30 January 2015. It’s Looking a Lot Like Winter, Everywhere You Go…

Ice-skating rink near the GUM on Red Square in Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF

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Winter storm surge in Scotland… whew… I’d not want to be in the middle of that!

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St Basil Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow.

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It’s winter, whether you’re in Russia or in Scotland or in the Northeastern USA. Frankly, we haven’t had an Old School Northeast Winter the last few years, Global Warming is no joke… we haven’t had a real sockdolager snowstorm here in the Capital District. Of course, it’s February soon, the last full month of the winter, but it’s often the most brutal, at least as far as temperatures go. We had a big snowstorm in late November 2014 here, but nothing big since. Shall we dodge the bullet? We’ll have to see…

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13 October 2013. Politics Through a Cartoonist’s Eyes…

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20 January 2013. They Celebrated the New Year in… London

Fireworks over the Elizabeth Tower (“Big Ben“) of the Palace of Westminster in London.

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Fireworks display illuminates the sky over the London Eye Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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This is actually the same fireworks display, as seen from both banks of the Thames.

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20 January 2013. They Celebrated the New Year in… Madeira

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Fireworks lit up the sky over Funchal Bay in the city of Funchal, on Madeira Island in the Madeira Archipelago (Autonomous Region of Madeira), which is an integral part of Portugal, in the North Atlantic Ocean, about 400 kilometres (250 miles, 216 nautical miles) north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

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