Baron von Winckler flattens park hill?
My Aunt in America has written a book of local history which I can't wait to read. This is what she has to say about it; My book is a 100 year history of a Denver suburb called Park Hill. The first development began in the 1890s. Before that it was prairie land. For perspective, Park Hill is closer to Denver than where I live about 7 miles further east. We need histories of suburbs because Americans are too quick to bulldoze everything after 50 years and simply loose the information that has gone before. Park Hill was platted by a german possibly related to the "Red Baron" of WWI. His name was Baron ...von Winckler. He had a very sad life and committed suicide h

And the winner of the cow battle was….
Nobody. It was a draw. Cows number 15 & 8 fought for ages but the judges decided to call it a day and everyone went home for their tea. The two top cows

Cow Battles
It's the day of the annual Combat des Reines here in the valley. That's cow battlin'. I never really believed this yearly event wasn't made up as a story for tourists, but sure enough that's where I'm headed this stormy afternoon. Chamonix Resort News (by Helen McGrory) “Combat des Reines” (Queen of the Cows) tournaments are held during the summer months throughout the farming communities of the French & Swiss Alps, but it’s not just any old cow that can enter. All of the fi

Why I love Spotify and you will too
Since mp3 was invented I've been collecting music and have over 1500GB of music on my server. The music was collected from many sources: ripping CD's, raiding other people's collections, downloading torrents etc, but something has always bothered me about it. The artists aren't getting paid for their work, and that's wrong. Much as my conscience bothers me, there's obviously no way I'm going to actually pay for something I can get for free and in most cases I can get it quicker and easier