Rasma Raisters
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My passions are writing and creating poetry. I write for several sites online and have four themed blogs on Wordpress. Please follow me on Twitter.
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Delicious Food in Champagne and Lorraine
Food in Champagne In the Champagne region of France, you can find all different kinds of French food in their restaurants. Since this region borders with Belgium then you’ll also find lots of Flemish dishes as well. Champagne bases its food on game which is plentiful since this region is France’s largest game hunting ground. Recipes are based on venison, rabbit, boar, and pheasant.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
Enjoying Food in Scotland
I have always felt that the best way to get to know people from different countries is by learning about what they like to eat. We all know our own eating habits and pretty much can say what other people in our country prefer or don’t prefer but we cannot know what people in foreign countries like to eat. Let’s take a look at Scotland. The Scots prefer to have a very full breakfast which, of course, counts as the most important meal of the day but which a lot of busy people tend to pass by.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
Eating the Latvian Way
The traditional kinds of Latvian foods include pork. However, today there are people who eat more chicken, fish, and even those who have become vegetarian. Restaurants in Riga offer many different cuisines but if you want traditional then you must look for those that offer Latvian cuisine.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
The Haunting of Washington DC
Lincoln’s Ghost An address people know well is The White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW the home of America’s presidents. There have been many presidents, who while residing in the White House have expressed feeling somehow strongly connected to past presidents especially to the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln. Some of the reasons behind this might be that Lincoln met with an untimely and violent death and his spirit has returned to the White House. His wife Mary Todd Lincoln, once held séances in the Green Room to try to contact her dead son, Willie. After her husband’s death, she also tried contacting him and at one time felt she had succeeded.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Horror
Shining Star Janis Joplin
To tell others about a talent like Janis Joplin is like trying to explain a moonbeam that is here and then so quickly gone again. She had talent, amazing talent, but as the fates would have it, she was gone much too soon. I watched a documentary about her because I was interested and I watched her appearing on the Dick Cavett Show. I realized then and there that she was a most fascinating individual and rather eccentric too.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
This is a tragic tale involving Rory Storm who was an English musician and vocalist. He was born in 1938 as Alan Caldwell in Liverpool but took the name Storm and became the singer and leader of a Liverpool band known as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Actually, one of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, was the drummer for the Hurricanes before he met the other three.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were two real-life brothers Isaac Donald “Don” Everly and Phillip “Phil” Everly who played rock and roll songs with a kind of American country flair. They had lots of very touching songs which just made you want to sing along. They were best known for their steel-guitar playing and close harmony singing. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. The great harmony singing of the brothers strongly influenced other rock groups of the 1960s including Simon & Garfunkle, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles who developed their early singing styles doing performances using Everly covers.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
Robert Ackermann the Cannibal of Vienna
When Robert Ackermann was 19, he left his native city of Cologne, Germany and by August of 2007, he was staying in Vienna, Austria in short-term housing for the mentally ill and homeless that was run by a private charity. At the facility, he shared a room with Josef Schweiger who was 49 and had been living at the facility since June. It was amazing that Ackermann’s behavior and his feuds with his roommate didn’t alarm weekly social workers, but the neighbors on the family-filled tenement block were certainly worried about Ackermann’s behavior. They had argued with the disturbed Ackermann, had seen him crawling naked through the yard howling at the moon, or dumping what appeared to be blood from his window. They realized that this teen was quite dangerous.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
The Music of B.J. Thomas
This incredible singer who’s had many popular hits is called Billy Joe Thomas, better known to his fans as B.J. Thomas. He’s an American singer who's charted on pop, country, and Christian charts. His most popular hits came out in the 1960s and 1970s.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
The Axeman of New Orleans
On May 22, 1918 the world was still in the grips of WWI. In New Orleans, a barber named Andrew Maggio had just gotten his draft notice and decided that a night’s good drinking was in order. Returning home to the place Andrew shared with his brother, Jake, he noticed nothing unusual. He was also in no condition to determine if anything was amiss. Andrew and Jake’s rooms adjoined the home of their married brother, Joseph and his wife Catherine.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
It Was Easy Come, Easy Go
The title simply refers to a popular song by Bobby Sherman, who came into this world as Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr. on July 22, 1943. When the world was crazy for teen idols, he caught the eye of many teen girls and became a teen idol through the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. He is a talented American singer, actor, and sometimes, songwriter. Knowing that he could sing and capture a girl’s heart only added to his charm.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat