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The platibanda is one of the architectural elements that define the urban and rural landscapes of the Algarve. In the border town of Castro Marim, it's possible to find several interesting examples of this architectonial solution.

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beach-huts sq

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251024. Amused to death.

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First light in Grindelwald, Switzerland.

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The world according to fish

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capital R

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Sam Falk Penn Station, New York City 1955

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Fanal Forest, Portugal by Gregoire Pansu

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Sam Falk Novelist Philip Roth, Princeton, New Jersey 1964

"No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses") could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient "The Plot Against America" might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U.S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It’s the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac." Philip Roth, 2018

If only he'd lived a few years longer, the horrors we inflicted on ourselves just a week ago would certainly have made Philip Roth plotz.

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Sam Falk Visitors on the Third Floor of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Midtown Manhattan, New York City 1952

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Sam Falk Standing Room Fans at the New York Yankees/Brooklyn Dodgers World Series Game Listening to the Game on a Portable Radio, the Bronx, New York City 1947