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Art: ArtNYC: Great info site of New York art galleries. Also listing of art suppliers.
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NYC: Skyscraper Museum: Info on the museum in Lower Manhattan, as well as several online exhibitions worth seeing.
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NYC: In 1916 New York City enacted the "set-back law" which decreed that buildings over a certain height must include proportionate setbacks so that light and air could reach the street below.
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Language: LEO: German <---> English dictionary. From TU Munich. Also contains a section with composed entries. Very useful!
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Music: David Gross: Blues. Plays at Scotland Yard in Hoboken, NJ, sometimes. First CD recorded & mixed by VD King from Better Off Dead, also sometimes at the Yard.
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Recreation: Cape Cod Whale Watch: Capt. John Boats, Town Wharf, Plymouth, MA. A nice, long ride out into the open sea on a fast boat. The company goes an extra distance to assure that the customers will indeed see whales.
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Museum: Plimoth Plantation: A recreation of the 1627 Pilgrim village. One feels time warped, especially if you talk to the inhabitants of the village. Make sure you ask them many questions!
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Museum: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: New York location near Bowling Green and Battery Park, NYC. Located in the old U.S. Custom House.
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NYC: The Manhattan Skyline. Two posters by John Wagner.
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Literature: Decameron Web: A site for the study of Giovanni Boccaccio's 'Decameron', a collection of short stories from the 14th century. Includes original Italian text and English translation.
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Books: Internet bookstore: Libri.de (in German)
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Travel: Good price offers for flights: Opodo.de (in German)
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Food: VEL Nut & Seed, distributed by K.L. Foods Inc., Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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Film: Margaret O'Brien: Major child star in the 1940s; e.g., in The Canterville Ghost (1944).
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Movie: The Song of Bernadette (1943). 156 min. w/ Jennifer Jones; directed by Henry King; novel by Franz Werfel. Story of Bernadette Soubirous who claimed to have seen 'a beautiful lady' (the Virgin Mary) at a grotto near Lourdes in Southern France. Historical background, but sappy. My rating: 5 out of 10.
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People: Alma Mahler-Werfel: was the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel; also had an affair with Oskar Kokoschka, who painted 'Bride of the Wind' to represent their love.
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