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New Mexico covers 114,000 square miles {295,250 square kilometers}.
The state was admitted to the Union on 14 February {the 48th state}.
The popular name is 'Grand Canyon State'.
The state flower is the Saguaro Cactus Blossom; the state bird is the Cactus Wren.
The state animal is 'road kill'.
The European Union
My Europe Travel Guide site
http://www.visitEurope.com
http://www.RailEurope.com
http://www.europenethotels.com
A Few Important People
Gov. Janet Napolitano
Railroads of Continental Europe
Reading Material, Other Media
browse travel books about Europe at Amazon
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 | "Europe For Dummies" [2011]
Wiley/For Dummies 6th edition 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $23.26 |
Great Britain / United Kingdom
'A Pocketful of Brits' Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Authors of Britain Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
A Beer In The Evening: The Pubs of Britain
British Beer & Pub Association [est. 1904] based in London, England
Compare Car Hire - online auto rental booking site for U.K.
FRIXO live road traffic reports for Great Britain
The British Sandwich & Food To Go Association [est. 1990]
A Few Important People
monarchy of the United Kingdom entry at Wikipedia
King Charles III [b. 1948] ascended to the throne at age 73 on the death of his mother on 8 September 2022.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II [1926-2022] ascended to the throne in 1952 and reigned longer than Queen Victoria: 70 years and 7 months; she died at age 96.
Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh [1921-2021], husband of Queen Elizabeth II 1947-2021.
England
Nottingham City area [East Midlands, U.K.] Hotels
The Eagle & Child Public House [est. 1650] in Oxford, England
Lamb and Flag Inn & Public House [est. circa 1695] in Oxford, England
H.P. Bulmers Cider [est. 1887] of Hereford
'Thomas Land' at Drayton Manor Theme Park [open 3/2008] in Staffordshire, England
City of York in Yorkshire, U.K.
Shambles Street district in City of York, Yorkshire
York Minster Cathedral [finished 1472] in York, U.K.
Tyneside Cinema newsreel theater [est. 1937] in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
National Media Museum [est. 1983] in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.
Goodwood Festival of Speed [July 2013 = #20] in West Sussex, U.K.
Goodwood Historic Motorsport Revival Meeting [Sept 2013 = #16] in West Sussex, U.K.
Yorkshire Silent Film, Ltd. [est. 2015] in Leeds, U.K. - produces events year-round
Yorkshire Silent Film Festival [May 2018 = #3] in Leeds, U.K. - official website (expired 2017) •
Facebook
Leeds Grand Theatre [built 1878] West Yorkshire, U.K.
The Northern Ballet Company [est. 1969] in Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K.
Royal Theatre [est. 1884] in Northampton, U.K.
West Yorkshire Playhouse [est. 1990] in Leeds, U.K.
Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England
'stay in Cornwall' travel site
Ealing Studios [est. 1931] in London, UK
Elstree Film & Television Studios [est. 1925]
Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden [est. 1995, purchased 2010] northwest of London, UK
Pinewood Studios [est. 1936] outside London, UK
Twickenham Film Studios [built in 1912] near London, UK
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 | "England For Dummies" [2002] by Donald Olson For Dummies 4th edition 8½x5½ pb [3/2008] out of print/used |
 | "Once Upon a Time In Great Britain: A Travel Guide To the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories" [2002] by Melanie Wentz Each chapter visits the literal geographic background for classics such as "Peter Rabbit", "Paddington Bear", "Alice In Wonderland", "Kidnapped", "The Secret Garden", "The Wind In The Willows", "Mary Poppins", "Peter Pan", and the "Harry Potter" books; read about the real chocolate factory that made such an impression on the young Roald Dahl, the cozy pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien introduced their friends to Narnia and hobbits, the real '100 Aker Wood' that helped A.A. Milne create "Winnie The Pooh", and the railway station where "Thomas the Tank Engine" lives. Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [5/2014] for $7.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¾x5 pb [8/2002] out of print/used |
the London area
London Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Shortstay accomodations (with Yotel)
Armadillo Cafe & Grill - breakfast in the style of Santa Fe, USA
Caviar House & Prunier
Apostrophe food boutique
Cafe Rouge - breakfasts in the French tradition
Supercar Hire Company based in Central London
Scotland
Scottish Cinemas and Theatres [est. 2001]
National Museums Scotland
'T in the Park' music festival [July 2012 = #19] in Scotland
Scottish Borders Historic Motoring Extravaganza [June 2014 = #42] in Scotland
Borders Vintage Automobile Club [est. 1895] in Scotland
Thirlestane Castle [built 13th century, rebuilt 1590] south of Edinburgh, Scotland
Milford Vintage Engineering, Ltd. [est. 2006] in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland
Association for Scottish Literary Studies [est. 1970]
National Library of Scotland [est. 1925]
The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema [March 2011 = #1] in Scotland
Wales
Welsh Racing Drivers Assn. [est. 1981] based in Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Pembrey Circuit, the home of Welsh Motorsport [open 1989] in South Wales, U.K.
