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72Five unusual Christmas Festivals - Umbria, Italy
Umbria in the centre of Italy knows how to enjoy its Christmas time. There are many festivals, spectacoli and parades for one to enter into or simply stand by and watch. If you are looking for somewhere to go...
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8710 Unusual Festivals in Italy - Umbria/Tuscany Holiday
Parading at the Palio della Balestra in Sansepolcro The quite, peaceful and rural slopes of the Upper Tiber Valley, in the shadows of the Apennine Mountains are home to a number of unusual festas throughout...
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82VW Camper Vans - The Iconic Recreational Vehicle Tour Bus
History of the iconic Volkeswagon Camper Van. The recreational vehicle that made the 60's, gave the Surf Dudes a tour bus and made Little Miss Sunshine that much more fun.
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75Timecapsule - 10 things to put in.
If you were to bury a time capsule what would you put in it? This thought was bought on by thinking on the old Celtic, Egyptian and Viking burials where the hero of the hour was sent to the next life with...
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78Marianne North - Victorian Painter and Botanical Explorer
Think of great Victorian explorers and Darwin or Livingston spring to mind. Not a little middle-aged, old lady with a set of paint brushes and an easel in the heart of the Brazillian jungle. Well that was Marianne North for you.
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74Great War poets - Hedd Wyn
The Welsh poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans was born to Evan and Mary Evans on 13th January 1887 at Penlan near Trawsfynydd, Merionyddshire. Ellis was the eldest of eleven children in the family and better know by...
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81Lady Dada - Hannah Hoch, Female Artist
Born Joannes Hoch in 1889, Gotha in Germany, Hoch went on to become a leading female artists within the Dadaist movement, inventing Photomontage as an artform and defying social convention in 1920's - 30's Germany.
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76Baroque Artists - Caravaggio
Caravaggio was an innovative Baroque painter from the 17th Century, born Michaelangelo Merisi in Caravaggio, near Milan in 1571. He studied under Simone Peterzano for four years and then in 1590 he moved to...
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72Rococo Portrait Painter - Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera was one of the more commercially successful and accomplished female artist during the 18th century, Rococo period. As a portrait painter and pastellist, she developed the technique of...
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75The Other Florence Nightingale - Mary Seacole
A remarkable Jamacian woman who was born in 1805 who went on to become a renowned nurse during the Crimean War, friend to soldiers and Princes alike.
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