Though eight million men died in the Great War, they represented approximately a quarter of the total casualties. Death was far from an uncommon occurrence but a soldier was more likely to be gravely wounded than to die. The men who were plucked from the brink of death were not the same men who had […]
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At the turn of the century, Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists were eagerly looking forward to what the new century would bring. The year 2000 was especially interesting to them. They visualized all of the technical advances and innovations humanity would enjoy one hundred years hence. Their imaginings were documented in a set of […]
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I haven’t seen La Maison du Mystère, the 10-episode French serial. I’m afraid I never will. The odds of disappointment are too great: no movie could live up to these 1923 stills of the silent film.
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