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October 31, 2009
In today’s Guardian, Nicky Woolf has written a wonderful article about the birth of world tourism. Here are some of the highlights:
In 1833, William Henry Fox Talbot conceived the photographic process, after becoming frustrated with his inability to draw.
Photographs of exotic far-off places first came available in the 1850’s. Demand for these sorts of photographs [...]
Categories: Africa, Art, Black Africa, Britain, Culture, Drawing, Europe, Expats, Famous People, Germany, Italy, Luxury Travel, Middle East, North Africa, Third World, Travel, Uncategorized
Tags: Astor House Hotel, Aswan, Bath England, birth of tourism, Brussels, Cairo, China, colonial expansion, Davos Switzerland ski resort, Egypt 1850's, Egypt photos 1850's, Empire Hotel 1880's, England, exotic locales, exotic peoples, First Opium War, first ski resorts, Florence, France, Frankfurt, Germany, Holy Land photos, Hong Kong, inability to draw, Italy, middle-class travelers, midnight sun, Niagara Falls, Nice France, Nile River Cruises in the 1800's, opulent steamships, Ottoman Empire photos, Paris, photographs of exotic places, photography in the 1850's, pyramids, rail travel, Renaissance Italy, resorts in Nice European royal families, Rhine cruises, Rhine River, Rome, Scandanvavian fjord cruises in the 1870's, Shanghai China, Singapore, Thomas Cook, travel in the 1800's, travel in Victorian times, Venice, Victorian travel destinations, William Forsythe, William Henry Fox Talbot
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October 15, 2009
Categories: Animal Behavior, Animals, Cat Behavior, Cats, Children, Families, Fun, Life, Love, Pet Behavior, Pets, Uncategorized
Tags: love between pets, monkeys, pet cat, pet monkey, Pets
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September 18, 2009
This harvest festival takes place in Tomar every four years, in July.
A very nice concise write-up of the Festival (in English), by Rosa, can be found HERE.
A longer write-up (in English) can be found on the middle section of THIS PAGE, under “FESTA DOS TABULEIROS.”
–Posted by Madame Monet
Categories: Art, Brazil, Celebrations, Colonial Period, Colors, Colors and Music, Cosumes, Culture, Dance, Dancing and Art, Dresses, Europe, Expats, Families, Fashion, Fashion and Design, Favorite Recipes, Festivals, Food, Food Safety, Foods Around-the-World, France, Friends, Fun, Games, Geography, Germany, Getting Dressed Up, Gourmet Cooking, Gourmet Food, Holland, Honeymoon Ideas, Inspirational, International, Life, Lifestyle, Mediterranean Festivals, Porto, Porto Cruz Tawny, Portugal, Portuguese Wine, Roses, Spain, Travel, Women, artists, flowers
Tags: Angola, Family vacation ideas, flowers, Harvest festivals, Honeymoon in Portugal in July, Mozambique, Paper Flowers, Portugese Festivals, summer festivals, Tomar
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July 22, 2009
Starting in India, and continuing across China, and the Pacific Ocean, the total eclipse of 2009 was the most spectacular, most viewed (due to it’s passing over heavily-populated areas), and lasted as long as six minutes and 39 seconds in some places.
People all over India gathered in open spaces, and although the eclipse passed [...]
Categories: American Composer, American Culture, American Music, Art, Asia, Brad Pitt, Carly Simon, Celebrities, Celebrity Relationships, China, Expats, Famous, Famous People, Fun, India, International, Interpersonal Realtionships, Japan, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Men, Relationships, Thailand, Third World, Travel, U.S.A., Women, artists
Tags: 1970's rock and roll, 2009 eclipse Asia, 2009 eclipse India, Bangladesh, Brad Pitt, China, Mick Jagger, Nepal, number one song 1973, phtos 2009 total solar eclipse, rock and roll, Warren Beatty, watching 2009 solar eclipse, You're So Vain
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June 22, 2009
I didn’t write this, but received it as an interesting email forward:
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly [...]
