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Beyond wrote:Ahh... 10'F with gusty wind. Refreshing! IF you're an ice-cube :!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadero wrote:

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<<The first mention of Varadero was in 1555. The place was first used as a dry dock (Spanish: varadero) and the salt mines of the peninsula supplied most of the Spanish Latin America Fleet since 1587. However, the foundation date of Varadero as city was only on December 5, 1887, when ten families from the city of Cárdenas obtained a permission to build their vacation homes between today's 42nd and 48th Street. Tourism grew in the early 1930s as Irénée du Pont, an American millionaire [and a proponent of eugenics], built a mansion on the peninsula which he named Xanadu. Many famous and infamous people stayed in Varadero (e.g., Al Capone, Rob Stevenson, etc.).

After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, many mansions were expropriated from their rich owners. These mansions soon became museums. As a symbol of the new integrated tourism for Cubans and foreign visitors of all social classes, the Park of the 8000 Cubicles was built in 1960. Visitors could leave their belongings in the basement of the park, had access to sanitary installations and gastronomic services on the first floor, and could rent bathing articles and swimsuits. In addition to the beach, Varadero has natural attractions such as caves and a chain of easily accessed virgin cays. Varadero is primarily visited by European and Canadian tourists. The number of U.S. tourists visiting Varadero, although increasing, has been limited because of the U.S. government restrictions that make it difficult for U.S. citizens to visit Cuba as tourists.>>

Beyond wrote:Oh, what's a "bar-ba-loot"

Nitpicker wrote:

Beyond wrote:
Oh, what's a "bar-ba-loot"

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brown+bar-ba-loots

• • King Lear Act 2, Scene 4
  KING LEAR: O, reason not Thneed.

Nitpicker wrote:Definition of recursion: See recursion.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy

Beyond wrote:

Nitpicker wrote:Definition of recursion: See recursion.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy

A recursion by any other name... "Suzuki's Recursion – a Buell by any other name". This recursion wouldn't do me any good, as there is Buell's apple orchard out to the west of me, so when i hear "Buell", i think of apples. Especially Red & Yellow Delicious. YUM

orin stepanek wrote:A beautiful setting! 'Twas a Barefooted Barbequer with happy Brown Bar-ba-loots swimming in the pool! Oh; the barefoot was a few nights earlier! Life is good! I envy you it is cold here!
I hear they had 14 inches of snow in Oklahoma City! Is that right bystander? Couldn't last very long that far south!

orin stepanek wrote:
A beautiful setting! 'Twas a Barefooted Barbequer with happy Brown Bar-ba-loots swimming in the pool! Oh; the barefoot was a few nights earlier! Life is good! I envy you it is cold here!

I hear they had 14 inches of snow in Oklahoma City! Is that right bystander? Couldn't last very long that far south!

• Bystander probably needs a holiday.

Nitpicker wrote:
Oh, I was a barefooted barbequer too.

neufer wrote:

• Bystander probably needs a holiday.

Beyond wrote:Poor hydrant
I read an article recently that the polar ice cover this year was not only happening sooner, but there was already 60% more of than last year, come Novemburrrr. Don't know if that would affect Germany or not.

Nitpicker wrote:

neufer wrote:

• Bystander probably needs a holiday.

Bystander might also need a time machine to holiday in that Australia. But if one had a time machine, would one really go back to the 80s?