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August 25, 1944 : Paris is liberated

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9awcpkc7F1r2r773o1_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9awcpkc7F1r2r773o1_1280.jpg" title="August 25, 1944 : Paris is liberated" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9awcpkc7F1r2r773o4_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9awcpkc7F1r2r773o4_1280.jpg" title="August 25, 1944 : Paris is liberated" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://alabaster1.tumblr.com/post/39308196393/unhistorical-august-25-1944-paris-is" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On August 19, as Allied forces approached, resistance fighters in Paris incited a rebellion against their Nazi and Vichy rulers and street skirmishes between the French and the occupiers broke out. Realizing that the rebellion could be crushed if military reinforcements were not sent, Charles de Gaulle sent a division of the Free French Forces, the 2nd Armored Division, to Paris, which Eisenhower had already decided to bypass. But on the morning of August 24th, both American and French tanks rolled into Paris down the Champs-Élysées, finally ready to free France from four years of occupation. According to this article, however, the liberation force was purposely made all-white. Wanting the liberation to be seen and remembered purely white, French victory, De Gaulle insisted that black troops (who made up a large percentage of the Free French armies) be excluded. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Paris’s Nazi military governor was ordered to bomb Paris into debris before letting it fall into enemy hands, but he never carried these orders out. Instead, he surrendered at a Paris hotel on August 25. That same day, Charles de Gaulle delivered a fiery speech to the newly-liberated people of Paris:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the French armies, with the support and the help of all France, of the France that fights, of the only France, of the real France, of the eternal France!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Over the following days, large groups of American and French troops and vehicles paraded through the streets of Paris.</div>

August 25, 1944 : Paris is liberated

viaOn August 19, as Allied forces approached, resistance fighters in Paris incited a rebellion against their Nazi and Vichy rulers and street skirmishes between the French and the occupiers broke out. Realizing that the rebellion could be crushed if military reinforcements were not sent, Charles de …

31Dec2012

A Stroll Down the Weihnahtsmarkt (Part Two)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">All in all, this is just a magical place to be in during Christmas. In the following posts I will reveal more of the city itself and all the touristic attractions, but i wanted to start of with these serene moments full of peace and joy.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHYWHEXbPRj8syIezIGwVfjAlS4e2MfljLZ_tkZpWOOtKxqximIU0Zbpy3Y9WPsK7wSAYrw9r8wufKZXXwy6e1BAmtZ9z-RPojsnk-Q3N9b-A7UgGC8cWRZy7QmbYjmbqUC-XXo6dtEE_/s1600/IMG_515,3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHYWHEXbPRj8syIezIGwVfjAlS4e2MfljLZ_tkZpWOOtKxqximIU0Zbpy3Y9WPsK7wSAYrw9r8wufKZXXwy6e1BAmtZ9z-RPojsnk-Q3N9b-A7UgGC8cWRZy7QmbYjmbqUC-XXo6dtEE_/s1600/IMG_515,3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrJUyKYgkBiW6mS2M6MSuMdtWJ4TJS4NTEV953oF9rH-AmQqhgvAaya5bxQAICYPtK5f3DXdpTLZagngyPtvefhfBBRHQdt7xSJ8D2HaUhf1qXNuv2PF89Z8eJCHaj9YqZrCWsfzFneM0/s1600/IMG_5113.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrJUyKYgkBiW6mS2M6MSuMdtWJ4TJS4NTEV953oF9rH-AmQqhgvAaya5bxQAICYPtK5f3DXdpTLZagngyPtvefhfBBRHQdt7xSJ8D2HaUhf1qXNuv2PF89Z8eJCHaj9YqZrCWsfzFneM0/s1600/IMG_5113.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEX9pWSjHhQ-KLcnjC6iND8Gfk4Mv3KEGlbDM-W-zxuwwUf3Zc6Qp3Cv2e2I0Et_wGB27MZNi7YRded9K4fwIIleYt40bzDg4HS9yKcVHunRESoOAfcAOlQyUiB2OoYmtFy4TsmaK_-7G/s1600/IMG_5123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEX9pWSjHhQ-KLcnjC6iND8Gfk4Mv3KEGlbDM-W-zxuwwUf3Zc6Qp3Cv2e2I0Et_wGB27MZNi7YRded9K4fwIIleYt40bzDg4HS9yKcVHunRESoOAfcAOlQyUiB2OoYmtFy4TsmaK_-7G/s1600/IMG_5123.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGoyiJdaZiv5Me_XrI6tcvMbXuTAvmZFixmHgsT4ltNTibs440UjtNScYj1tJRBMBfFZDHl6Ze5mgsXrN6NGy8so3nO28udzmlTOHYliHboHJUsf2qsZhRUBHxNRvtbVUfsJfKQMXvAdp6/s1600/IMG_5193.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGoyiJdaZiv5Me_XrI6tcvMbXuTAvmZFixmHgsT4ltNTibs440UjtNScYj1tJRBMBfFZDHl6Ze5mgsXrN6NGy8so3nO28udzmlTOHYliHboHJUsf2qsZhRUBHxNRvtbVUfsJfKQMXvAdp6/s1600/IMG_5193.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJeG8OTMaBdjyFxdzPHMPjlXY1RTLkuh6ds9Vktc_ZxBe7bwx72DwVZdrAkQjBdR_gO45fmk8XB29QetB3EtlwOa_LsONi4FSD2qWGyIvHdfJJKEWJM2aDtacAw03mfuv_LNAIEhLOpeHm/s1600/IMG_5723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJeG8OTMaBdjyFxdzPHMPjlXY1RTLkuh6ds9Vktc_ZxBe7bwx72DwVZdrAkQjBdR_gO45fmk8XB29QetB3EtlwOa_LsONi4FSD2qWGyIvHdfJJKEWJM2aDtacAw03mfuv_LNAIEhLOpeHm/s1600/IMG_5723.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_pddhbmpRcG9eFp1laTyMvL1c5T_XjJ49RplLTQj6ykiJNdSggz2goMd1YT8WJCG6ob2jzMRERrTJd2vzpausupnOYxvYA3kUXth_b00f8qrBJ6aj3B4OBWO7tyCzRS5vtwKMxj_LYBtV/s1600/IMG_5727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_pddhbmpRcG9eFp1laTyMvL1c5T_XjJ49RplLTQj6ykiJNdSggz2goMd1YT8WJCG6ob2jzMRERrTJd2vzpausupnOYxvYA3kUXth_b00f8qrBJ6aj3B4OBWO7tyCzRS5vtwKMxj_LYBtV/s1600/IMG_5727.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKDfumRVdSc8PI7OQ9FyBuAidJJ7L3WFIHe9hYZuR8pijN7y0RZ_vloponPX0VnDWXZ6StA642XrS_nUUX1GQjmF3fB1rEF-Vu8NCec9bBy5I1bQYU420don6Wrs9fD8ehlD6S2hyXpqd/s1600/IMG_5767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKDfumRVdSc8PI7OQ9FyBuAidJJ7L3WFIHe9hYZuR8pijN7y0RZ_vloponPX0VnDWXZ6StA642XrS_nUUX1GQjmF3fB1rEF-Vu8NCec9bBy5I1bQYU420don6Wrs9fD8ehlD6S2hyXpqd/s1600/IMG_5767.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div>

