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Paris has been the scene of many infamous crimes over the years, and there's also a grand tradition of flamboyant, idiosyncratic investigators solving those crimes. The Police Museum captures some of the historical characters and evidence behind the struggle between those who ran afoul of the law and ... » more

It's hard to describe the Stravinsky Fountain exactly. A crazed hodgepodge of wild, brightly-colored, erratically moving mechanical beasts in a shallow pool of water between a centuries-old church and the brazen Pompidou Centre, the fountain is not the sort of thing you expect to find in Paris. But once ... » more

Why watch on C-SPAN in the middle of the night when you can see the real thing, live and in person? To witness a British parliamentary debate in all its bombastic, sarcastic glory, all you have to do is ... » more