13 hours ago by gwenkay56

Snow in the neighborhood We had a rare occurrence in Algiers last weekend. The city received about 4 inches of snow! Although the mountains near here routinely get snow in the winter it has been years since it last fell here. It happened during a three-day weekend so it didn’t effect work too much b ...

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6 days ago by awd1970

Snow blankets ruins in Rome, 04 Feb 2012 (AP Photo) Up to 20 cm of snow fell over parts of Rome on Friday and Saturday – a rare sight in the Italian capital which had its last significant accumulation of snow in 1986. Romans used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks and kitchen utensils to c ...

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8 days ago by Emma

I’m often writing about the desperate situations that children and families in Algiers are living in, but today I just wanted to take a moment to celebrate the beauty of the city. Algeria is a beautiful country bursting with historic monuments, fabulous architecture and breath-taking natural beauty. ...

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11 days ago

Plan of the Great Mosque, Algiers, Algeria, 1096 A.D.

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12 days ago by MM Jones

Where the previous post's graphic of Spanair's reach from El Prat was fanciful, this is more straightforward: a map of the wide array of Spanair non stops from Barcelona, reaching three continents, including two Sub-Saharan routes to Banjul and Bamako. Prior to its demise, Spanair was expanding rapi ...

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23 days ago by Emma

From a tumbled down shack to a real building, the building project is now really taking shape. The walls are built the rooms are made just plastering, painting and finishing touches to be done.

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26 days ago by jonathan

Today the world’s first novel was published. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s life reads like a work of fantastic fiction. He was first a soldier, losing the use of his left hand to a war injury when he was 24. Then he was captured by pirates and spent five years as a slave in Algiers, getting ransome ...

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29 days ago by BG

Swissair is now Swiss.

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33 days ago by Kira

Flying to Algeria I had mixed emotions. Thrilled to be going to do a job I adore, there were a few loose ends that weren't entirely tied up in regards to my conditions there. Invited up to the cockpit on the flight, French registered aircraft, French crew, who often speak to Algerian ATC in French. ...

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40 days ago by Off-Road Hub Mag

About the Dakar Rally The adventure began back in 1977, when Thierry Sabine got lost on his motorbike in the Libyan desert during the Abidjan-Nice Rally. Saved from the sands in extremis, he returned to France still in thrall to this landscape and promising himself he would share his fascination wit ...

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