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Impressions…Vladivostok, Russia

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Anne Bernecker's avatarANNE BERNECKER

After Blagovechensk we took the night train to Khabarovsk and then onto Vladivostok. An impressive Russian city on the pacific, where my great-grandfather Adolf Dattan was running the Kunst & Albers department store until the First World War. It was such a fantastic trip, following the footsteps of of our ancestor and to understand more about his life and achievements.

Thank you also for everyone at the Arseniev Museum, for the private tour of the Kunst & Albers exhibition and through the city. It was so inspiring to hear more about Adolf Dattan’s life, to visit the former department store, the Dattan house and former dining hall he built, and to find out that he also used to produce fashion and porcelain for Kunst & Albers.

Thank you for everyone who helped making it an amazing and unforgettable trip!!

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Hayle: South Quay

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Hayle: Penpol Creek

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J’accuse

Looks brilliant and so important for Europe today.

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Pendant les 12 années qu’elle dura, l’Affaire Dreyfus déchira la France, provoquant un véritable séisme dans le monde entier.
Dans cet immense scandale, le plus grand sans doute de la fin du XIXème siècle, se mêlent erreur judiciaire, déni de justice et antisémitisme. L’affaire est racontée du point de vue du Colonel Picquart qui, une fois nommé à la tête du contre-espionnage, va découvrir que les preuves contre le Capitaine Alfred Dreyfus avaient été fabriquées.
A partir de cet instant et au péril de sa carrière puis de sa vie, il n’aura de cesse d’identifier les vrais coupables et de réhabiliter Alfred Dreyfus.

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Auguste Renoir 5: 1886-90

What a peaceful world he painted.

hoakley's avatarThe Eclectic Light Company

The early 1880s had been a time of great change for Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). He and his partner and favourite model Aline Charigot had their first child in 1885, and he was working on what he intended to be a masterwork, The Large Bathers, in which he introduced a new style derived from his studies of Old Masters in Italy. Sadly, that flopped when he completed it in 1887, by which time he had started to suffer bouts of depression.

In 1886, he exhibited eight paintings in the Salon des XX in Brussels, following which thirty-two were shown in New York, and brought good sales.

renoirumbrellas Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), The Umbrellas (c 1881-86), oil on canvas, 180.3 x 114.9 cm, The National Gallery (Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917), London. Courtesy of and © The National Gallery, London.

The Umbrellas from about 1881-86 is packed not only with people, but their umbrellas…

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The Lanes in November

Beautiful photographs!!

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Chanson pour un voyageur solitaire de Lefkes

Quelquechose très amusant et différent!

Julien-James Vachon's avatarDirect-Actu.fr le blogzine de la culture pop et alternative

Nous n’allons pas faire un cours pour guides touristiques amoureux de l’île de Paros, mais parler d’un nouveau projet à suivre.

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Festive Coquette

Lovely name- lovely bird!!

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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus)

I saw this lovely hummingbird in the Atlantic Rainforest near Curitiba (south Brazil) when I used to live there until about 10 years ago.

I was lucky enough to get a few photos but as it was quite misty (as it usually is on the mountains in early morning) the photos serve only for reference. I used to go the rainforest, a section known as the Graciosa Trail, once a month when I lived in Curitiba.

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‘Waves’ by Eduard von Keyserling (GLM IX)

Keyslering’s diaries are interesting end a couple of years ago there was an excellent exhibition-I think in Liebermann’s House in Berin. He is thought of as something of a snob. Sounds interesting this however.

Jonathan's avatarIntermittencies of the Mind

Waves by Eduard von Keyserling was first published as Wellen in 1911. This Dedalus Books edition was first published earlier this year and was translated from the German by Gary Miller, who also includes an informative introduction to the book. I must admit that I hadn’t heard of Keyserling until I read Tony Malone’s brilliant translation of Schwüle Tage (Sultry Days) from last year’s German Literature Month. In the introduction to the book Miller makes the point that Keyserling forms a link between nineteenth century realism and twentieth century modernism in literature; his work is sometimes described as ‘literary impressionism’. Keyserling was a rather odd-looking, sickly aristocrat from present day Latvia, whose books are largely about German aristocracy before the First World War; although limited in scope his depiction of these social elites were not uncritical.

Waves takes place in a seaside village somewhere on the Baltic Sea. We are…

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Schwesterschiffe der „Fürth“: die „Plauen“

Love these old ships. The world of Conrad and so on.

juergenfeytiat's avatarDas kurze, aber bewegte Leben des Frachtdampfers „Fürth“

Plauener Spitze in alle Welt

Dieser Blogartikel fasst die Geschichte eines der Schwesterschiffe der „Fürth“ zusammen, des Dampfschiffs „Plauen“.

Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich hier im Blog bereits die „Reichenbach“ vorgestellt. Bei diesem Schiff fehlt derzeit noch der Beleg, nach welcher Stadt Reichenbach das Schiff benannt wurde: Reichenbach im Vogtland oder Reichenbach am Eulengebirge. Siehe dazu: Schwesterschiffe der „Fürth“: Die „Reichenbach“

Im Fall der „Plauen“ ist diese Frage eindeutig zu beantworten.

Die Stadt Plauen

Die Stadt Plauen hatte wie viele andere Industriestädte ihre Blütezeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Bei meinen Recherchen habe ich zu meiner Überraschung festgestellt, dass die Stadt 1912 über 125.000 Einwohner hatte! Und wer hätte gedacht, dass die Vereinigten Staaten damals sogar ein Konsulat in Plauen unterhielten.

Bekanntestes Exportprodukt der Stadt war die Plauener Spitze („Plauen-laces“ im Englischen). Plauener Spitze war auch in Australien ein Begriff und sicher ein gutes Argument für die Benennung eines…

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