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The principal cemetery of Montmartre, where luminaries of the arts such as the composers Berlioz and Offenbach lie buried, may seem a world away, but it’s only a short walk west from the Moulin Rouge to the entrance (west past the Moulin Rouge, then right at avenue Rachel).
These top-dollar portraits of art-world luminaries look good enough to eat.
Dutifully following instructions, I find myself in a GOP Web site endowed with the collected wisdom of such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.
The final tally was 120 to 7 (with 21 countries abstaining); in dissenting, the United States joins such human rights luminaries as China, Sudan, Turkey, and Indonesia.
The seals are victims not of research or of subsistence hunting, says Hunt , but of an unsubstantiated claim that their penises increase human potency ("totally inexcusable" in "what is supposed to be an enlightened age," actor William Shatner, one of a growing cast of luminaries who have signed on to the IFAW cause, has been quoted as saying).