Category: Culture
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Why did the chicken cross the road? The story of a meme
Why? During a public recording of “des papous dans la tête“, France Culture radio station show, on the 6th of June 2004, Françoise Treussard rhetorically asked herself if the author of the classical question-story about the chicken who would have crossed the road was present in the studio. I took the issue in my own hands as if…
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Iran mosque ceilings
Iranian mosques are decorated of marvelous ceilings witnesses to centuries of devotion and artistic prowess. On BoredPanda.
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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!
It’s on January 12th, 1992 that, according to Arthur C. Clarke, was born HAL-9000, the computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick). Actually, the first time it was powered on. So, it is exactly 23-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! HAL-9000 is an Artificial…
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Baroque garden pavillon (Melk Abbey)
Finally, still in the Melk Abbet (Austria), you can find a nice little garden pavillon (transformed into a quiet little pub) whose baroque painted decor is worth a few minutes. The exotic animals reminded me of wildlife safari photo trips…
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Melk Abbey Church (Stift Melk)
The abbey church in Melk can be visited and photographs are allowed (provided that you are polite enough not to use your flash, of course). Here are some of those I collected during my recent visit to Melk Abbey. Stift Melk wbe site.
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Stift Melk / Melk Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melk_Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey in Austria, and among the world’s most famous monastic sites, where I stopped by during a trip to Vienna and Austria a few weeks ago. I grabbed a few photos while I was there.