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14
Jun
2009
Start Collect Your Vintage Perfume Bottles Now!  

19 days ago by Gina

While the innovative shape of today’s womens parfume bottles can be quite eye catching, not anything compares to the precision and artwork that antique perfume bottles possess. While some perfumes and scented oils were held in simple jars, the evolution of the perfume bottle has since escalated into ...

Just For Women Blog - justforwomenblog.com · 3 references

03
Jun
2009
Vanity Fair  

31 days ago by RatLa

The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep he ...

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29
May
2009
I Love Touring Paris - the Second Arrondissement  

36 days ago by SauvignonBlanc

The second arrondissement is situated on the Right Bank of the Seine River. It is Paris’s smallest arrondissement, covering less than 0.4 square miles (slightly under a square kilometer). Its population is under twenty thousand, but this district provides over sixty thousand jobs, the highest job de ...

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21
May
2009
Schwimm, Schwamm, Schwumm  

43 days ago by beineckepoetry

Illustrated plates from a German primer on swimming. Carl Purkart, Vorschriften fu ̈r den Schwimmunterricht (Mu ̈nchen, 1826)

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10
May
2009
Antique Porcelain From Low Countries, Scandinavia and Switzerland  

54 days ago by admin

In the 18th century, as the fashion for porcelain reached its peak, many porcelain factories were established outside Germany and France, the main centres of production. Many new factories were founded by arcanists, modellers, … » Read more >>Antique Porcelain From Low Countries, Scandinavia and Swi ...

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Antique Meissen Porcelain after 1800  

54 days ago by admin

Meissen The attempts by Count Marcolini, director of Meissen from 1774, to improve the quality of Meissen porcelain were not entirely successful, and at the beginning of the 19th century the factory was still in decline. … » Read more >>Antique Meissen Porcelain after 1800 « Posted in Porcelain

Antique collectors - antcollectors.com · 1 reference

01
May
2009
Crash Diets - History and Reality  

64 days ago by James Bourque

By Tess Thompson It is not surprising that people prefer crash diets over exercise in their quest for weight reduction. It is a natural human tendency to first look for an easy way out even if it is risky. It is probably because of this human trait that fad diets, crash diets and weight loss supplem ...

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29
Apr
2009
Sanford Family Diaries Now Available Online  

66 days ago by John Warren

The Sanford collection, which was donated to the NYS Library last summer, consists of nine manuscript journals, a small group of letters, and a manuscript recipe book. Nathan Sanford (that's him at left) was Chancellor of NYS from 1823-1826, a NYS Assemblymember and Senator, US attorney general, and ...

New York History - newyorkhistoryblog.com · 9 references

26
Apr
2009
Facts About Koi Fishes And How To Take Care Of Them  

69 days ago by Chuck

Copyright © 2009 Chuck. Visit the original article at http://getit4pets.com/pets/fish/facts-about-koi-fishes-and-how-to-take-care-of-them/. Many lovers of domesticated and ornamental fishes are very much aware that one of the best kinds of decorative fishes, if you want to call it that way, is the K ...

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24
Apr
2009
Mineral Exploration Companies Take the Road of Bones to New Resources  

71 days ago by admin

Andrew Burger asked: Across the North Pacific from western Canada, prospects of mineral wealth are drawing North American miners to Russia’s Far East, one of a number of natural resources-rich areas of the world where climate, as well as political and economic change, is opening up new opportunities ...

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