The historic thread of thought that one's life is ordained by the God or fate has never really disappeared.

But I've rarely heard that sort of thinking from native Americans and Canadians. It's got something to do with the influences of the American Puritanism, I just guess.

The combination of chicken and onions make relatively good toppings for pizza.

Antsy for the summer, the sun hangs out in the sky.

The historic sinking of the legendary Tudor warship Mary Rose is sort of reminiscent of how complexities encumber and even fail the continuous operation and deployment of large software systems.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose#Causes_of_sinking .

By the way, the Mary Rose warship of Tudor has a romantic name, doesn't it?

Which lingua franca will the increasing internationalization of Montreal lead to?