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Marjorie and Chase on the Dockšt. ogledov:542Somewhere in the Caribbean, one of the stops on our Windstar cruise. Summer 1992%06.%03.%2006
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Marjorie Waiting For Our Car in Las Vegasšt. ogledov:649At the MGM Grand Hotel. Note that Marjorie is holding some dollar bills in her right hand -- you need to be ready with the tips in Las Vegas.%06.%03.%2006
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Marjorie Enjoying a "Sundowner" on the Mekong Riveršt. ogledov:621Taking a sunset boat ride on the Mekong, near Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.%06.%03.%2006
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet Namšt. ogledov:1198For more information click here. The official website, as best I can tell, is here. Marjorie and I visited the temple, which is near Ho Chi Minh City, on our visit to Viet Nam.%06.%03.%2006
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Unblinking Eye -- Cao Dai Temple, Viet Namšt. ogledov:6593The unblinking eye is the symbol of the Cao Dai faith, founded in 1926 in Viet Nam. "Cao Dai venerates a host of different figures including Victor Hugo, Sun Yat Sen, and Trangh Trinh, a 16th century Vietnamese poet and philosopher. Its ethics are based in the belief in the reincarnation of the soul." There are 7 to 8 million adherents, mostly in Viet Nam.%06.%03.%2006
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet Namšt. ogledov:5946Showing the altar and the unblinking eye, which "symbolises the divine presence of God."%06.%03.%2006
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Cao Dai Temple Eye - Tay Ninh, Viet Namšt. ogledov:5438"There are eyes throughout the massive temple that stare down, unblinkingly. The eye symbolizes God as He appeared in the first vision establishing the Cao Dai faith in 1926."%06.%03.%2006
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The View From Our Hotel in Northern Norwayšt. ogledov:641The brown industrial building is the rest of our hotel. We were in the "annex" on the top of the hill. Can you imagine four (or so) months of cold darkness here?%04.%03.%2006
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Marjorie With a Tank at the Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Namšt. ogledov:590We read about this museum and were curious. We had to specifically ask our guide to take us. There was nobody else there. The whole museum was dusty and forgotten, something left over (barely) from another time, another place. I'd be surprised if it's still there.%04.%03.%2006
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Ho Chi Minh City "Museum of War Remnants" with a Helicopteršt. ogledov:546From the New York Times of July 1999: "The city's Museum of War Remnants, with its displays of captured weapons and its catalog of horrors, only recently amended its name, with changing times, from the Museum of American War Crimes." We were there before it changed its name. Our guide didn't want to take us, and felt very awkward about it all.%04.%03.%2006
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Nordkapp -- North Cape -- Norwayšt. ogledov:502The monument at Nordkapp, the most northerly part of Europe. Photographed at midnight.%04.%03.%2006
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The Midnight Sun at Nordkapp, Norwayšt. ogledov:481Photographed at midnight, showing the sun still above the horizon at the most northern point of Europe.%04.%03.%2006
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