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Another city, another city of the dead. Those of you who have, through this blog, joined me on my global travels are probably acutely aware of my penchant for visiting cemeteries. Beginning with my visit with Erin nearly six years …

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And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming. Although he had won the competition, da Silva Costa’s original idea of Christ holding a cross in his right hand and the world in his left was sometimes ridiculed. People called …

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At the end of the previous post, I noted that I’d initially considered calling it “The night of the singing cabbie.” Additional events of that evening led to another possible alternative title for that post. I’ve already mentioned the market …