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Vancouver: Things To Do
Vancouver is a water front city in British Columbia, Canada. With a 675,000 residents is the most populated city in B.C. and the third most populated city in all of Canada. Vancouver is extremely ethnically and linguistically diverse. Vancouver has plans to become the greenest city in the world in the future. Vancouver is known for its historic Gastown neighbourhood, its seafood, its parks and its beaches. Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum in downtown Vancouver adjacent to Robson Square. The museum was opened to the public in 1931 and moved to its current location in 1983. The building was once the provincial courthouse designed in 1905. Museum of…
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Why The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Matters
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari is a German silent film released in 1920. It is widely considered to be the ultimate piece of German Expressionist cinema and the first horror film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is also one of the first films to include a plot twist and a framed story. Expressionism was born as a movement within painting largely as a reaction to the rise of realism. The film remains salient over a hundred years after its release do to its exploration of timeless themes such as the nature of authority and responsiblity for ones own actions. Germany was largely isolated from…
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Luxembourg City: Things To Do
Luxembourg City is a beautiful, extremely walkable European city with a rapidly growing population of just over 115,000 people. Located in the south of the small country of Luxembourg you will find that neither the capital nor the country as a whole is very touristy. All public transportation is free in the country making Luxembourg the first country to do so and as of writing one other country has followed suite, that being another small Euopean country of Malta. Luxembourg City is one of the capitals of the European Union (along with Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt) and is the home of several E.U. institutions. Luxembourg is known as a very…
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