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I'm not sure which is the Olaf Palme... is this it behind me in this dorky picture?  

My wife and I are now back in the Philippines.  We were in Costa Rica for 7 months but came back here a few months ago.  We are in the process of applying for a US visa for her and she has to be interviewed here.  We don't have firm plans where we will live; we just want at least to visit the U.S. though before we settle.

Speaking of the Philippines - and in reference to your allusion to the founding fathers etc - the U.S. when it took over the Philippines had a legal dilemma because it had no Constitutional provisions for having a Colony - hence, it was always in a quasi-legal state during the 50 odd years of U.S. dominance here.

I have only deleted one rude comment in the history of this site (plus hundreds of computer-generated pseudocomments that were nothing more than webspam to chinese leather suppliers and worse).  Although the site does get a few hundred human visitors a day, about a quarter are just reading the page about coconut oil, and the rest usually don't comment one way or the other.  What you see here is exactly what people have written.  I have not deleted any comments because I disagreed with the content.

I was not aware of that history in world war II.

I was also not as aware of the history of the Nicarau as I was of the history of Diriangen - I lived in Diriamba.

Have you read primary sources about Walker or only secondary sources? 

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