Marie-Therese was the focus of several portraits by the post-impressionist, including the 1932 work La Reve (The Dream).

BBC: Picasso portrait of mistress sold for ?28m at Sotheby's

Evan Browning, a 26-year-old freelance photographer based in New York City, e-mailed me after reading my last post about La Salada in Buenos Aires for the Megacities Blog.

FORBES: Evan Browning's Photos Of La Salada In Buenos Aires

He told Forbes.com that it was not only mail operators like Deutsche Post and France's La Poste looking to use high-speed rail networks--now big projects such as the new freight railway between the Netherlands and Germany had attracted a wider mix of businesses.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Dialogues, " first performed at La Scala in 1957, is one of a handful of post-1950 operas that have found a permanent place in the repertory.

WSJ: Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met

Mr La Trobe-Bateman was the only candidate for the new Seneschal post, and has also taken on the jobs of magistrate and coroner.

BBC: Sark Seneschal and Chief Pleas single roles begin

He told Forbes.com that it was not only mail operators like Deutsche Post (other-otc: DPSTF - news - people ) and France's La Poste looking to use high-speed rail networks--now big projects such as the new freight railway between the Netherlands and Germany had attracted a wider mix of businesses.

FORBES: Rail To The Rescue