Categories: England, Europe, Middle Ages, Uncategorized
Tags: ale, bacon, bath water, bathing, bed bugs, bouquets, bridal, brides, canope beds, chewing the fat, Cooking, Couples, dead ringer, dirt floors, don't throw the baby out with the bath water, family bath, flowers, funerals, gardening, graveyard shft, Irish Wake, kettle, lead cups, Marriage, morgue, nursery rhymes, origin of Wake, peas porridge, pewter dishes, poisonous tomatoes, pork, raining cats and dogs, reuse of coffins, saved by the bell, scratch marks on insides of coffin, stew, straw on floors, the upper crust, thresh hold, wake, whiskey
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May 30, 2009
Many people are no longer coming home, turning on the TV, and flipping channels to see what’s on. Instead, they sit down in front of the computer.
Even before checking email, many people now go to Facebook, just to see if anything is new on their home page, or to see which of their [...]
Categories: Friends, Fun, Games, Global Economy, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Tags: addiction to gaming, blogging, blogging suffering, Business, business trends, computer games, current trends, England, Facebook Games, Families, fewer people watching TV, future trends, gaming addiction, getting behind in blogging, India, Japan, keeping up with blogging, leisure time, Mafia Wars, new trends, Philippines, relaxing, Spy Wars, trends in leisure time, U.S.A., wasting time, watching TV, ways of relaxing, World War II, YoVille
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May 23, 2009
Today I had time to take some of the fun quizzes on Facebook. Here is what I’ve learned about myself: My dream home is a Southern Antebellum Mansion. My Euro-Persona is French, but my International Personality is actually American. My true age is 46 (not bad for 53), and my ideal career [...]
Categories: Friends, Fun, Fun Tests, Life, Lifestyle, Light Reading, Uncategorized
Tags: Adventureland, Brad Pitt, Cars, Disneyland, France, Honda Insight, ideal career, peace sign, secret societies, Skull and Bones, Southern antebellum mansions, teacher, Teaching, telepathy
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May 21, 2009
Last night’s wine tasting was lots of fun. Our host had five reds, all of different prices and different countries. He asked us to try to guess which country, after tasting each. We started the tasting with deveiled eggs, pita bread and cheeses to nibble on with the first bottle of wine.
Here was our first. [...]
Categories: Beverages, France, French Wine, Moroccan Wines, Morocco, North Africa, North African Cuisine, North African Culture, Spain, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Surprises, Wine Tastings
Tags: Beni Mtir, Bonassia Cabernet Sauvingnon 2008 - Morocco, California, California Wine, Castel Wine, Castilla, Castille, Cotes du Rhone Grenache-Syrah 2007, deviled eggs, Don Simon Seleccion Tempranillo, Edam cheese, Famille Castel, Greek wine, meatballs, Monterrey Jack Cheese, Moroccan Cabernets, North African Wine, pita bread, Portugal, Red Wine, Retsina, Spain, Spanish Wine, sweet red Greek wine, Syrah, Tempranillo, Tommasi Viticoltori Bardolino 2006, Verona, Vino de la Tierra de Castilla, Western Cellars 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon - California
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May 9, 2009
After trying both Mafia Wars and YoVille, I find that YoVille is SO much more fun. Both are online games through Facebook that many people of all ages are playing now.
A freind in America told me how much he enjoyed Mafia Wars, so I decided to try it. I didn’t like the jobs or fighting, [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Facebook Games, Fun, Mafia Wars, online games, real time games, YoVille
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April 17, 2009
Moorish Courtyard, by American Oil Painter John Singer Sargent (painted in 1913)
I asked my Moroccan husband to take a look at this famous painting and tell me whether he thought it actually looked like Morocco. According to Christie’s auction house, “Moorish Courtyard was probably conceived in Granada in the autumn of 1912 when Sargent [...]
Categories: Art, Drawing, Europe, Expats, France, Houses in Morocco, Landscape Paintings, Landscapes, Middle East, Moors, Moroccan Architecture, Moroccan Culture, Morocco, North Africa, Oil Painting, Tangier, Third World, Uncategorized
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