Maëlle Baudry tells us about “Djerbahood”, a unique experience she has just discovered : Djerbahood is a humanitarian project, based on the houses of Djerba, a Tunisian island. Medhi Ben Cheikh, the director of this project, decided to call street artists...
... has just died (June 26, 2015): he was 93 but he will remain as the typically English dandy. He was world famous as John Steed, Her Majesty’s intelligence agent in the serial “The Avengers” (French : “Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir”) Why English?...
Inspired by New York homeless people’s Street News, The Big Issue was founded in 1991 (John Bird and Gordon Roddick) in reaction against UK's growing numbers of homeless people, and is now the world’s most widely circulated street newspaper. The Body...
DULCE PINZON is a Brooklyn-based Mexican artist’s work : In the post-9/11 context, this photographer aims to reconsider the notion of what a hero is. Of course the word itself was more and more frequent in conversation, as it was necessary to qualify...
(Saint Martin in the Fields) William Logsdail ( British artist, born 1859 - died 1944) Born in Lincoln, England, in 1859, William Logsdail was a successful genre painter of seascapes and town views. He was taught by Taylor at the Lincoln Academy and continued...
One French engraver, born in Nantes, is almost better known in the British Isles than he is in France : his name is J.E. Laboureur (1877 - 1943). Although little interested in the army, he was recruited by the Translation and interpretation corps in the...
Credit : BK Magazine March 1, 2007, (1000 x 609) Her name was Rojjana Phetkanha, but everyone called her 'YUI'. She started her life as a child working in the ricefields of Thailand, helping her poor family with their difficult work. She was so beautiful...
You were born after 1980 and have your own "dialect". Same in the U.S. So if you hear one of the following words, you've got a chance to be talking to a "millennial": - adulting is the new word for growing up (less dramatic, I suppose !) - bigly is a...
Here's a a great artist you could see in the streets of Nantes and Angers. This British opera-singer is a contralto who plays Olga in Tchaikovski's Eugen Onegin. Her voice is exceptionally rich in tone and colour, her acting is perfect, mobile and sensuous....
Both a dwelling and a world-famous sightseeing place, Buckingham Palace has remained, long after the British Empire disappeared, the symbol of monarchy. « The Queen doesn’t rule but reigns », meaning her power is all influential in character. Buckingham...
The term "brownstone" is used to refer to a particular stone, but in the United States, also to refer to a terraced house ( / rowhouse) clad in this material (Fr.: maison de grès) Some Manhattan neighbourhoods retain many brownstones. New York City brownstones...
An article in the Baltimore Sun dated Feb. 6th, 1998 is dedicated to [Fr.: consacré à] Freed’s photo of King's visit to Baltimore on Oct. 31, 1964. Dan Rodricks reports : “Among the Baltimoreans reaching for Martin Luther King Jr.'s hand in Leonard Freed's...
The "Umbrella Revolution" in HongKong (September 2014) The “umbrella revolution” took place in Hong-Kong streets in September 2014. It illustrates the attempt at citizen empowerment in a country where the individual is crushed by mass and an invisible...
San Francisco City Hall is lit up in blue-white-red in tribute to the victims of Nov. 14th's Paris terror attacks (15/11/14). >>>>> See other English-language cities' reactions using this URL-address : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nC7e-rAQ...
At the time Chicago's Sears tower was constructed in 1974, it was the world's tallest building, a title it lost when the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were constructed (1997). [Note: The height of the antennas on the Petronas towers...
Approaching NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) The New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street is in no way a political form of power; indeed one of the smallest streets in NYC is home to the vital centre of financial decisions; traders, shareholders of multinationals...
WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP ? Dear London friends, dear Londoners, You are a marvellous people, everyone is hard put to be more welcoming than you are, and yet, once again, blind terror has struck. We know it won't have the last word but still ... . Today we...
Jan 7, 2014 : Grieving with Charlie Hebdo This is a store on rue Daguerre in south Paris . The signs bear the names of the victims and "en deuil avec Charlie Hebdo" (grieving with Charlie Hebdo). Sent via Guardian Witness Source : http://www.theguard...
The trial of Socrates (399 BC) occurred in the Heliaea, a popular tribunal, located at the bottom of Athens’s Agora. The heliastes (judges) mistook Socrates for a sophist (in a time when the sophists were commonly blamed for the defeat in the Peloponneses...
ALBERT C. BARNES (1872 – 1951) ... was an art-collector, a philanthropist; Barnes is also famous for his long-enduring friendship with philosopher John DEWEY (1859-1952) Albert C. Barnes was born in a working-class family; the family lived in a hard,...
Needing rapid communication, the companies built telegraph lines along the railroad. The linkage made these lines easier to protect and maintain than the original First Transcontinental Telegraph lines In addition to track laying (which typically employed...
Did you know about that ? Just a few miles from the Spanish border, right under Mount Canigou there is a Catalan village who has been, for over a century, a haven for visitors from the UK. It boasts a Church of England chapel, and was a usual Spring and...
The Upper Florentine valley in Tasmania (Australia) ... (touringtasmania.info; 400 x 512 jpg) ... is near Maydena in the South West of the island, roughly 3 hours’ drive from Hobart and covers 60 km2 of temperate rainforest. It lies just outside the World...
(Based on:) http://www.historyaccess.com/juliusandethelro.html In 1951, the Rosenbergs were found guilty in a federal courtroom of conspiring to commit espionage. Judge Irving R. Kaufman sentenced them to die, saying they had stolen America’s most precious...
A abso lue (avoir l'oreille a-...) : to be pitch-perfect être en accord total avec qqn to see eye to eye with somebody. pour l'amour de l'art : as a labour of love B C reprendre la balle au bond make hay while the sun shines. Je tombe sur la boîte vocale...
