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Reuters: One person died and two others were injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Saturday. Police quickly arrested the 26-year-old man, a French national, using a Taser stun gun, Darmanin told reporters. The suspect had been sentenced to four years in prison …
Ben Werdmuller on what you should write about on your blog: Whatever you want to share. That’s the long answer and the short answer. What you shouldn’t worry about is whether what you’re sharing is valuable. If you want to share it, it’s inherently valuable: a reflection of who you are and how you think about the world. …
The Comédie-Française is the oldest active theater company in the world. It was founded on August 8, 1680 by a decree of Louis XIV (1643-1715), merging the only two Parisian acting troupes in existence at the time. The company’s primary venue is the Salle Richelieu, which is a part of the Palais-Royal complex and located …
The George Peabody Library in Baltimore is beautiful. Formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, the library’s collection dates from the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857. In that year, George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their “kindness …
The Washington Monument honors and memorializes George Washington (1732–1799), the country’s first president, at the center of the nation’s capital. It was designed by Robert Mills and eventually completed by Thomas Casey and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The structure was completed in two phases of construction, one private (1848-1854) and one public (1876-1884). …
The Tunnel des Tuileries is a tunnel parallel to the Seine at the Quai des Tuileries close to the Louvre. Today, the 861m long (2,825 feet) tunnel is reserved for pedestrians, bicycles and street artists. When it opened in 1967, it was used for one-way traffic from west to east as an integral part of …
Madeleine Albright (1937-2022) served as United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 and United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. In 1968, she purchased a four-bedroom townhouse in Georgetown with her ex-husband for around $100,000. The 4,000 square-foot house, which was built in 1853 sold in 2023 for $4,450,000. …
Joseph Menn writing in The Washington Post: Current and former federal officials are warning that a surge in hate speech and disinformation about Jews on Twitter is uniting and popularizing some of the same extremists who have helped push people to engage in violent protests including the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. *** “This type of …
One of the main reasons to delete your social media accounts is that there isn’t a real choice to move to different social media accounts. Quitting entirely is the only option for change. If you don’t quit, you are not creating the space in which Silicon Valley can act to improve itself. Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments for Deleting …
Andrew Sullivan writing in New York Magazine in 2016: The Sabbath — the Jewish institution co-opted by Christianity — was a collective imposition of relative silence, a moment of calm to reflect on our lives under the light of eternity. It helped define much of Western public life once a week for centuries — only …