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19
Nov
2009
An ear for music

2 days ago by David Guion

Lest anyone doubts that Rossini's music was once deemed contemptible by lovers of classical music, English publisher Vincent Novello visited Europe in 1829 with the hope of hearing good music (specifically Mozart) in the land of its birth. He was disappointed. In Mannheim, he noted in his journal, " ...

Musicology for Everyone - music.allpurposeguru.com · 1 reference

18
Nov
2009
The Maid’s Development

3 days ago by garage

The Unfashionable Hoosier cabinet from the nineteenth century in generally considered the ancestor of the Kitchen Housemaid cabinet of the young ordinal century. Ordinal century woodwork ordinarily inhibited set to domiciliate items similar flour, edulcorate and other staples. A times dwell for as u ...

Garage - Build A Garage - garagesworld.com · Rank: 89,235

14
Nov
2009
Rossini overtures

7 days ago by David Guion

During the latter part of the nineteenth century until the latter part of the twentieth, most of Rossini's operas (the chief exception being The Barber of Seville) disappeared from the repertoire. Many of their overtures, at the same time, became mainstays of the orchestral repertoire. It is therefo ...

Musicology for Everyone - music.allpurposeguru.com · 1 reference

09
Nov
2009
Untitled

11 days ago by AJS

Gotter Bolt asked: Fashion Belt. A brief Introduction to Fashion Belt. Fashion belt is a wearing accessories that is used for fashion. It creates additional attraction to any wearing apparels. It can make an outfit totally different in style for a great looking. History of the fashion belts: Althoug ...

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A Peoples History of Poverty in America The New Press Peoples Histories

12 days ago by admin

A Peoples History of Poverty in America The New Press Peoples Histories A sweeping, revelatory history of poverty in America from the nineteenth century to today, told through the eyes and experiences of the poor themselves. “When you live in a shelter, other people control your life. They tell you ...

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Disney’s A Christmas Carol

12 days ago by Luke Harrington

There are few things that Walt Disney Pictures wears more proudly on its sleeve than its complete and utter lack of new ideas. Not only is Walt’s legacy based almost entirely on adapting literature and folklore, but since his death the studio has repeatedly cannibalized its own past with an almost f ...

MovieZeal - moviezeal.com · Rank: 85,119 · 61 references

05
Nov
2009
Persuasion by Jane Austen

16 days ago by BookClubOfOne

Persuasion was Austen's last book and was not published until after her death. It was also the only one her books I had not read, so now I have collected them all. I'm as happy as a small boy with a completed album full of football stickers. Seven years before the start of the novel, Anne Elliot was ...

Book Club Of One - bookclubof1.blogspot.com · 1 reference

"In these days of inventions and of sea-serpents . . ."

16 days ago by gail

The nineteenth century spawned a wealth of peculiar inventions. This website deals (in great detail) with the poison harpoons and lances that were invented at the height of the whaling era. Here's a sample: In August 1833 an inventor calling himself "Mechanicus" described a hand-darted poison harpoo ...

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04
Nov
2009
Ladies and Gentlemen

17 days ago by [Victoria Olsen]

This image is part of a new and novel exhibition of Victorian Photocollage at the Art institute of Chicago this fall. It's an example of the kind of constructed photographs that upper-middle-class and aristocratic women in England made and kept in scrapbooks to show friends. The collages are amazing ...

Close Readings - victoriaolsen.com/blog

03
Nov
2009
Antique Car Show Schedule: How To Never Miss An Antique Car Show

18 days ago by Center Caps For Rims

Over a century has passed since the automobiles became a part of our lives and from the time that the first four-wheeled contraptions hit the roads sometime in the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present a lot of water has flown under the bridge. It is hardly surprising then to learn that ...

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