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Feb 24, 2020
If you don't fall 10 times, then you are not learning it right!
There’s only 20 days to Springtime! There’s only 20 days to Springtime, though the deep blanket of snow covering the road on my way to...
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Jan 9, 2020
"Rosie the Riveter", the timeless icon
During the World War II, more than six million American women made significant contributions by going to work at plants that produced...
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Oct 18, 2019
Meet the legendary "Unsinkable Sam"
Let me introduce you the cat who survived 3 sinking ships! It is said that cats have nine lives. If so, there has been one very lucky in...
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Feb 23, 2019
Brigitte Helm: the woman behind the screen vamp
The cool-eyed screen vamp was lucky enough to act during the glory days of the German film industry. Sometimes I get asked by people I...
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Nov 18, 2018
Mickey Mouse: 90 and still going strong!
On November 18th 1928 Mickey Mouse was born. Let’s celebrate together his 90th anniversary! Dear Mickey Mouse, you turn 90 years old...
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Oct 26, 2018
The George Grantham Bain Collection
Taking photos is a hobby that seems to involve many people nowadays. Instagram is full of talented photographers who, thanks to their...
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Jun 10, 2018
The time-capsule apartment
I well remember the first time I read about this story: I was sitting in a bar drinkig a delicious cup of cappuccino, with the...
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May 10, 2018
The Art Deco movement
Art Deco can be described as "an assertively modern style that ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than...
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Apr 10, 2018
Alphonse Mucha, the Spirit of Art Nouveau
To the lovers of beautiful things … you are in the right place! In today’s post I would like to drag you into a world of allure and...
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Nov 9, 2017
I have a thing for vintage posters ...
The intensity of the colours used and the oddity of these prints will hit you at first sight. I have a thing for vintage lithographic...
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Sep 28, 2017
When the private becomes public ...
At the end of the XIX Century, the use of advertising posters exploded. These forms of advertisement were not just intended to market a...
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Jun 22, 2017
Erté, the trend-setter of the 1920s
Romain de Tirtoff (aka Erté) was born in St Petersburg in 1892. He grew up in a well-to-do upper class family and as a little boy he was...
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Jan 10, 2017
The Ace of Aces: the Red Baron
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave — Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918) In my very first post (The...
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Nov 7, 2016
Women who followed their dreams: Amelia Earhart
There have been women in history to which we owe most of the status we have reached today. These reckless women who fought against...
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