Located in the heart of Northern Siberia, sitting deep inside the Arctic permafrost, lies Norilsk, one of the northernmost inhabited cities in the world. Norilsk is Russia’s most polluted city. It’s nearly completely isolated, restricted from tourists, cannot be reached by road, and was built on the ruins of a forced labor camp. It inhabits…
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Season 4 Episode 4 The Ticket: Newman uses Kramer as his witness when the former refuses to pay for a speeding ticket. Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life’s most…
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His voluptuous figures, both in paintings and in sculpture, portrayed the high and mighty as well as everyday people through an enlarging prism. Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on…
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The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion. By Ellie Duke Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch Sutton Lynch rises most days before the sun, arriving at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett, N.Y., for the early-morning calm. It’s…
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In search of a half-remembered passage among the French writer’s voluminous work, I turned to AI to help me find it. The results were instructive – just not about Proust by Elif Batuman The other day, I was looking for a quote in Proust, so I thought I would ask ChatGPT. Here’s how it went. EB: Is…
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“Time” is the most frequently used noun in the English language. We all know what it feels like as time passes. Our present becomes the past as soon as it’s happened; today soon turns into yesterday. If you live in a temperate climate, each year you see the seasons come and go. And as we…
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Título: Adiós Nonino – Autor: Ástor Piazzolla – Bandoneón: Néstor Marconi – Guitarra: Esteban Falabella – Violín: Pablo Agri – Contrabajo: Juan Pablo Navarro – Piano: Leonardo Marconi – Grabado en: Café Vinilo – Fecha: 23/3/2016 – Realización Tangotrazo® Muy agradecido x este material que me fue cedido x la gente de tango trazo e…
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They are sailor’s out looking for a good time with two young lovelies. Stan and Ollie are out to impress, they intend to buy drinks (in a soda fountain) for everyone, but Stan only has 15 cents, enough for 3 sodas. Sodas were 5 cents in 1929! Here is Jimmy Finlayson doing several of his…
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