A Stroll Down the Weihnahtsmarkt (Part Two)

All in all, this is just a magical place to be in during Christmas. In the following posts I will reveal more of the city itself and all the touristic attractions, but i wanted to start of with these serene moments full of peace and joy.…

27Dec2012

Photo by Slim Aarons, Los Angeles ca. 1955

Photo by Slim Aarons, Los Angeles ca. 1955

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25Dec2012

A stroll down the Weihnachtsmarkt (Part One)

A stroll down the Weihnachtsmarkt (Part One)

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23Dec2012

Autum colored cityscape at sunset [Video inside]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSE4w9u6JHlOKD3fVhAJN2QRFQ3Spii-gSCNWqmToyfstzSOkp6Hrwi8QKBeYF0y1dtB4frb-5scfcnk4ytoViOxKH3W2V0JvjU_dMsnWzej3VkXuofa5ergAs3uowXdx5QU8STZEm8WY/s1600/IMG_0725.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSE4w9u6JHlOKD3fVhAJN2QRFQ3Spii-gSCNWqmToyfstzSOkp6Hrwi8QKBeYF0y1dtB4frb-5scfcnk4ytoViOxKH3W2V0JvjU_dMsnWzej3VkXuofa5ergAs3uowXdx5QU8STZEm8WY/s1600/IMG_0725.jpg" /></a></div><br />In this penultimate episode of the fourth season of Beni's Diaries, you can see him playing outside in the park and autumn colored cityscapes while the sun is slowly setting.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SP3DD0x-13s" width="480"></iframe></div>

Autum colored cityscape at sunset [Video inside]

In this penultimate episode of the fourth season of Beni's Diaries, you can see him playing outside in the park and autumn colored cityscapes while the sun is slowly setting.…

23Dec2012

Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress

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23Dec2012

Dressed as a Carousel c.1919

Dressed as a Carousel c.1919

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20Dec2012

Lina Basquette c.1926

Lina Basquette c.1926

Lina Basquette, well known dancer and musical comedy star, rehearsing new steps for an upcoming production on a ledge of the roof of the Hotel Commodore, twenty-eight stories above 42nd Street, New York c. 1926.via…

18Dec2012

Vintage Beauty

Vintage Beauty

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16Dec2012

Back from Cologne

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">I am back from Cologne with 700+ new shots of one  of the most beautiful Christmas destinations of the world. More to follow as soon as I get the first batch processed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFIT1T4CKafGLT15VgvoL_T6HAMaTA1GXpuHbP2O4Yien2-TO7LRDup7eGyKoM7EOwE4kpwDPg0MOn2qW8HQesE1bf2i142r8u4leW_EL_j85lO09CCENzYfWfUxT5LOwM1MT4jwrvVN7n/s1600/Cologne+cathedral+Xmas+Mkt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFIT1T4CKafGLT15VgvoL_T6HAMaTA1GXpuHbP2O4Yien2-TO7LRDup7eGyKoM7EOwE4kpwDPg0MOn2qW8HQesE1bf2i142r8u4leW_EL_j85lO09CCENzYfWfUxT5LOwM1MT4jwrvVN7n/s640/Cologne+cathedral+Xmas+Mkt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>

Back from Cologne

I am back from Cologne with 700+ new shots of one of the most beautiful Christmas destinations of the world. More to follow as soon as I get the first batch processed. …