I was looking at my blog site and noticed that I completed a blog on April 26 and never posted it. So this will confuse many, but transpose what you saw earlier today and insert this one for that day. I hate to say this, but our Canadian National Railway 12-day trip could have some serious internet problems, but keep returning to see what pops up. Then again, I've had larger problems in my global journeys, so all might well be fine, Here is what I said nine years ago about Toronto. TRANS CANADA: Day 9--Toronto Toronto : Home to indigenous peoples for 10,000 years. Population of 6 million ( #5 in North America ), where 47.5% were foreign-born ( in 2006, 49.9% came from other countries) More people speak a Chinese dialect than French Is pronounced with the second T silent. Attracts 25 million tourists/year ( Hawaii: 9 million ). Major professional sports teams Toronto Maple Leafs ( hockey )--won 13 Stanley Cups Toronto Blue Jays ( basebal l)--two World Series Toron...
First, the news of the day. Al Jazeera says excessive U.S. demands led to failure of talks. BBC indicated that oil prices are rising? Are they? Checking American WTI crude for the past month, the price seems to have recently stabilized in the mid $95/barrel range. Interesting that European Brent Crude prices are now around $12/barrel higher than the WTI price . The other newsworthy item is that the 2-hour marathon threshold was finally attained, twice. The first marathon over the official distance was won by American Johnny Hayes at the 1908 Summer Olympics , with a time of 2:55:18.4. [ 17 ] This distance of 26 miles plus 385 yards was established in 1921. Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya lowered the record in the 2011 Boston Marathon to 2:03:02, followed by countryman Moses Mosoc in 2:03:06. In 2019, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge ran a specially tailored race in Vienna called the .50 Challenge, arranged by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe....