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Finding Music in a Strange City

Posted on July 7, 2015 by forstegrupp

Here is what I do when visiting cities and towns in Europe — I find church concerts. My husband says I have an uncanny knack for this. We had arrived in Basel around noon, and about 3 pm I left to walk … Continue reading →

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A Footnote to Frankenstein: Paracelsus and his Introduction of Laudanum to Western Medicine

Posted on July 2, 2015 by forstegrupp

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor is set on his scientific quest to create new life in part by reading the words of Paraselsus, whose full name was Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (d. 1541). He rebelled against common ideas … Continue reading →

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Cooling off in the Rhein

Posted on July 2, 2015 by forstegrupp

For our vacation (and husband’s work), we traveled to Switzerland. The first part of the stay was in Grindelwald and the second part in Basel. Basel (and Europe) is suffering in a heat wave with temperatures about 100 F or … Continue reading →

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