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  Bill Pagano Pictured is a Lancia I built in 1958. That’s me in the driver’s seat. Loved racing! Bill Pagano Pictured is a Lancia I built in 1958. That’s me in the driver’s seat. Loved racing! MINE IS a long story. However, I will try and write a bit at a time. I am 85 years old but thank God my memory is still perfect. My father was born in Italy in 1912 and my mother in 1915. I was born in 1935.   My father had to join Mussolini’s Italian Army in 1939, just before my sister was born, he was sent to Africa and later taken prisoner in Asmara, Ethiopia. The British and the Allies captured thousands of Italian soldiers in North-Eastern Africa and elsewhere. Of these, some 55,000 Italian POWs were sent to 11-camps (all built hastily) in Kenya. He was held captive in Naivasha, in the Rift Valley, around 90 km from Nairobi (beautiful area). At the end of the war, he had managed to get a job with a Mr Taylor in Kinangop, in what is today Nyandarua County.   ( T...

The last photo of the Titanic before she went down A dapper young Winston Churchill The Golden Gate Bridge under construction Buzz Aldrin attempting selfie Archaeologist Howard Carter open King Tut's casket Cologne Cathedral after the bombing raids, great efforts were made to avoid it Mount Rushmore, early days Anne Frank, peeping out   That famous shot of Ernest Hemingway at the Havana Bar The oldest car in circulation Queen (Princess) Elizabeth Fidel Castro with Malcolm X Stars Wars ... lunch William Harley and Arthur Davidson The Last Kiss thanks to my friend P>D> copyright The Douglas County Genealogical Society

Images courtesy of Planet D EVOLUTION TRANSFORMS THE G A L A P A G O S ISLANDS By ARMAND RODRIGUES   So you think that because you have been to the National Parks or wildlife habitats in places like Africa, Madagascar , Australia , Indonesia , India or Brazil , you have seen it all.   Think again.   In all these, animals are as afraid of humans as humans are of them. In stark contrast, the Galapagos Islands have spawned amazing creatures that show no fear of man, and getting within touching distance of each other, comes with the territory. Since the archipelago belongs to ECUADOR , it is fitting to use it as a launching pad en route. Ecuador is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world.   It is the only place on earth where the Equator crosses high peaks – the Andes .   Indians were the original inhabitants and could to trace their ancestry back 8,000 to 3,500 B.C. Choco and Tumbesian in Ecuador are the world’s only two endemic (found n...

  My old mate, Mick Parry, from our days together on the Daily Nation , (Many of you will  remember him also from his days at the East African Standard, especially his coverage of the East African Safari and other stories) has asked me to share this memory: A look back in time… the Mombasa road sometime in 1963 and four young men are heading back to Nairobi. Probably the beer we drank was warm – we did not know much about ice coldies back then. Somewhere along the memorable track that was the link between capital to coast, we stopped for a pee break and, as someone with a camera, I propped the wonky Waltzflex in a position to capture us all. Call us Kenya cowboys but the hats from some Mombasa market give us a Mexican look!  Almost 60 years have passed since that moment but, thanks to the magic of film, it can be looked at again and can recapture memories of youth. Sadly, I am the only survivor. That’s me on the left. My Kenya mates have all passed on – Jeff and Vic B...

  THE VANISHING PEOPLE OF THE RED OCHRE The ground is called laterite and is a clay which has been enriched with Iron and aluminium that has been developed over long periods of time by the heavy rainfalls and the intense heat. Sometimes the material is rock hard but when scuffed by vehicle wheels it becomes a choking red dust. The iron is the origin of the redness is a rusty colour. – Jack Hill.   FOR a long time, I have been writing and talking about our East African DNA. Most Europeans will tell you of their love for their Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania history’s past is “in the blood.” I have always interpreted that the critical element in the DNA is red dust which we breathed in, swallowed it with the raging wind or soaked our bodies with it helped along by those gorgeous rains. I have always loved that red dust from as long as I can remember growing up, first in the city of Nairobi and then in semi-rural (to start with) Eastleigh and its neighbouring environs. We walked mo...

  NOT TO BE MISSED We might not ever see all of these things in our lifetime if it were not for the Internet and photography. Ceiling over St. Mary's Altar, Krakow , Poland                                                                                             Corsica, France     Queen Victoria Clock in Chester, England     Prague Secluded beach Amalfi Coast, Italy     River Seine, Paris     Milan, zodiac sundial, 1768 created by the Accademia di Brera -Summer solstice the rays strike the bronze on the floor and for Winter solstice it stretches to the meridian.     Assos, Kefalonia Island, Greece     Millau Viaduct, France     Switchback Mountain, Tianman Hwy, China   Light...