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Check out the blog I've started last year. It's a questions blog. Asking questions is liberating - it helps understand the past and live the present. Answering them is stimulating - it builds the future.

It's called 'What? Why? How? When?'. You can find it here http://whatwhyhowwhen.blogspot.com

My pages are a work in progress (just as my life!)

I'm Portuguese and following a nation's tradition I love to travel. I see the World as something unique that deserves to be seen. I enjoy to interact with persons for different cultures and backgrounds.

My hometown is the beautiful Lisboa! If haven't been there you don't know what you are missing. Given it's geographically location is many times outside the path of travelers, to go to Lisboa you must want to go to Lisboa! What you find will surprise you.

I just moved to Bologna, Italy after five years living in Holland, Michigan. I'm getting used to la bella vita!!

Check out my web page with lots of photos from my trips!

Miguel

This is a great book by John Noble Wilford that talks about the story of the men and women that helped build something today we take for granted, maps.

Here is an extract from the book: "The Greco-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy III made a shrewd hire when, in about 240 B.C., he appointed a bookworm and poet named Eratosthenes to be the librarian of the great Alexandrian Museum. Eratosthenes, derided by his envious colleagues as a second-stringer, nursed an insatiable curiosity about the natural world. Acting on hunches and sailors' reports, he decided to conduct an experiment to measure the earth's circumference, which he eventually reckoned to be 46,000 kilometers--a little far off the actual mark of 40,000 kilometers but close enough that both Eratosthenes and Ptolemy entered history as founding fathers of the modern science of cartography."