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Eiffel Tower: Hateful Column of Bolted Iron?
Gustave Eiffel's hateful column of bolted iron has attracted more than 200 million visitors and celebrated its 120th birthday in March 2009. (EyesWideOpen/Getty Images) Last week I had the pleasure of...
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Top 5 Underground Stomping Grounds: Catacombs, Paris
The Type A way these bones and skulls have been organized is a little unsettling. (istock/StijnteStrake) Here’s a weird place for a movie theater: an underground tunnel system that contains, among...
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History Podcast Roundup: Walking Cheetahs Down the Seine, Sewing Diamonds...
When I dance, it’s not usually with bananas around my waist, but I am not Josephine Baker. That’s how she made her splash in Paris before becoming the toast of town, but that’s not all there is to Ms....
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One of the coolest, most outrageous ideas on the drawing board – the...
I’ve been working on an article on High Speed Rail (HSR) this week. In normal terms, High Speed Rail means 200 km/hr (130 miles per hour) and greater. But in researching it, I came across this idea,...
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Jet Lag Makes You Dumb and Dumber
Jet lag making it hard for you to remember which French pastry is tastiest? (Robert George Young/Getty Images) If you feel stupider when you’re jet lagged, it’s because you are. A recent scientific...
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3D Trip through a Medieval Cave System — Right Here
Some cities like Paris, Rome and Budapest are well-known for the catacombs carved beneath. Another city, Nottingham, home of Robin Hood, is less famous for its system of caves, though its been getting...
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History Class with David McCullough
Notre Dame, a central location in David McCullough's latest book (© iStockphoto.com/contour99) Listeners love a good history book recommendation, but it’s not every day we devote a whole podcast to one...
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What Travel Sounds Like
I adore this Vimeo video by Gioacchino Petronicce. He puts a microphone right up to the mouth of those background sounds you hear while you’re traveling, but sorta don’t notice. That is, until one day...
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Eiffel Tower to Become Tree?
If this thing becomes a tree, it's going to be a very big one. (David Sutherland/Getty Images) OK — so, right now this is just a big idea, not an approved plan. But a French consulting company released...
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A Wall of “I Love Yous”
Le Mur des Je T'aime (Flickr/ConstantineD/Creative Commons License) Here’s the story: In 1992, an artist named Frederic Baron decided to collect “I love yous” from non-French-speaking strangers on the...
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