Topic: From Facebook Friends
aRT IS actually a string of 3 letters put together to form a word in the English language.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/431514?uid=3737720&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101160744467
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Google word search : "Art Without ‘Art’" and you get practically nothing.
Google image surf : "Art Without ‘Art’" and the bevy of similar and differential results are self-evident in this experiment.
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As a child during World War II, Moravcsik remembered buying groceries with food coupons and carrying them home himself – he was the only family member old enough for the task, but not old enough to be conscripted on the spot. He remembered a grenade exploding next to him, seeing two soldiers killed for no reason and finding 30 dead soldiers in the garden. The family's home was destroyed.
Recalling German writer Georg Büchner's phrase "Man is an abyss," he asked in his autobiographical essay: "If we try to peer into it, we recoil. I always thought that trust had to be the main element that brings us all together, but after what we had seen and heard, how can one hope for the unity of all mankind?"
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/moravcsik_memorial_service_100109.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/automobiles/18HOFFMAN.html
And finally to round out this days entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana
Carrera Panamericana was a border-to-border sports car racing event on open roads in Mexico. Running 5 consecutive years from 1950 to 1954, it was widely held by contemporaries to be the most dangerous race of any type in the world.
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"Large and luxurious, the Mercedes 300 series was built from 1951 until 1957 in its original form. The company's largest and most-prestigious models, the Mercedes-Benz Type 300 is considered a trademark of the era throughout the 1950s. With a 3 liter engine capacity, the name 300 said it all. Exclusive, expensive, elegant and full of power, the Type 300 vehicles were in an elite status all of its own. In a tribute to the Chancellor of Germany at the time, this series was often referred to as the Adenauer, after Konrad Adenauer. During his time as Chancellor, Adenauer used a total of six of these vehicles. "
In the year 1959 only 200 were produced. Subsequently, must be the reason for the nice price for the one found here.
Introduced originally for the Mille Miglia , in 1955, an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947).
