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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Friday, December 12, 2025

Natzweiler: The Only Nazi Death Camp in France

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  Natzweiler-Struthof was the only major Nazi concentration camp built on French soil, perched high in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace . Its...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Anselm Kiefer in the Panthéon--The first major new art installation in the Pantheon in a century

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  I returned to the Panthéon after previous visits over the past decade, to see the first new art exhibit in crypt of the Republic in a ce...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Medusa in Caen, France

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  At the Musee Beaux Arts in Caen, France, is a temporary exhibit of art about Medusa.  She is the terrifying Gorgon of Greek myth with snak...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Conferences are Soooooo Much Better in Person. Zoom and Hybrid are a Different Event.

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La Maison de la Chimie, Paris At the beginning of June, I went to a Science and Diplomacy conference hosted by  La Maison de la Chimie, Pari...
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When a Plan (or a Bone) Breaks, My Mind is Alive with 'What's Next?"

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Yesterday, I checked in for a flight from Paris to Rome, started my train trip to the airport, and got a message saying the flight was cance...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Laundromats Have Tourists Again!

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  Amy, Lee, Jane and John American tourists are back in laundromats in Europe Five years ago, I started making trips across Europe and Israe...

Matthew Adamson on Academic Career Paths and the Interplay of Maps and Reality

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  At a conference on the history of science and diplomacy in Paris , Matthew Adamson talked about the history of uranium exploration and min...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Where Does Politics End? On Earth? How Far Into Space?

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Gloria Maritza Gomez Revuelta,  a PhD candidate at  El Colegio de Mexico At the conference on science diplomacy since World War II, one fas...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Science Diplomacy Conference in Paris at La Maison de la Chimie

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  Maison de la Chimie, Paris On June 13 and 14, I attended a conference on science and diplomacy in Paris at the Maison de la Chimie .  The ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Ukrainian in Paris Talks About Her Family

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  I walked around a corner onto Boulevard St. Germain and saw a sign saying that the little park behind the fence had been part of a refugee...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Back to LeMans: another look at a the greatest endurance race course

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Part of my visit to France in February was a long walk around the race course at Circuit de Sarthe where the 24-hour race at LeMans is held....