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Tested positive for the virus or for the vaccine???

With bookdepository.com the key question is, when you want to place an order, what does it say on their website about deliveries? There was a moment last year when postal services and deliveries to and from Argentina were suspended by everybody - including The Book Depository. Then, although...

If I want new books delivered to Argentina, I order them from bookdepository.com who despatch them free of charge and (touch wood, etc., etc.) they have always got there - eventually. I've no recent experience of personally mailed packages as we generally try to avoid them.

I totally get where @lunar is coming from and yes, it happens today and it used to happen in the UK not that long ago. Those plaques on the front of Victorian and pre-Victorian houses in English towns and villages? Lots of them have Sun emblems representing the Sun Insurance Company of the day...

..... now continuing to Beijing on the same flight number but with a different link on Flightradar24 https://www.flightradar24.com/ARG1050/26e74d1e

I think you will find that it's an Airbus A330 registration LV-GIF which departed from EZE for MAD at 13.08 under flight number AR1050. It's the same aircraft that was previously used for other vaccine pickups. You can track it now here: https://www.flightradar24.com/ARG1050/26e5c1d0 And see...

Further to @rickulivi the point is about taking money in or out of any given country. The USA sets a limit of USD10,000 before you have to declare it, divided between the people traveling together as a group. Check out this article in the LA Times...

If all the virus particles from all the humans currently infected were put together in one place, how much would that be? Enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool? Enough to fill a bath tub? What do you think? In this nine-minute podcast from the BBC, two mathematicians grapple with the...

Any truth in the rumour that last night's storm over the city was an argument between heaven and hell over who will have to take him?

I read a version of that article when it appeared in the New York Times. I can't find the companion article about an outbreak predominantly in Business Class but I have found the paper that it was based on here: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-3299_article. My reading of that paper is...

Thanks for highlighting that @sergio and yes, @Ries it is good. It's in provincia but just walking distance from our corner of CABA. We have been several times in past years and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in that sort of thing - and even to those that aren't.

But are Spanish-speakers as a bloc that interested in playing computer games? Take any of the many top-ten listings of game-playing nations: the lists are all different but none of them have any Spanish-speaking country near the top. I personally do not know any computer gamers in Argentina -...

I think the tradition in Argentina is/used to be to give a child a lollipop on a stick after a vaccination. I found this out last (Argentine) winter when, after receiving my flu and pneumonia shots and to the great amusement of the rest of the family, I too was presented with a lolly!

Hesperidina. So quintessentially Argentine that those who haven't forgotten about it probably never knew about it in the first place. You are most likely to find it on sale in a grocery store where the local demographic is - how can I put this delicately? - elderly...