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76Marianne 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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82Grand Tours - Eighteenth Century Gentleman's Gap Year
If you thought the Gran Tourismo was a console game for the Xbox360 then think again. The original Grand Tour was the rite of passage for the sons of Europe’s Aristocrats in the years between 1660 and...
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70Rococo 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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64Freelance writing jobs - How to read the Adverts
Every lunch hour I put away my writing for an hour have something to eat and search the job sites, message boards and forums for freelance jobs,. You can never be sure just when you are going to need some...
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69Canal Boat Holidays - Wales's Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal
Take things easy by hiring a narrow boat and take a relaxing canal trip along the Welsh Brecon and Monmouthshire canal. Nothing can be more peaceful than to sit on the deck of a canal barge as it drifts along...
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79Lady 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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70Dada - A hundred years of Counter Culture
Dada, an art movement created out of the fighting of the First World War, the begining of the Counter culture and anti-art movements.
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79Five 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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67Australian, French Impressionist Artist
Australian Painter, Rupert Bunny moved to Paris in 1886 and created some definative images of pre-war opulance of the city. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Fauvists and Neoclassical movements he left a rich, ecletic body of work.
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54Language Package Tour- Learn as you Travel
Language tours and learning to use a foreign language as part of an organised package tour these days,it is an ever increasing and popular way to come into contact with another countries people, its language and culture. What to look out for.
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