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Cambridge
Posted June 29, 2007 at 04:59 PM by vharman
The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world - and the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world after Oxford. The university was founded in 1209 as a result of a dispute between Oxford scholars and local townsfolk resulted in their exodus to a "school" in Cambridge to begin post-graduate [...]
Lemont Temple
Posted June 26, 2007 at 08:16 PM by Omar
The Lemont Temple - aka the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago - is a major Hindu community center in the Chicago area. The temple web site provides the following abridged introduction to the complex: The [...]
Strasbourg
Posted May 30, 2007 at 02:51 AM by lapetite
Feeling the need to escape Paris for a bit, I grabbed a few friends and caught a train bound for Strasbourg, in the Alsace region of France. Although it's a bit far for a day-trip, Strasbourg makes an excellent escape from the hustle and bustle of the capital. Located on the border between France and Germany, Alsace blends both [...]
Haussmann-free Paris
Posted May 29, 2007 at 03:38 AM by lapetite
In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to rebuild Paris for the modern era. Up until this point, Paris had been much like other European cities: dirty, dark, disorderly, and in grave danger of fire or plague. But Haussmann changed all that — he swept away most of the teetering medieval [...]
Sites and Sounds: Bucharest
Posted May 28, 2007 at 05:53 PM by sgarba
This is from a trip to Bucharest, Romania. Not exactly the most picturesque city in the World, yet still striking by virtue of its history (Ceau?escu), its people and its new found status as one of the recent entrants into the EU.
