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Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

No through road

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This is an interesting take on graffiti on road signs.  I've posted some Parisian road sign graffiti before , but this is a new one on m...
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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

More Parisian Graffiti

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I have often featured interesting graffiti on Something Surprising .  Near the Pompidou Centre in Paris is this amazing face painted on a w...
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Monday, 12 August 2013

Physics on the Metro

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Have you ever spotted how the air moves on metro trains? On ordinary trains with short carriages there is often a flow of air through the ...
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Sunday, 11 August 2013

Hale and Hearty

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Enjoying a visit to Paris, I like to spot words in French that have obviously migrated into English. Eiffel Tower - just before it was e...
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Saturday, 10 August 2013

Liberty - for the week

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I'm away, enjoying a week of holiday.  Guess where I am. Liberty, equality and fraternity It looks as though I might be in New Yo...
Saturday, 8 December 2012

Graffiti in the heart of Paris

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Seen on a wall in central Paris today, I was quite impressed by this graffiti! Heart and lungs graffiti in Paris
Monday, 26 November 2012

God plucks defeat from the jaws of victory

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Have a really good look at one of those bible stories that are never told in church.  Take two or three translations in order to get a good ...
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Friday, 16 November 2012

Cowboys in armour?

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What an array of suits of armour!  This photo was taken at Hotel des Invalides in Paris, during the ' pilgrimage ' to Napoleon's...
Monday, 12 November 2012

Rainbow over La Bastille

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Paris - a rainbow over the Bastille monument (in fact a double rainbow if you look askance) You might also like to look at Ever thought...
Saturday, 10 November 2012

Two-headed puzzle

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Following advice from French friends, this week has given the opportunity to visit a few more new places in Paris. One asked me " Why...
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Friday, 9 November 2012

Surprisingly embarrassed by a name

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Naming our daughter 18 years ago, it never crossed my mind that she would go to university in Paris, or that that chance event would give me...
Thursday, 8 November 2012

Surprising Parisienne souvenirs

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A six-day trip to Paris got off to a bad start, while trying to negotiate the ticket barrier at the station with luggage.  The advice is to ...
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Art or graffiti?

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Seeing a sign like this one in Paris, one might wonder whether this is art or graffiti. If graffiti, then it has been executed very ca...
Thursday, 4 October 2012

A helicopter in a piano shop

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Walking through Versailles (near Paris) late one evening last week, I saw someone standing stiffly in a well lit piano showroom.  The shop w...
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Friday, 21 September 2012

Satire must do everything it can

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There is a German saying which translates roughly as " Satire must do everything it can ", and today as France closes 20 embassies...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Make no bones about it

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Found on the pavement near the Hotel des Invalides in Paris last week, here is some humorous art. Drawn by a skeleton staff? Let...
Monday, 27 February 2012

Greatest adversary of Yahweh

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Following on from yesterday's post about finding the Ugaritic Texts in Musée du Louvre last weekend, here are some more detailed pictur...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Finding the Ugaritic texts in the Louvre

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Last July I wrote a series of articles about the gods of the Old Testament including a post about The Ugaritic Texts .  Yes - I said 'go...
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