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How Victor Hugo’s daughter stalked an unlucky British soldier across the Atlantic
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn writing biographies of Florence Nightingale and the campaigning pacifist Vera Brittain, Mark...
How French day-trippers fell in love with Guernsey
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days ago“Victor Hugo planted this oak tree 150 years ago, and named it ‘the Oak of the United States of Europe’’”. Our Anglo-French tour guide pointed at a grand...
Some Parisians save 'le pipi' to help the Seine
BBC News· 3 days agoThe plan for a swimmable Seine casts a spotlight on the state of sewage in our rivers – and on the people doing better things with Paris' waste,...
60 romantic love quotes will make the man in your life swoon
TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThese romantic and meaningful love quotes for him draw from books, movies, and songs to show just...
Horne said Arizona schools confused about funding did not check emails. Here's what records show
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“I’m just very disappointed,” said Cartwright Elementary School District spokesperson Victor Hugo Rodriguez, whose district was among those which Horne ...
The 20 Most Famous Historical Fiction Books Worth Reading — Best Life
Best Life· 3 days agoIf you can't decide whether to crack open the spine of a fiction or nonfiction book, boy have we got...
Biblioracle: Remembering Alice Munro, a giant of contemporary literature
Chicago Tribune· 4 days agoCanadian short story writer, and 2013 Nobel laureate in fiction Alice Munro died on May 13 at the...
LES MISERABLES Returns to The Arsht Center in June
Broadway World· 1 day agoTickets for Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES...
Inside San Pedro, Bolivia’s Notorious Prison Run by Inmates
Vice· 5 days agoNestled among the Andes in La Paz, Bolivia’s capital city, San Pedro is a self-governing prison...
May 25 Recreation Briefs: Flat 50 Plus bicycle tour set
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette· 5 days agoThe Adams County Bicycle Club will host the 34th annual Flat 50 Plus bicycle tour at 7 a.m. June 22.