Lyon
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Since 1868, pedestrian crossings have been installed across the globe, allowing humans by foot to cross busier streets safer. It started in London, where the railway engineer John Peake Knight had a lantern with three semaphore arms installed. After the gas leaked, causing an explosion, the idea died, until the traffic dramatically increased by the…
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Confluence: Swans
The City of Lyon shows the logical and classical dedication to rivers known through the ages throughout the world. And one may walk right up to the point which is the actual confluence of the two rivers that flow through this city — the Rhône and the Saône Rivers. The Rhône rises in the Alps,…
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Confluence: Conversation
This is the very position (from which I took the picture) where one sees a single river. Once one turns around, on the left flows the Saône, and to the right the Rhône. It seems to be a place where not just rivers unite (and separate) but boys may join to race and play on…
