deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

Malaysia. A Federal Constitutional Monarchy in Southeast Asia. Another country colonized first by Portugal, then The Dutch and finally ‘stolen’ by Great Britain. After it gained it’s independence from the English in 1957, it reorganized as The Federation of Malay. The name “Malaysia” is a combination of the word “Malays” and the Latin-Greek suffix “-ia“/”-ία“which…

The greatest realm of Men in the West of Middle-earth at the end of the third age: Gondor. J.R.R Tolkien named it Gondor which translates in his fictional language as ‘Land of Stone’. Gondor was founded by the brothers Isildur and Anarion. From a once powerful place it fell into ruins due to allies of…

That is what happens when you start going through your Mom’s stuff. I am thinking…this is a keeper.

The Republic of Kiribati, an independent island nation composed of islands, atolls and coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati is another place where despite there being humans there for thousands of years, once England found it to be of strategic importance it well…took it. It was a good port to stop at while in…

A country within a country, it is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south: Wales. It has an ancient history with human activity for at least 29,000 years. It has a long and occasionally tense relationship with Great Britain. It is…

The Royal Banner of Scotland. Also called the Red Rampant Lion Flag. It represents the Royal (Monarchy) Family of Scotland. Scotland is a country within the United Kingdom, covering the northern third of Great Britain. It is a difficult concept for us in the US to think about a country within a country. The name…

New York (City) Police Department. NYPD is the largest and one of the oldest municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees. The NYPD was established in 1845, and today, is responsible for policing an 8.5-million-person city, by performing a wide variety of public safety, law enforcement, traffic…

Today I fly the branch of service I was a member of: The US Army. The flag has a blue replica of the seal of the War Office [above the seal is a snake spitting out a ribbon with the words: This We’ll Defend] all on a white field with a red ribbon underneath with…

Surdists United. Surdists United, Inc. (SU) was originally founded in 2014 by a group of Deaf View/Image Art De’VIA ARTivists under the name of DeArtivists United (D^AU). This was done in honor of the 25th anniversary and in recognition of Surdism and the 2nd wave of De’VIA, which takes De’VIA into the classrooms and out…