21 hours ago by Ireferny

This glass is more than merely antique; in fact it’s literally ancient. While glass itself may first have been invented and used by the ancient Phoenicians, where Lebanon is today, the earliest known examples of glassware actually come from ancient Egypt. During the Old Kingdom, glass was mixed with ...

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2 days ago by Sue

By Contributing Columnist Linda GJ aka Linda GJ While writing this article, I truly got a natural high taking all these pics and wish I could have taken more, even though there are certainly a lot! While I was ...

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2 days ago by Rich

I sat down with a friend over coffee recently and, in the course of conversation, told her about a new pair of boots I had bought. I described them. She sighed. I sketched them. She furrowed her brow. I mimicked their shape with my hands. She looked at me like I was nuts. The problem was that we did ...

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2 days ago by Fernando Mendes

The Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) is one of the best known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a small interior chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The Capela dos Ossos was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk who, in the Counter-Reformation spir ...

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3 days ago by Susan de Guardiola

Arbeau speaks relatively briefly about the tourdion (often anglicized to "tordion"), the dance that followed the basse danse as the galliard follows the pavane, in his 1589 work Orchésographie. But he does give two variations, which I am covering for the sake of completeness. For details of the rhyt ...

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5 days ago by Charlotte Evans

Henry Tudor’s victory at Bosworth Field was an unlikely outcome. The young earl of Richmond had lived in exile abroad since he was fourteen years old. He also had a relatively weak claim to the throne and a modest army of supporters, some 2000 mercenaries and a handful of rebells . His opponent, Ric ...

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7 days ago by qtylifestyle

Psychologist Dr Richard Wiseman said the specter, strength establish to be a bounteous discovery. He said,’It could be the prizewinning specter sighting ever. I haven’t seen anything that would match that at all.’ The skeptics, of course, modify the images on the closed-circuit TV photos as meet the ...

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8 days ago by seemytongue

The Lord is onely my support, and he that doth me feede: How can I then lacke any thing, wherof I stand in neede. He doth me folde in coates most safe, the tender grasse fast by: And after driues me to the streames, which runne most pleasauntly. And when I feele my selfe neare lost, then doth he me ...

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8 days ago by Los Angeles Magician

I found this article all about where the Christmas tree came from. Since I needed some stuff for this blog and since I have my very unique Christmas Mannequin, I thought I’d share it with you. The picture of my Christmas Mannequin is at the bottom. Also, don’t forget to book me for your company’s ho ...

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10 days ago by slightlyignorant

History is a vast and incomprehensible mystery to me in many ways. We have facts about things that have happened in the past – we have dates, records of events, paintings reproducing the faces involved in those events, poems and diaries devoted to giving opinions and preserving what happened in a bi ...

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