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	<description>I delight in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean Muse</description>
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		<title>Odometer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever our family went driving when I was young, I checked the odometer to see whether an interesting number was coming up. For example, perhaps we were about to hit 45678.9 or 50505.0. My brother and I would get in position so we could watch the magic moment. If you read my previous post about numbers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/10/21/odometer/</link>
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		<title>Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to write down numbers. Well, for a few weeks in fourth grade, I wrote down numbers until I grew tired of it. On a sheet of ordinary paper I simply wrote one number after another and kept going. &#8230; 2371 2372 2373 2374 2375 2376 2377 2378 2379 2380 2381 2382 &#8230; You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/09/18/numbers/</link>
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		<title>Our 9/11 Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 11 September 2001, Arlene and I boarded a plane for San Francisco at London&#8217;s Heathrow airport. The attacks on the World Trade Center happened about an hour into our flight. Here is what happened to us over the next several days, as published in the Nov-Dec 2001 issue of the Reel &#38; Strathspeyper, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/09/10/scotland/</link>
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		<title>Croatia 5: Klapa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Split two days before St Duje&#8217;s Day, and discovered to our delight that one of the festivities was a klapa concert. It was to be held in the peristil, the central collonaded area in Diocletian&#8217;s Palace. No fewer than sixteen different klapa groups participated, almost half of them women&#8217;s groups (until very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/09/09/klapa/</link>
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		<title>The Incredible Invisible Milky Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arlene and I just returned from three days in Mendocino, on the northern California coast. It had been foggy recently&#8212;a very common thing in Mendocino&#8212;but during our stay it was completely cloudless. And no moon! A stargazer&#8217;s paradise. I walked down the street to where there weren&#8217;t any nearby lights and looked up. And there it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/09/01/milky-way/</link>
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		<title>Croatia 4: The Walls of Dubrovnik</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1929 George Bernard Shaw said &#8220;If you want to visit heaven on earth, come to Dubrovnik.&#8221; Hundreds of thousands of tourists take him up on it every year. We were there in May, before the summer hordes arrived, but it was still crowded during the morning hours when the big cruise ships were in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/08/19/walls-of-dubrovnik/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;re welcome. No really, you&#8217;re welcome.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to &#8220;you&#8217;re welcome&#8221;? No, I&#8217;m not complaining that people aren&#8217;t polite anymore, far from it. But &#8220;you&#8217;re welcome&#8221; as a reply to &#8220;thank you&#8221; seems to be falling rapidly out of use. Instead, I hear people replying to &#8220;thank you&#8221; with&#8230; &#8220;thank you&#8221;. Huh? I hear it all the time. I listen to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/08/14/yourewelcome/</link>
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		<title>Croatia 3: Where have you gone, Marko Polo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Venetians hail famous explorer Marco Polo (1254?-1324) as one of their own, but Croatians will tell you that Marko&#8212;with a &#8216;k&#8217;&#8212;was actually born in the town of Korčula, on the island of the same name. For someone who died almost 700 years ago, he is in excellent health: Marko Polo house, Marko Polo restaurant, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/07/31/marko-polo/</link>
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		<title>Croatia 2: Be careful in that belfry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always liked climbing up to the top of tall buildings in Europe. It&#8217;s probably because I like stone circular staircases so much. St Paul&#8217;s in London, Notre Dame in Paris, St Peter&#8217;s in Rome, the Duomo in Florence. Typically I enter a doorway off to one side of the cavernous central space, and ascend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/07/25/belfry/</link>
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		<title>Orchids (and cactus) now in bloom</title>
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		<link>http://davidmostardi.com/2011/07/09/orchids-cactus/</link>
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