December 2011 Desktop Wallpaper
Widescreen (1920×1200) | Standard Size (1600×1200) | Standard Size (1280×1024) | iPhone 4 | iPad This month’s wallpaper is of a broken windmill in Belogradchik, Bulgaria
Win a One Year Boingo Global Account and Help Build a School in Zambia
It is that time of year again. Time for the Passports with Purpose program to kickoff. Last year travel bloggers helped build a village in India. This year they will be building a library in Zambia. The program is pretty simple. For every $10 donation you make to PwP you can get put into a [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #162: Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
From the World Heritage inscription: The Bauhaus is an outstanding example of the Modern Movement, which revolutionized artistic and architectural thinking and practice in the 20th century, and in particular of the progressive architectural concepts of the Jugendstil. In 1919 the Schools of Art and of Applied Arts of the Grand Duchy of Saxony were [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #161: Classical Weimar
From the World Heritage inscription: The high artistic quality of the public and private buildings and parks in and around the town testify to the remarkable cultural flowering of the Weimar classical period. Enlightened ducal patronage attracted many of the leading writers and thinkers in Germany, such as Goethe, Schiller and Herder, to Weimar in [...]
