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The Tower Bridge - London - UK

UK: Visting Tower Bridge – North & South Towers – East & West Walkways! (1.8.2026)

Of course, the bridge was never designed to be a tourist attraction per se – but it certainly is today – replete with a glass-floor on each of the two towers. Climbing the 209-steps-up essentially culminates in the traversing of the two towers – “North” and the “South” which are 213-feet above the water of the River Thames. Along the side of the Walls are arranged historical write-ups about this or that fact. For instance, a “bail of hay” has to hung beneath the arms of the bridge when these arms are not in operation and/or receiving repair.

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The Wyles Family at London Bridge!

UK: The “Engine Room” of London’s Tower Bridge! (1.8.2026)

We visited Tower Bridge on Friday July 31st, 2026. Oddly, none of us had visited this iconic site before. The Engine Room is around a hundred foot or so from the bridge proper (we actually visited the bridge proper – before we approached the Engine Room) – and features the original turbines that lifted the bridge up and down. Although the engineers that built the bridge received ridiculously good wages – the everyday workers who kept the bridge functioning safely on a daily basis received nothing like as good pay. Still, the engine is said to be similar to those found in ships like the Titanic.

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Díaz-Canel to Parliament: Cuba changes to get up, to live better, to continue being free

Cuba: Parliament – Díaz-Canel – “Cuba Adapts to Stand-Taller, to Live-Better, to Continue Being-Free”! (20.6.2026)

Due to its high human value, an idea was shared by the Head of State at the closing of the day of analysis: “On a day like today,” he stressed, “in which we remember with particular emotion and nostalgia dear Vilma, a woman who was a clandestine and guerrilla fighter, innovative engineer, founder of spaces and policies for the promotion and defense of women’s rights in Cuba and the rest of the world, at the request of comrade Teresa, secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women, and other women who have called our attention to the need to protect and promote their advances, on behalf of the Party and the Government, I confirm the commitment to pay special attention to ensure that there is never a setback in the policies for the advancement of Cuban women, when implementing the new economic and social measures”.

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Cuba: Presidential Statement on Fuel Shortages! (13.5.2036)

A small group of ultra-rightists who have hijacked the policy towards Cuba and lie or deliberately and cynically misinform about the Cuban reality, while demanding more suffocation and threats against our people, fear this improvement.

Our response remains the same: always willing to dialogue on equal terms, we will continue to resist and create, convinced more and more that it is up to us to overcome the enormous difficulties with our own efforts, united as a nation, and firm to face the most difficult challenges.

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Rise Up Workers of the World!

UK: Thank You Lenin & Stalin! Thank You USSR! Thank You Russia! (9.5.2026)

I will never forget the working class hope the USSR granted the world! If the USSR did not exist – the fascists would have won WWII and we would be studying Trotskyism, worshipping the Pope, and speaking German! No thank you! Lenin and Stalin led the working class in the right direction and only the hopelessly oppressed do not realise this to be true! This anthem was first played on the battlefield in 1944 as the Soviet Red Army left Soviet territory and headed into the lands of the allies of Nazi Germany – heading resolutely toward Berlin. Millions upon millions would die for the freedom of you snd I! We must stand to attention today when the Parade of the Immortals begins in Moscow (10am). Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurah!

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