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The True Story Behind the West Toughest Trousers - La vera storia dei 'jeans'.
Gruppo di minatori di una cava di ghiaia fotografati nel 1895: ognuno di loro veste un paio di jeans Levi Strauss.Quest’oggi vi racconto una storia che ci porta molto, molto lontano nel tempo: con le...
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Agatha Christie's disappearance in 1926.
On Friday 3 December 1926, the English crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished from her home in Berkshire. It was the perfect tabloid story, with all the elements of one of Christie's own 'whodunnit'...
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...DAYS OF A TENDER SHOUT OF SUN ...HOARSE OF A THOUSAND WORDS...
I wrote this post so many months ago, but I want to publish it although so much time has passed.In this season, when a lot of little bunnies run around us in our lawns, woods and garden, my thoughts...
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The Mother of Mother's Day.
In the United States and in most of the world, including Italy, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May, and the origins of this holiday also take us back to the Victorian period.It was...
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♚ NOBLE MANSIONS AND CROWNS ♚ The Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl, Emperor Franz...
The Esplanade of Ischl by Rudolf von Alt,1840Like a gem among the gems set between the mountains that are dressed in mother-of-pearl at sunset waiting to turn gilded the next morning and the alpine...
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The Chalon Family in London by Jacques-Laurent Agasse.
"Humility and simplicity are the two real sources of beauty."Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Stendal, December 9, 1717 - Trieste, June 8, 1768)The Chalon Family in London by Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva,...
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Saturnia, Herald of the Beautiful Season, has eventually arrived!
They gave her a name filled with so much charm, she’s called ‘Saturnia’ as if she came from another planet to announce us the Beautiful Season coming, with its warmth and its beauty.She’s one of the...
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Victorian Houses: the Major Architectural Styles (part 1)
Victorians cared particularly fashions in house design, exactly as we have fashions in clothing or hair style — except that well-to-do Victorians took the design of their homes far more seriously than...
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Emily Dickinson's secret love: the mistery 'Master' of her heart.
“Titolo divino – è il mio! Quello di Moglie senza firma. Ecco – quello che dovevo 'dirti' – non lo dirai a nessun altro? L’Onore – è pegno di sé stesso... "(L250) 1Tutti noi che conosciamo la poesia...
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Victorian Houses: the Major Architectural Styles (part 2)
And here we are dealing again with the topic of the charming Victorian mansions that made the XIXth century so enchanting in the world of the British culture.Let's have a look, then, to the other...
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IL FIGLIO AMERICANO DI RODOLFO D'ASBURGO ~ L'intervista in diretta
AVVISO PER TUTTI GLI AMICI ED I LETTORI DI ~ My little old world ~Dopodomani terrò un'intervista in diretta su Fb durante la quale presenterò il saggio storico che, a fronte di anni di ricerche, ho...
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The "House of Worth"~Victorian Queens' and Empresses' gowns worth a fortune.
It was October 13th, 1825 when Charles Frederick Worth was born in a little town of the Lincolnshire, Bourne, in England.His was a modest family and he began to work, when still a young boy, as an...
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Even at the time of the 12 km per hour, everybody had got something against...
Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, September 1888One morning in June 1898, the faithful buyers of the Journal from Paris could read, not without shivering and shuddering with indignation, a vibrant open...
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After a walk in the fields, how about drinking a Regency Lemonade?
Maybe you don't know that there's a recipe book, so so ancient... it was penned in England between 1765 and 1830 and it's known as MS CODE 1038It's available on-line and as everything belonging to...
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Baron Alexander von Stieglitz's lavish mansion.
Would you like to come back in time and enter a luxurious residence dating back to the middle of the XIXth, maybe in the guise of a Lady?Well, the one you see in the mirror hanging at the top of the...
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The touching story of Princess Marie of Hesse, Queen Victoria's granddaughter.
They were so many the mournings Queen Victoria had to deal with: if it's true that's quite normal for long living people, it must be said that this tragic fate of hers began when her husband, Prince...
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LACROMA (Lokrum) the Cursed Island of the Habsburgs.
E’ su una distesa di onde la mia isolacinta di spume dell’Adriatico azzurro.Un verde balocco della naturacosì come lo sogna l’amore giovane1Quest’oggi vi parlo di un’isola che, tra tante che...
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Ancient Opera Glasses
"Excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous”Tolstòj, Lev Nikolàevič...
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Lord Byron & Countess Teresa Guiccioli ~ The Italian Love
He was George Byron, the great English poet, repudiated by his wife and driven by the aversion his London society now showed him to seek a new homeland in Italy; she was a countess from Romagna,...
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We're coming from Holland, the Land of Windmills...
Some time ago I found on the web this collection of images dating back to 1910, which I evaluate very 'precious'... and thus they really are considering that they speak to us of ancient traditions and...
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