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H igh above the cobbled streets of Le Marais — the kind where perfume shops outnumber grocery stores and no one wears sneakers unironically — a certain kind of spring has take ...
This small West Texas town is big on art and flavor. Well-seasoned locals share their favorite pit stops for a memorable ...
Braconet, of Paris, made the discovery that starch ... (nitrate of potash,) is then pressed dried, in a warm room, and is fit for use." Three parts (by weight) of gun-cotton thus prepared is ...
The house, unsurprisingly, came with its own history. The Italianate-style mansion—with its soaring ceilings, deep porches, ...
The sensory room at Madison Square Garden in New York ... and blue patches woven to resemble lichen or grass. Hand-applied plaster and sustainably farmed cork, evoking the texture of actual ...
The posh, 26-room Maison Barrière Vendôme in Paris's first arrondissement was just named to Travel + Leisure's 2025 It List.
PARIS — Nine years ago TV reality star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Thieves broke into her luxury rented apartment in the middle of the night, tied her up and made away with $ ...
Plaster casts could become a thing of the past thanks to a new technique which locks broken bones together. The procedure, developed by orthopaedic surgeons, could also avoid scarring of the skin ...
The Irish-Canadian writer transports the locked room genre to a steam train in The Paris Express. The rooms contain the passengers, marked by which class they travel in, and the train driver and ...
Lime-hair plaster has many benefits over gypsum plaster (a.k.a. plaster of Paris), but the latter is more commonly used today because the former cures instead of sets, meaning it has a much slower ...
He also featured in one of the best-known moments of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Kirsty Howard, from ...