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Every Picture Tells a Story…

2m40 (“Un blog impactant”) is devoted to chronicling the problems that develop when truckers fail to heed the warning sign at the mouth of one of Paris’ tunnels.  The site is in French…  but then, the pictures do speak for themselves.

As we watch our heads, we might recall that it was on this date in 187 that the Mobro, a garbage barge, left Islip, Long Island, on what turned into a six-month odyssey.  It stopped in several other states and three other countries, looking for a place to dump the 3,200 tons of garbage it was carrying– but was turned away each time.  Eventually, it sailed back to Islip, where space was found.

source: Macrobuddies

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March 22, 2010 at 2:02 am

Sunday at the Opera with Enrico…

From the Caruso Archive in Denmark, a set of digitally-remastered recordings of Enrico Caruso, “The Golden Voice of the Century,” available for free download.

Bravo!

As we clear our throats, we might wish feliz cumpleaños to Caruso’s (rough) contemporary, Pablo Picasso, born on this date in 1881…

Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon (l to r) in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1916

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October 25, 2009 at 12:01 am