Ireland
eleven-day Jameson Dublin International Film Festival [Feb 2011 = #9] in Dublin, Ireland
Belfast Centre [Northern Ireland] Hotels
Templepatrick [County Antrim, Northern Ireland] Hotels
Whitefriar Grill restaurant [est. 9/2011], 16 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Kennedy’s (Dublin, Ireland) http://www.kennedys.ie/
Railroads of Great Britain
Assn. of Train Operating Companies [est. 1993] of U.K.
National Railway Museum [est. 1968] in York, U.K.
National Railway Museum NE Branch [est. 2004] in Shildon, County Durham, U.K.
Beamish Open Air Museum of Northeast England
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway [1867-1962, preserved 1968] in West Yorkshire, England
"Britain by BritRail 2008: Touring Britain by Train" [2008] by LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski
http://www.amazon.com/Britain-BritRail-2008-Touring-Train/dp/0762745371/
Austria
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www.FranceTourism.com
Cinema of France Pages at Magic Lantern
Authors of France Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
Golf Holidays in France
Poilâne Boulangerie [est. 1932] - 3 locations in Paris, France
'Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Hotels' booking website
'Paris Montparnasse Hotels' booking website
'Paris Hotels' booking website
DigNgo Luxury Bicycle Tours of France & Italy
Musée Albert-Kahn [] located in suburban Boulogne-Billancourt, just west of Paris
La Rotonde (Paris, France) http://www.rotondemontparnasse.com/
Les Deux Magots (Paris, France) http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/en/ambiances.php#/ambiances.php
My French Film Festival [Jan 2012 = #2] online {for fee}
'Rendez-Vous With French Cinema' showcase [March 2012 = #17] in New York City
Champs Elysees Film Festival [June 2015 = #4] in Paris, France
Barge Peoples Festival / Pardon National de la Batellerie [est. 1960 = June] at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Yvelines, France
Paris International Fantastic Film Festival [Dec 2017 = #7] in France
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 | "The Arcades Project" aka "Das Passagenwerk" [1940] by Walter Benjamin [1892-1940] Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, Translated by Howard Eiland & Kevin McLaughlin Benjamin made notes on the culture-changing glass-topped arcades of Paris, France from 1927 until his suicide (to prevent capture by the Nazis) in 1940; long thought destroyed, the manuscript finally saw publication & translation in the 1980s Harvard Univ Belknap Press 10x6½ pb [3/2002] for $21.24 Harvard Univ Belknap Press 10x6½ hardcover [12/99] for $60.00 book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "France In Mind: An Anthology - From Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mayle and Adam Gopnik - A Feast of British and American Writers Celebrate France" [2003] Edited and with an Introduction by Alice Leccese Powers 33 essays & excerpts by: Henry Adams, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Blume, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.F.K. Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Adam Gopnik, Joanne Harris, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Stanley Karnow, Peter Mayle, Mary McCarthy, Jan Morris, Ezra Pound, David Sedaris, Tobias Smollett, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Theroux, Gillian Tindall, Calvin Trillin, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Richard Wilbur, and William Carlos Williams Vintage Departures Original 8x5¼ pb [3/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Paris In Mind: From Mark Twain To Langston Hughes, From Saul Bellow To David Sedaris - Three Centuries of Americans Writing About Their Romance (and Frustrations) With Paris" [2003] Edited and with an Introduction by Jennifer Lee essays & excerpts by: John Adams, Jennifer Allen, Deborah Baldwin, James Baldwin, Dave Barry, Naomi Barry, Sylvia Beach, Saul Bellow, nightclub owner Bricktop, Art Buchwald, T.S. Eliot, M.F.K. Fisher, Janet Flanner, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Jefferson, Stanley Karnow, Patric Kuh, A.J. Liebling, Anaïs Nin, Grant Rosenberg, David Sedaris, Irwin Shaw, Maxine Rose Shur, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, E.B. White Vintage Departures Original 8x5¼ pb [7/2003] for $16.00 |
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"France For Dummies" [2003] by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince & Cheryl A. Pientka
For Dummies 4th edition 8½x5½ pb [5/2007] out of print/many used "Paris For Dummies" [2011] by Joseph Alexiou
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 | "Frommer's 25 Great Drives In France" [2011] from British Auto Association 25 distinctive itineraries with full color maps and photographs Frommer's 8¾x5¼ pb [2/2011] out of print/used |
 | "Dawn of The Belle Epoque (1870-1900): The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends" [2011] by Mary McAuliffe, PhD personalities not in the book's title include Auguste Rodin, Marie Curie, and César Ritz Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [5/2011] for $9.99 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 8¾x6 pb [3/2014] for $19.93 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9x6 hardcover [6/2011] for $20.04 |
