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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Twilight of a Museum

November 26, 2024
Tags: cairo, museum, statue, development

Signs of the Museum

November 25, 2024
Tags: museum, sign, guide, messy

Old School Display

November 25, 2024
Tags: museum, preservation, cairo

Order to the Desert

November 25, 2024
Tags: museum, ancient Egypt, power, art, desert

Ditching Complexity

November 25, 2024
Tags: cairo, ancient Egypt, military, public art, power

A Touch of Gentleness

November 24, 2024
Tags: cairo, museum, ancient Egypt, theology, chairs, gold

A King to Remember

November 24, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, statue, museum, people

The Central Court

November 24, 2024
Tags: museum, cairo, statue, design

The Egyptian Museum

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, ancient Egypt, museum, art, colonialism

Surveying Modern Cairo

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, map, city, museum, railway

Cairo and the Nile

November 19, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, city, colonialism

The Faulty Keys

November 18, 2024
Tags: cairo, books, globalization, city, Israel, gender

The Political Code

November 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, politics, symbols, sign, markets, Egypt

The Traffic Argument

November 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, traffic, infrastructure, cars, street scene, city

No One Here Gets Ahead

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, money, economy
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