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Peru's Enigmatic Nazca Lines

The largest and most mysterious collection of colossal figures and geometric shapes on earth, and only clearly visible from the air, the Nazca Lines of Peru continue to intrigue all who seek to explain their origins. Perhaps because of their monumental ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  14 Sep 2009

Michelangelo's Most Famous Sistine Chapel Fresco

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them." And it is of course Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel painting of two outstretched hands, actually just a small part in the visual ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  13 Aug 2009

A Night in Atlantis, Dubai

It is not as difficult spending a night in an aquarium as you might think. Not in a five star one, at least. And if you are one of the lucky few who have already had the opportunity to book a stay at Dubai's extravagantly luxurious Atlantis The Palm ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  27 Feb 2009

American Gothic by Grant Wood

There are well-known paintings and then there are really well-known paintings. But if one work of art has earned the label of American icon, then it is most certainly Grant Wood's American Gothic. Disturbingly enigmatic to this day, as it is most ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  26 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Grant Wood

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Not only is this one of the most famous and well-loved paintings of modern culture, not to mention pop culture, for the art world in particular, Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh holds a one-of-a-kind place in the hearts of those who love it. But what ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  26 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Vincent van Gogh

Benidorm, Spain: Manhattan on the Mediterranean

When the mayor of a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Blanca had the idea of attracting tourists to his town by building several rows of six-story hotels back in 1956, no one could have predicted the development of what was to become the ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Associated Content,  19 Feb 2009

Even Germany Gets It

Despite the initial predictable calls for a political solution to a military conflict and justified concerns that Israel’s retaliation to Hamas rocket attacks will only create a new wave of martyrs eager to attack the Jewish state in the future, ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Blogger News,  30 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Hamas

Whatever happened to climate change, Europe?

Go Europe, leader in all things having to do with, uh, reduction (in this case CO2). The times and the rhetoric can sometimes climate-change on you faster than you would like, I bet. Are you already missing the good old days in the never-ending ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Blogger News,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

German Word of the Year Actually Two

Well it is if you translate it into English. When Germans say Finanzkrise, they actually mean “financial crisis”. Of course I do see why they want to scrunch it up like that. They too, like the rest of us, want to get it over with as soon as possible. ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Blogger News,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Peer Steinbrück (politician)

Angela Merkel is all dressed up with no place to go

Germans love words like solidarity and consensus and agreement and uniformity and accord and stuff like that. But let’s face it. They don’t love them that much. In calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel “Europe’s Geisterfahrer” (the wrong-way driver ...

From CLARSONIMUS, Blogger News,  6 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Nicolas Sarkozy

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