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Fashions of The Aesthetic Movement - A Cult of Beauty and Victorian Counterculture

The Aesthetic Movement was a counterculture of artists, writers, and designers in Victorian England who opposed the dehumanization of the Industrial Age. Aesthetic fashion stood against the stiffness of corsets and Victorian materialism, favoring a natural look based on medieval styles

26 comments    fashion history mass production
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Spinning Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches ever given. Would we remember it if it had been shorter?... or longer??

21 comments    civil war abraham lincoln
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STUFF AND THINGS - The 75 Things Movement, Minimalism and Freedom

The 75 Things Movement, Everett Bogue and the Zen Art of Minimalism may change my life! Stuff has been on my mind. Lots of stuff. All those things people collect around them! We behave like those little ocean crabs that don’t have a shell to...

55 comments    home improvement stuff things
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A Career in Medical Transcription - What You Need to Know Before You Decide

Medical transcription is a real work-at-home career. Learn if it's right for you. Included are job search resources.

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Top 10 Hot Jobs in Fast-Growing Snohomish County

Seattle Hill-Silver Firs is an unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington. The entire county is a beautiful landscape and the village of Seattle Hill-Silver Firs sits northeast of Mill Creek and a little southeast of the major City of...

5 comments    business jobs seattle
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A Portrait of Man's Best Friend - Dogs in Paintings and Art

Dogs have been man's faithful companions since the earliest of times, and their images have been recorded throughout the centuries. They have herded .our sheep, hunted hares and foxes for us, accompanied us on shooting expeditions, guarded us whilst we sleep, and provided affectionate friendship in good times and bad. Small wonder then, that paintings and drawings of our four-legged friends are so popular.....

34 comments    dog pompeii dog paintings
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Pre-Raphaelite Models - The Artists Muse

They were the WAGS of their day, the supermodels and catwalk queens of the nineteenth century. These demure, elegant women with their tumbling hair, elegant necks and doe eyes defined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style. Rossetti, Burne-Jones, William Hunt, Waterhouse and Millais all immortalised them on canvass in their tragic tales.

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The Michigan Dust Bowl - Big Prairie Desert

The Dust Bowl in Michigan began with a settlement in 1850 that created miles of desert by 1870 with the early logging indusry. Then a ladies' Cemetery Society brought new life to a dying land, creating useful green spaces and historic districts.

6 comments    travel american history
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A review of Don't Sleep, There are snakes

There is no book that explains the culture of the Amazon people better than Everett's best selling book titled, "Don't Sleep, there are snakes." The title comes from a common saying among the Pirahã people which believe it or not, is their equivalent to our "Goodnight." What atracted me to the book is the fact that the writer was a missionary who went to the amazon to try to convert the Pirahã people to Christianity but after living with them for a while, he discovered that he is the one that wa

5 comments    children culture americans
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Oscar Wilde: Brilliant AND Funniest Playwright

A bit about the witty Irish sardonic poet and playwright Oscar Wilde… Photo by DPMS @ flickr Where it all began: Ireland Well, one thing is evident; he had to be witty considering the name his parents...

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