John Murphree

@JWMILLER (3275)

Westmoreland, Tennessee

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Tallinn

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 21 Jul 21

The capital of Estonia is quite a small city on the Baltic. There are lots of souvenir shops around the cruise port. At the top of the hill pretty much in the center of the city is located a lovely cathedral.

tallinn

cathedral

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Unfortunate happening

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 16 Jun 21

I went to the blueberry patch to put up netting to protect the berries from birds. I found a sad sight beneath the garden shed, shown here. Somehow, two harmless snakes had gotten hung in some netting from last year. I am...

netting

snakes

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The truth about two cities

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 7 Jun 21

The Poles fought the Germans in WW II and lost badly. About 85% of Warsaw was destroyed by the Nazis, including thosands of Jews who were killed. The city had to be rebuilt after the war at great cost. On the other hand, the...

warsaw

prague

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Travel Places

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 22 Apr 21

Many times when I am settling down to sleep, I often think of places that I have visited and things that they meant to me. Our last trip was to South America which I found very interesting in its differences from North America....

south america

nazis

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Travel

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 22 Apr 21

My mother was with us in London when she was 85, for about the 5th time, l guess, and I took her to California when she made her last major trip when she was 90. She finally left us when she was 92.

travel

family

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Hungary

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 12 Apr 21

Hungary was settled in 895 CE. By a group of seven families, apparently from central Asia with a language very different the one already there. We found Hungary to be a very interesting and pleasant place to visit.

hungary

travel

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Omaha Beach

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 15 Mar 21

A few years ago now, I walked along Omaha Beach where Allied forces invest Europe on X-Ray. I was overcome by the experience, especially because I knew a man who was there for the attack and said that he felt lucky to have gotten...

d day

wold war ii

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Train ride: Budapest to Sophia

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 14 Mar 21

Our train ride from Budapest to Sophia was on a decades old train from the Soviet era, with a conductor from the same time, it seemed to me. He told us that I ought to secure our cabin door because there were "bandits" in Romania...

budapest

sophia

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Budapest

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 14 Mar 21

The capital of Hungary is formed on the two sides of the Danube River. Down in the valley is Pest with its commercial district. Up on the hill is Buda with its huge church and some government buildings. The great governmental...

budapest

hungary

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South America

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 9 Mar 21

Couple of years ago we had a cruise fronm Buenos Aires around Cape horn to Chile.. I know we did not have time to research the continent, but we had really good experience and got the idea that they were not much interested in...

south american

cruise

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Kafka

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 26 Feb 21

Kafka was a really Interesting writer to me, and very unrealistic at times. In one writing he had a man turn into a cockroach. Ugh. I did not like that one. For a while he lived near government buildings at #22, a tiny apartment...

prague

kafka

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Kafka in Prague

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 22 Feb 21

Franz Kafka spent much of his life in Prague, and there are a number of places connected with his life there. One is a building downtown where the only part of the building remaining from his time there is part of the doorway to...

kafka

einstein

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Tomorrow's Historic Date

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 22 Feb 21

Tomorrow will be the 300th anniversary of the death of the 19th century Romantic era poet, John Keats. He hardly had any fame during his lifetime, but after his death, he became very highly valued as a poet in his short 26 year...

keats

rome

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A Tale of Two Cities

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 21 Feb 21

Warsaw and Prague look much the same as old cities. They are not. The Poles fought the Nazis at the beginning of Work War II, and about 85% was destroyed. After the war, the city was rebuilt as much as possible like before the...

warsaw

prague

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The Last Supper

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 18 Feb 21

Leoranado's painting, The Last Supper, was painted in the late 1590's on the wall of a dining hall of a monestery in Milan. It is quite a large painting, about 15' high and 26' long. It was badly damaged during World War II by...

leoranado

the last supper

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Milan, 2

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 18 Feb 21

Milan:a cathedral is beautiful, mostly white, almost sparkling in bright sunlight; it was begun in 1386 and finished in 1965. Sitting in the center of old town Milano, it is glorious.

milano

hapsburgs

cathedral

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Milan

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 18 Feb 21

One of the loveliest cities that I have visited is Milan, Italy. It doesn't look like an Italian city at all in the city's center because it was ruled by the Hapsburgs from Austria for some time and it has that influence.

milano

hapsburgs

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Travel

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 16 Feb 21

I always saved money for travel, and have done a lot, almost all very enjoyable. My favorite hotel can be found on the internet boat hotel in Budapest. It was small and securely anchored to the shore on the Danube River during a...

budapest

boat hotel

favorite

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Teaching English

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 16 Feb 21

When people first know me and find it that I am a retired English teacher, they sometimes say something like "I had better watch how I talk." NOT true. I have never cared about about how other talk, and still don't. How people...

teaching

language

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Treadmill

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 21 Jan 21

The treadmill was invented in England in the 18th century for use in prisons to "exercise" inmates. Oscar Wilde was forced to treadmill 6-7 hours a day. Source: Harvard U professor On National Public Radio

prison

exercise

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