 | "The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel" international bestseller [2013] by Nina George, Translated by Simon Pare Monsieur Perdu operates his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, and using his intuitive feel for the exact book that a reader needs, he mends broken hearts and souls. The only person that he can't seem to heal through literature is himself . . . Kindle Edition from Broadway Books/Random House [6/2015] for $11.99 Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [3/2016] for $12.80 Crown 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/2015] for $15.24 |
 | "Twilight of The Belle Epoque (1900-1918): The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through The Great War" [2014] by Mary McAuliffe, PhD • personalities not in the book's title include Matisse, Debussy, Ravel, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, and François Coty Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [3/2014] for $9.99 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9x6 pb [3/2017] for $14.89 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2014] for $21.27 |
 | "100 Places In France Every Woman Should Go" [2014] by Marcia DeSanctis Kindle Edition from Travelers' Tales [11/2014] for $9.99 Travelers' Tales 7½x5½ pb [11/2014] for $16.81 |
 | "When Paris Sizzled (1918-1928): The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends" [2016] by Mary McAuliffe, PhD personalities not in the book's title include Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Proust, André Citroën, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and 'the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse' Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [9/2016] for $15.65 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2016] for $20.36 |
 | "Paris By The Book: A Novel" [2018] national bestseller by Liam Callanan When an eccentric American novelist abruptly disappears, his wife discovers tickets to Paris, France; she takes her two daughters along and discovers an unfinished manuscript which leads to an English-language bookstore, which she agrees on the spur of the moment to purchase . . . Kindle Edition from Dutton/Penguin Group [4/2018] for $12.99 Dutton 8x5¼ pb [4/2018] for $11.66 Dutton 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2018] for $16.49 |
http://www.amazon.com/Little-French-Bistro-Novel/dp/0451495586/
"An American In Paris: The Cordial Traveler Inside Guide" by Veronique Vial [Riggs 2005?]
"When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944" [Little, Brown & Co.]
by Ronald C. Rosbottom - 9780316217446
Germany / Deutschland
Cinema of Germany Page at Magic Lantern
A.L.G.: Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten [est. 1986] in Berlin
Autostadt/Automobile City [open 5/2000] in Wolfsburg, Germany
Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen / ZeitHaus [est. 1985] in Wolfsburg, Germany
Wuppertaler Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway)
a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany designed by Eugen Langen and built between 1897 and 1903, with the first track opening in 1901;
still in use today, moving some 25 million passengers annually (2008); it runs along a route of 13.3 kilometres (8.3 miles).
"The Flying Train" short [Deutsche Mutoskop und Biograph (DMB) 1902]
depicts a ride on the Schwebebahn (floating railway) in Wuppertal, Germany in 1902 •
bare credits at IMDb
watch full b&w short from MoMA [8/2020 upload; 2:04] online at YouTube
enhanced version by Denis Shiryaev of Poland: slowed down, colorized, and sound added
watch full b&w short [8/2020 upload; 3:47] online at YouTube
video of the Schwebebahn and Wuppertal, Germany in 2018
watch color short [7/2018 upload; 12:37] online at YouTube
Greece
Greek National Tourism Orgn. website
Hotel Keti on the island of Santorini in Greece
www.GreekTourism.com
new Acropolis Museum opened 6/M9
Hungary
Italy / Italia
Cinema of Italy Pages at Magic Lantern
Access Italy Tours [est. 1984]
The City of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy
Italian Western Film Festival [May 2012 = #2?] in Orvieto, Italy
'Rome [Italy] Fiumicino Airport Hotels' booking website
'Verona [Italy] Hotels' booking website
Antico Caffe Greco (Rome, Italy)http://www.anticocaffegreco.eu/
Poland
The Polish Film Institute [est. 2005] in Warszawa
Spain / España + Portugal
City of Madrid, Spain official website {Spanish language}
Empresa Municipal Promoción de Madrid, Spain {multiple languages}
Cinema of Spain Page at Magic Lantern
Cerveceria Alemana (Madrid, Spain) http://www.cerveceriaalemana.com/
CareerJet jobs {empregos} database in Portugal
oesteglobal.biz portugal
Switzerland
Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (Basel Transport Service) in Basel, Switzerland
founded in 1895, expanded to Germany in 2014, expanded to France in 2017 - making it the world's first trinational streetcar system
Scandinavia
Denmark
Official Travel Guide to Denmark
Hans Christian Anderson {Danish national hero} Bicentennial
Finland
Forssa Silent Movie Festival [Aug-Sept 2011 = #11] in Finland
Iceland & Greenland
www.iceland.org
www.iceland.is
www.icelandnaturally.com
www.IcelandTouristBoard.com
Norway
www.visitNorway.com
Sweden
Opera Ka"llaren restaurant [built 1895] www.OperaKallaren.SE
smaller countries
CZ = http://www.prague-hotel.co.uk/
CZ = historic http://www.hotelulipy.cz/ in South Bohemia
chain of fast food restaurants, Bageterie Boulevard , Czech Republic
CZ = http://www.prague.tv/ Prague's City Guide [est. 2001]
Hotels of Brasov, Romania booking site
multi-language Slovakia Tourism website
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