Tailored and tightly fitting cargo trousers are much better looking than the older, bulky, big legged ones. What pant is humble enough that it has never been crowned fashionable? Cool enough that it is worn by artists and house painters? Functional and comfortable enough that it would be elected “the-pant-for-all-time” instead of fashion for […]
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Royal Copenhagen China has beautiful design. (The teapot and formal tea cup are good examples.) The Story of Royal Copenhagen by Evelyn Marie Stuart Early in the 20th century surprisingly life-like little porcelain animals, in soft gray and white or tan and white, were the first Royal Copenhagen objects to enliven upscale department stores in the United […]
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Photographer AIDA MULUNEH – There is an almost otherworldly doubling in these photographs (below), which show two iterations of the same figure: one faces the camera and raises a hand in a gesture of salutation, while the other looks ahead. In Muluneh’s photograph, “All in One” (above), a single figure embodies multiplicity through the addition […]
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Hello! March and April are “crocus season”, nature’s announcement that Spring is indeed coming. This winter in the US has been one of the most peculiar on record, from bone-chilling cold, snow and ice plunging deep into the southern states, to wicked nor’easters in the northern Atlantic states, to dramatic fluctuations in temperates, everywhere, from […]
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There are similar dishes called Texas Caviar, Mississippi Caviar, Alabama Caviar, Georgia Caviar, Tennessee Caviar, Arkansas Caviar, etc. But… “SOUTHERN CONFETTI SALAD” best describes the colorful, fresh and delicious flavors of our vegan salad. Traditionally Southerners eat Black-Eyed Peas on New Years Day. Our family certainly makes this salad to start the new year, but we also make it […]
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Currently operating as the Palmer House – A Hilton Hotel, it is a Historic Hotel of America member, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Palmer House was the city’s first hotel with elevators and the first hotel with electric light bulbs and telephones in the guest rooms. It has also […]
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The CAMERA OBSCURA The dictionary definition: 1) A darkened box with an aperture (convex lens) for projecting the image of the external scene onto a surface inside, based on the way our eyes see. It is important historically, because the concept lead to the development of photography once film was invented. 2) A small round […]
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BOOKCASES WARM UP A HOUSE! For a smart looking home you need to show of your source of knowledge, books. Here are 17 new and different ways to build and design bookcases into your home and one library worthy of a grand university. For more interesting […]
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</ifr Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. ( listen)) is an Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury supercars, sports cars, SUVs based in Sant’Agata Bolognese and tractors Lamborghini Trattori in Pieve di Cento, Italy. Few know that the company is owned by Volkswagen through its subsidiary Audi. Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 to compete with Ferrari. The company gained wide acclaim in 1966 for the Miura sports coupé, […]
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GRAPHIC DESIGNER MIRKO ILIC Ilić was born in Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, and graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb. He published his first works in 1973, publishing comics and illustrations in magazines and was the art and comics editor of the students’ magazine Polet in 1976. He organized an informal organization of comic book creators Novi kvadrat (The New […]