A handsome lead (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who can actually act, a beautiful woman (Françoise Dorléac, sister to Catherine Deneuve) who is pretty much crazy, and a villain (Jean Servais) who is charming in Philippe de Broca’s […]

A handsome lead (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who can actually act, a beautiful woman (Françoise Dorléac, sister to Catherine Deneuve) who is pretty much crazy, and a villain (Jean Servais) who is charming in Philippe de Broca’s […]
Wassily Kandinsky’s stage set for Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ at the Friedrich Theater, Dessau, on 4 April, 1928. ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ is a suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied […]
The eastern terminus of the Budapest Metro Line M2 at the intersection of Feher and Kerepesi roads shortly after the opening of the inaugural section of the line in 1970. The surface station has a […]
The Volvo 240 became a symbol of Scandinavian values. The safe, the sound, the commonplace. Square and homely, yet solid and reliable. No frills, just function over form. Taking you from A to Z. The […]
Left paradrop door of the Kawasaki C-2 mid-size, twin-turbofan engine, long range, high speed military transport aircraft developed and manufactured by Kawasaki Aerospace Company. The plane is deployed by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). […]
Budapest, Hungary photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark string of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 525 square km and […]
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Bridge was used for electric trains from 1895 until 1958. This was the only 4 track bridge in Chicago’s history. Most sites seem to call it a Jackknife bridge for […]
A Japanese Girl (1918) by Jacob Kramer (1892 – 1962), Ukrainian-born painter who spent all of his working life in England.
Tokyo’s Shibuya station with the Hachiko statue in the late 1930s. The small bronze Hachiko statue may not appear particularly impressive however, it is still Shibuya’s main meeting point. The original statue sculpted by Teru […]
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 1956 Academy Awards. They both won the Best Actress Award in previous years. Audrey Hepburn won for ‘Roman Holiday’ in 1953 while Grace Kelly won for ‘The […]
Marilyn Monroe with Norman Rosten and his friends | Long Island, 1955 Poet Norman Rosten and his wife, Hedda, accompanied Marilyn Monroe the last seven years of her life. In fact, as time went on […]
The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 were manufactured from 1961 to 1967. They were essentially identical except for their engine displacement, as indicated by their model names. They were available as a saloon and station […]
Aldo Rossi designed his cemetery for a competition in 1971. The scheme was reworked in 1976 before construction could begin in 1978, although as it stands, the vivid orange colored building is only partially completed […]
Sounds of Silence | Simon and Garfunkel | 1966
Levitating Cat | Javier Mayoral, 2020 | Acrylic on panel, 8 x 9.5 in
Maria Callas on the Onassis yacht ‘Christina’ with Mr and Mrs Churchill | 1957
Paris after the Liberation | Lee Miller | 1944
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