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Rowing in Weimar Berlin
Lotte at Moka Efti. Photo: Netflix. 1 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn has been sitting glued to the screen, looking at murders and rowing. From time to time, I enjoy reading a mystery story or watching a...
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Remembering the Jewish Rowers of Kalisz
It is a Jewish custom for a visitor to a grave to leave a small stone as a sign to others that someone has visited and remembered the deceased. Unlike perishable flowers, stones are fitting symbols of...
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ANZAC Day in Brisbane
3 May 2018 William O’Chee writes: Thanks to Tim for his kind article on ANZAC Day (see here). My local Sub-Branch of the Returned & Services League has the privilege of holding its ANZAC Day...
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Anmahian Winton Architects to Design the Hart Perry Boathouse
The firm Anmahian Winton (AW) Architects is behind the Harry Parker Boathouse for Community Rowing, Inc., (CRI) in Boston. 3 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The Stonington Community Rowing Center...
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Leander Genuflects for 200 Years and Counting
St Paul’s by night. 4 May 2018 Chris Dodd went to St Paul’s Cathedral on 2 May. He writes: As I walked up Ludgate Hill towards Christopher Wren’s monumental edifice, I couldn’t help the mischievous...
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Dan Boyne Rows on Dirty Waters
5 may 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 15 of “The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge”, Dan Boyne’s tale about his rowing and sculling days in the 1970s at...
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The Motion in Being
6 May 2018 The grave does not compromise. Its mouth opes oracularly, speaking certainties, speaking truths. The grave does not deceive. Who have gone before would tell you as much, save that they...
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Para-Rowing is Growing in the USA
Photo: USRowing.com 7 May 2018 Adaptive and para-rowing are on the rise in the rowing world, also in the USA, USRowing writes on its website. USRowing has offered adaptive and para-rowing racing...
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Homes of Rowing
The Grade II listed Pengwern Boat Club, in Shrewsbury, western England. The three-storey ‘half-timbered’ clubhouse was built in 1881 and still forms the centre part of the existing building. 8 May 2018...
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What the Ship of Time Holds
9 May 2018 The present moment is 8:20 Sunday morning, April 29th, 2018. But I work backwards to the year 3000 B.C.E., to Byblos, to watch the Phoenicians build Hippoi, the name the Greeks gave to their...
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A book ‘flavored with vintage Fairbairn’
10 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn takes a look in his book shelf, where he finds a hard to find book by Steve Fairbairn. Famous rowing coach Steve Fairbairn is known for his new ‘method’ of rowing, which...
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The Rowing Brothers who put Skibbereen on the Map
The O’Donovan brothers giving comic relief. 11 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn has watched an entertaining video. Gary and Paul O’Donovan, the rowing brothers from Skibbereen, Ireland, became household names...
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A Mind, Unreined
13 May 2018 I wakened to find my mind wandering far from me, my mind like a boat, oarless, off course, a mind not content to idle in one place, a mind stringing places like beads to make a necklace of...
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Rowing Quiz
14 May 2018 Chris Dodd has been digging in his drawers again and found material for another quiz. Chris’s previous quiz proved to be hard, so to give you some help with this one, the answers can be...
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NBC Sports Group Partners with FISA on a Three-Year Deal
NBC Sports Group world headquarters at 1 Blachley Road in Stamford, Connecticut. Photo: Wikipedia.com 15 May 2018 NBC Sports Group partners with World Rowing Federation, FISA, on an exclusive...
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Dan Boyne Visualizes 200 Perfect Strokes
16 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 16 of “The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge”, Dan Boyne’s tale about his rowing and sculling days in the 1970s at...
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A Century of Rowing at Tabor
Tabor Academy, 1962. 17 May 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: For ages, coaches and rowers at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, have believed that the rowing programme at the school started in 1919....
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Keeping it in the Family
A modern (2017) reprint of “Hereditary Genius” by the publisher Blurb. 18 May 2018 Greg Denieffe has found a rowing gem. Greg writes: Francis Galton may well have lived by Amy Rand’s maxim – If it’s...
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The Long Arc of Excellence
The returning national champion oarsmen (L-R: Paul Jacquot (Captain), Charlie Elwes, Sholto Carnegie, Thomas Digby, Jonathan Winter) are shown holding the 1873 goblet and the IRA trophy won in 2017....
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The Elements at Play
20 May 2018 The catboat’s scarlet sail wavered like a flame each time the wind changed, a flame the wind blew, wildly, on, yet, could never blow out. Philip Kuepper (14 May 2018)
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