There are 5 item(s) tagged with “canada” on this site.
Other tags used by these items: history, spies, middle-east, air-travel, geography, treasure, fiction
“So, here’s the problem with this book: the situation is ultimately just not that exciting. Yes, the movie was apparently great, and the set-up is amazing – diplomats hiding in a hostile country, escaping through disguise, etc. – but in the end, the CIA forged some documents and they all walked out….”
“It has to do with the transition from two-letter to three-letter codes. Originally, airport codes were just two-letters. In Canada, they decided to use the same code as the Morse code for the corresponding Canadian railway station. Eventually, it became important to know if an airport had a weather…”
“This is a geographic ‘notch’ of Minnesota that pokes up into Canada. It contains the northernmost point in the contiguous United States. What’s unique about this place is that it mostly consists of the Lake of the Words in the southern portion, which cross the entire span, from east to west. At the…”
“This book is both fascinating and inadvertently funny. I found myself laughing with happiness (glee?) at some parts of it, contemplating what just might be an amazing prank that’s played out over hundreds of years. Way, way back in 1795, three Canadian teenagers found a depressed area of ground on…”
“Robertson Davies is apparently a very famous Canadian novelist. The fact that I didn’t know this is not surprising, I guess. I was visiting a friend in Ottawa, and we went to a local bookstore. He handed me this and told me to buy it. He said it was required reading for most Canadian high school…”
