In the misty chronicles of higher education, few places can claim the sheer gravitational pull of the University of Oxford. Teaching here dates back to at least 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It exploded in popularity after 1167 when Henry II, in a classic medieval hissy fit with the French,…
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Pompeii Past Preserved
What do you do when you binge-watch “Sopranos” again? You book a flight to Napoli, or Naples, if you will. The Other Me and I had this overwhelming need to go back to Italy and Tony Soprano convinced us that it was time to go back. With less then 2hour flight from Istanbul it is…
My pandemic…
The events of year 2020 took us all by surprise. The world turned upside down within few weeks. Suddenly what I had known as the “normal” living ceased to exist, and the new reality had taken it place. Things that I had taken for granted, as going for a walk to the mountains or beach,…
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