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Gained Weight While You’re in Taiwan? Five Numbers To Get You Back On Course

Text: Kenneth Dickson – Photos: Author and web(First published in Centered on Taipei Magazine, but no longer available at their website.) Obesity creeps up on you, caused by a sedentary lifestyle, poor food choices, or aging body. Slowly the pounds accumulate around your waist from the extra portions of stirfried rice, late night trips to the…

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Does Gaelic predate the Vikings? Not in Scotland

Norse influence definitely predated Scots Gaelic. Moreover, the Kingdom of Dal Riata doesn’t seem to have overlapped significantly with early Viking settlements in the Isles, North and East. Though there was competition between them & Dal Riata and of course, the Pictish people who predominated in other areas of Scotland. And of course, the Kingdom…