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    The Last Journey for the Man of Peace

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      The Last Journey for the Man of Peace: A Daughter’s Remembrance   by Aye Aye Thant November 25, 2019 is the 45th anniversary of my father U Thant’s passing. I would like to take this opportunity to share my personal recollections of a fateful time: the events surrounding my father’s funeral, when student activists in Rangoon seized my father’s body to protest the military government’s refusal to give him a state funeral. My father, U Thant, passed away at the age of 65 on Monday, November 25, 1974 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he had...
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    ​Airline Staff don’t sell only travel​ by Cecil Wagstaff (Australia)

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    ​Airline Staff don’t sell only travel​ By Cecil Wagstaff (Australia) When I was working with Air France, Bombay, in 1970s, a young couple walked in one Saturday morning.  I was at the Ticket Counter, City Office, Stadium House in Churchgate opposite Lufthansa Bombay Office. They held Flight tickets to leave that evening for Paris on some other Airline’s Charter Flight  and wanted these accepted by Air France.  They had come to India to adopt an infant, but the Indian Government’s interminable Paperwork had not been completed. They wanted to know if Air France would accept these on the following Monday...
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    MY MYSTERIOUS MOTHER: BEAUTY QUEEN, REBEL LEADER, NATIONAL ICON by Charmaine Craig

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    MY MYSTERIOUS MOTHER: BEAUTY QUEEN, REBEL LEADER, NATIONAL ICON CHARMAINE CRAIG ON THE AMAZING LIFE AND TIMES OF LOUISA BENSON CRAIG This article was posted by Charmaine Craig on Literary Hub. I do not speak Burmese, yet I understand from my late mother that pon is one of those Burmese words that are impossible to translate. “Power. Wisdom. Karma. Insight,” she once explained to me cryptically. “When your pon is elevated, you think on an elevated plane—very little about yourself, and always about others.” She hesitated. “Pon can also mean memory. You were born with too much of this type.”...
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    Follow your dreams by Cecil Wagstaff

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    Follow your Dreams By Cecil Wagstaff (Australia) What does a derelict Tennis Court at the Corner of York & Sule Pagoda Roads, Rangoon, with an enormous mango tree growing next to it, in the 1950’s, later developed and a Cinema & Hotel development (The Thamada, Or The President) Cinema, the original 1937 Version of a movie of the James Hilton Book ‘Lost Horizon’ by Frank Capra, an extraordinary Teacher of Geography at the Methodist English High School or M.E.H.S., in Rangoon, a Teacher, Daw Lily Hein Tin,  who inspired two schoolboys whom she taught and instilled an immense appreciation of...
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    The Foundaions laid by Our Respected Principal Mrs. Doreen Logie’s by Cecil Wagstaff

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    The Foundaions laid by Our Respected Principal Mrs. Doreen Logie’s  Another  True Story in The Life & Times of this Reprobate …………….only there was a break of several Years in between the related events: In the year 1975/77,  I was working with an  Airline at Bombay Airport A certain First Officer on one of our flights made an innocent mistake which led to some pretty serious consequences and could have required our Flight to be seriously delayed  The issue involved a breach of Customs Regulations, and could have also cost my Airline hundred of thousands of Dollars with passengers Costs,...
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    An Ode in Appreciation of Our Dear Ole ‘M.E.H.S. by Cecil Wagstaff

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    An  Ode in Appreciation of Our Dear Ole ‘ M.E.H.S. A Debt We students can n’er Repay   Methodist English High School Yes, Indeed, we are “Proud of Thee” If it was not for M.E.H.S., where would any of us be?   A Rhetorical Question, perhaps? Yes, Us Blokes, Guys, Gals, Ladies & Chaps Would NOT be where we are,  WE would NOT have gone very far  So only thanks to the Education we received From our many Teachers who with and their help, achieve  And  we could make something of ourselves Pursuing our Youthful Ambitions on then on to Better...
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    THE HAND OF FRIENDSHIP FROM A STRANGER, in The Australia Outback (Broken Hill N.S.W ) by Cecil Wagstaff

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     My TRUE Story: I arrived at BHQ Airport on a Flight from Adelaide to connect to SYD with several (six) hours to wait for my onward flight  I was in the Airport Waiting Area reading, when a gentleman approached me. He advised me that it was customary to close the Airport as no one was there till an hour before my SYD Flight Departure He was operating the Helicopter which was taking a Nurse further into the Outback, and would not return till very much later that evening.  He also owned and operated of Café at the Airport, which was...
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    MEHS History As Told by Frank E. Manton and Karis B. Manton

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       by Thomas B. Manton     In the beginning… Frank Ernest Manton was born on Sept. 4, 1901 in East Liverpool, Ohio to Thomas C. Manton, Sr. and Fanny Manton. He was a graduate of East Liverpool High School and then worked in the steel mills, which were a part of the City along the Ohio River. After several years of working, Frank enrolled, along with his older brother Albert, in Ohio Wesleyan University in the famous Class of 1927. He and Albert were very active in sports and music, and both of them were members of the famous Ohio...

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