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Cool Internet sites

Cool Internet Sites

Bacalao con Tomate

http://spanishfood.about.com/od/maincourses/r/bacalaotomate.htm

This codfish cake recipe from comes from Spain, and includes tomato sauce like many versions of bacalao do.

Brats: Our Journey Home

http://www.bratsourjourneyhome.com/

With music and narration by Kris Kristofferson and the participation of Hudson Phillips, who frequently contributes to The Panama News, this is the first documentary about US military dependents and the ways that they grow up on bases around the world. In many respects it’s analogous and instructive for State Department families as well.

Christmas in Ireland

http://www.irishclans.com/articles/irish_christmas.html

There has never been an Irish pope, but the effect of Irish culture on Catholicism in the Americas --- particularly but not only North America --- is and has been profound. And what would have happened in Panamanian history had Simón Bolívar not had that band of hardcore Irish revolutionaries at his side when he retreated into the Venezuelan wilderness, crossed the Andes and took Bogota by surprise?

Panacines.com

http://www.panacines.com/

In Spanish, this website is a guide to the movies, many of them in English, that are playing in Panama. It's a long overdue service that helps eliminate a void that the daily print newspapers have been unable to properly fill.

Santa Claus Naughty or Nice

http://www.claus.com/naughtyornice/index.php

Be advised, all you rotten little monsters out there --- a lump of coal is particularly useless in Panama, and the switches that this guy hands out are not of the computer game microprocessor sort. On this website you can check on your status, but it’s kind of late in the year to change your grades. Don't even think about bushwhacking Santa if you are judged and found wanting. He might be elderly and overweight, but some of his duendes are exceptionally mean dudes.