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AU BONHEUR DES DAMES is a novel by Emile Zola set in the world of the department store in nineteenth-century Paris. It covers the period approximately from 1864 to 1869 and it’s the eleventh novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macqart series. From Zola’s original manuscript for Au Bonheur des Dames When Zola was writing Au Bonheur des […]
Walking through the Chambers Street IRT station on the West Side not long ago, I noticed these tile subway signs, pointing riders in the right direction to the 1, 2, and 3 trains. The station itself opened in 1918, and the signs look a lot newer than that. It’s kind of nice that the old-school […]
via The old-school subway signs at Chambers Street — Ephemeral New York
barcelona, 2018 william shatner – common people (click,hear)
Not many sports can trace their origin as decisively as basketball: Fans know the first game was played on December 21, 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. But few Americans are aware that the oldest surviving basketball court is in Paris, inside an unassuming building at 14, rue Trévise in the 9th arrondissement. The entrance, in a […]
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Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2018
Salzburg Altstadt – Mülln
Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2018
In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]
via looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
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