Speed of Life

Mayor @PeteButtigieg on the Notre Dame fire  pic.twitter.com/BS88OXCLf7 — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2019 As the smoke clears in Paris, it appears that the damage to Notre Dame is not catastrophic. The fire has destroyed the wood roof & spire along with some other elements, but the vaulted ceiling survived and Notre Dame is otherwise mostly intact. The grand organ survived the flames. The Pompiers de Paris showed their immense fire fighting skill in saving most of Notre Dame from destruction!

France’s triumphant team is a symbol of multiculturalism — here’s how diversity played a crucial role in the World Cup’s most successful teams pic.twitter.com/jJcdCFrj4B — NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 15, 2018

There is no Planet B: let's face it. pic.twitter.com/N3Cr5rE9TF — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 25, 2018 What is the meaning of our lives if we spend it destroying the future of our children ? pic.twitter.com/HbfxlPCXkn — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 25, 2018

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Spend some time at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today: Van Gogh Museum Online

"Rue Mosnier with Flags" Édouard Manet 25 3/4 x 31 3/4 in. oil on canvas 1878 Getty Museum, Los Angeles photo by Gregg Chadwick Édouard Manet's "Rue Mosnier" was painted two years before July 14th was declared the French national holiday in 1880. The holiday is known as the Fête Nationale in France and commemorates the Fête de la Fédération of 1790, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris by an angry mob on 14 July 1789, sparking the revolution that rid France of its monarchy. Manet painted the scene as if he is looking down from his second story studio onto the flag decked street below. Manet's brush is fluid and the color scintillating but the weary amputee on crutches, perhaps a war veteran from the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, is the figure with which we enter the painting. In essence we as viewers enter the scene carrying a ladder just behind the man on crutches bearing the "costs and sacrific...

12/17 Paris, Palais Omnisports De Bercy