Here’s some geography trivia with which to dazzle and amaze your friends:
• More than half the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
• The Amazon rainforest produces mo...
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was passionate about spelling reform and left a substantial legacy to this cause hoping a new phonetic alphabet would be adopted. Each letter of this “Shavian” alphabet, devised by...
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Winnipeg is noted for some of the strangest ghost tales ever to be told, and the relating of these encounters with eerie spectres is usually associated with Hallowe’en. Perhaps the strangest of the strange was the Free...
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There is a lot of buzz about downtown these days. The Jets have returned, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is being built, there...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
To justify the surrender of the St. Peter’s Reserve, the October 1, 1907, Manitoba Free Press commented that: “The best people of the town (Selkirk) ... have for a long time...
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A new $6-million spa based on a Nordic design will be an added attraction at the city-owned Crescent Drive Golf Course in 2012.
The original Nordik Spa-Nature is located in Chelsea, Québec, where it offer...
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In baseball, all that agitated stomping around in front of the umpire is good for a laugh. But have you ever wondered if a major league manager or player has ever won an argument with the ump?
Well, it tur...
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Immediately following the column on “mic,” I heard from M.
“When we start to spell ‘enough’ the way it sounds,” M wrote, “then I’ll worry about ‘mic’ a...
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All real estate markets across Canada have their own unique attributes and characteristics. Within Winnipeg, for example, market forces come into play that affect different neighbourhoods in different ways.
...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
When the St. Peter’s Reserve Act was introduced into the House of Commons on March 23, 1915, an editorial in the Manitoba Free Press proclaimed that “a nine-year-old controversy” had ...
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