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...most dynamic city, Washburn also edits online city guide shanghaiist.com. NOTESFROMTHEROAD.COM Erik Gauger's sumptuous site contains gorgeous photographs from his trips around the globe. He eschews the camera phones or small digital cameras usually so beloved of travel bloggers and opts instead for an unwieldy, large-format Toyo AX camera with a Schneider lens. He also draws intricate maps in watercolors and acrylics to guide readers through Mexican deserts, the Iberian peninsula, and beyond. VAGABLOGGING.NET This is a website created by Rolf Potts, a renowned shoestring Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
DISCOVERED. An ICE AX believed to be the weapon used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky; by the daughter of a former Mexican secret service agent; in Mexico City. DNA tests of bloodstains on the ax have been delayed by a dispute between Ana Alicia Salas, who says her late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin...
...tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax...
...tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually...
...identified himself as "Nabil." After the commando assault began, said Galal, Nabil hurled a grenade toward the rear of the plane. Realizing he had taken his eyes off Galal, Nabil turned and fired at him. The pilot ducked, and the bullet grazed his head. Seizing a fire ax, Galal felled the terrorist with one swing, then jumped to safety. In the aftermath of the horror of Flight 648, many questions remained unanswered. Were the terrorists, whose trip was indeed believed to have begun in Tripoli, directly linked to Gaddafi? Were they agents of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian renegade...