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November Broadcast - Martina Nicolls
MARTINA NICOLLS - NEWS AND UPDATES FOR NOVEMBER 2020
Hello everyone,
I am still in Paris, where the government has announced another national lockdown for one month until 1 December 2020, although this will be reviewed in late November.
This email includes updates on Paris (where I am currently staying), my animal website (Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom), my aid development work, articles, photography, and general points of interest. For my aid development work, I am currently working on flexible deliveries for basic education in rural Somalia for children of nomadic and migrating families, including addressing the educational challenges for internally displaced persons (IDP). I am working remotely, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Regards, Martina
PARIS BLOG Have you read my blogs about Paris on my website: The Paris Residences of James Joyce? Here are some recent blogs. Read blog: The buzz of bees in Paris - about bees and bee production in Paris. Read blog: French Asterix comics - Albert Uderzo, the co-creator of the Asterix comics died in March at the age of 92.
Read blog: Felix Potin building in Paris: - about the story behind the beautiful former department store. The photograph of the Potin building can be viewed and purchased HERE.
PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO Top sellers last month on my photography portfolio site were elephants and a binturong (an arboreal mammal from south-east Asia). Here is the elephant photograph. ELEPHANT FAMILY: TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPH AND MERCHANDISE
More photographs and merchandise are available HERE. During the November lockdown, I'll update the portfolio.
MY WEBSITE: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM Some popular posts in October on my website, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, were the following: Read article: Does the Mexican Walking Fish actually walk? Read article: European Crane Fly Read article: Tanzanian Blue Ringleg Centipede
POPULAR BOOK REVIEWS On my blog site, Feast & Famine, I include book reviews. Here's a popular one about trees from the perspective of activists trying to save them. Read book review: The Overstory by Richard Powers.
POPULAR BLOG POSTS On my blog site, Feast & Famine, the most popular blog last month was a July article on birds. Another popular blog was a photography blog on a Sunday Walk. Read article: 50 Birds at the Paris Zoo at Jardin des Plantes. Read article: Sunday Walk: in the botanical garden in Paris.
AID DEVELOPMENT WORK Here's an article I wrote in 2013 when I was in Uganda about examples of significant African scientific research that is influencing the global science agenda. Read article: The role of Africa in advancing science.
THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE My latest book, The Paris Residences of James Joyce, was released on 1 May 2020. READ MORE:
From a flat patch of uninteresting dirt, Rike Park in Tbilisi, Georgia, has transformed in four years (from 2014-2016) into a busy park full of trees, flower beds, sculptures, fountains, and events. Rike (Rikhe) Park is on the left bank of the Mt’k’vari River (the Kura River) near the Old City of Tbilisi. The Peace Bridge links the right bank to Rike Park. Rike Park is below the hillside Presidential Palace and, via cable car, it is the starting point for the ride to Sololaki Ridge (with the Narikala Fortress and the Mother of Georgia statue). The glass box-shaped cable car terminus was opened on 23 June 2012, and since then the park has continually developed into a ‘people’s park’ where people can walk around, eat at the nearby restaurants, sit next to the statue of American president Ronald Reagan, climb the steps to Avlabari district, and access the sights of Meidan Square, the Peace Bridge, the Metekhi Church, the Old City, the waterfall, the sulphur baths, and t...
The Perfect Mentor pbuh (2011) is set in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The novel commences with Imama Mubeen in medical university. She wants to be an eye specialist. Her parents have arranged for her to marry her first cousin Asjad. Salar Sikander, her neighbour, is 18 years old with an IQ of 150+ and a photographic memory. He has long hair tied in a ponytail. He imbibes alcohol, treats women disrespectfully and is generally a “weird chap” and a rude, belligerent teenager. In the past three years he has tried to commit suicide three times. He tries again. Imama and her brother, Waseem, answer the servant’s call to help Salar. They stop the bleeding from his wrist and save his life. Imama and Asjad have been engaged for three years, because she wants to finish her studies first. Imama is really delaying her marriage to Asjad because she loves Jalal Ansar. She proposes to him and he says yes. But he knows his parents won’t agree, nor will Imama’s parents. ...
City Sightseeing buses have arrived in Tbilisi. The iconic red double-decker buses, a feature of many cities around the world since the company was established in Seville, Spain in 1999, is now in six continents and almost 100 cities. The company established its Tbilisi business in November 2013, with its operations commencing in February 2014. The 90-minute tour stops at 11 major locations in Tbilisi (with 2 to 5 minute waiting times at each location): the Old City (where it commences), Freedom Square, Rose Revolution Square, Marjanishvili Square, the Dry Bridge, Konka, Avlabari, Metekhi, Akhundov Museum, the Sulfur Baths, and European Square. Passengers can hop off at any stop and see the sights, hopping back onto the next bus at any time. Alternatively, passengers can remain on the bus for the whole tour and take photographs when the bus stops at each location. There are one day (24-hour) passes (for 35 lari – about $20) and 48-hour passes for 55 lari, with family d...
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