is som ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more