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Stealing her style: Marie Antoinette

Ash blonde hair and Versailles blue...Marie Antoinette remains a fashion icon right up there with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Audrey Hepburn; which is rather impressive considering other historical figures of her time have fallen by the wayside and been long forgotten

0 comments    women fashion shoes
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Ringlet hairstyles, some history and their continuing popularity

The ringlet...more than Shirley Temple or Cindy Brady...a hairstyle popular since ancient Roman times that keeps coming back century after century...and still popular today! Take a look at ringlets in all their variety!

14 comments    curly hair styles ringlets
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Major Events in French History

“The history of France can be used as a blueprint defining the historical, cultural and social development of what we now recognise as modern European States....” Er..., I guess. Alternatively,...

0 comments    france world war ii roman
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The Secret Life of Nannerl Mozart

You've probably come to ask about Wolfgang. Most people do. For many years, I was afraid he'd been forgotten, but now that Salieri is dying, people have become curious about his earliest rival. My...

0 comments    family arts classical music
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Coiffures Francaises (or French Hairstyles)

To participate in the first ever Weekly HubMob topic All About Various Popular Hair Styles: Their history and how to create them, I thought it would be fun to explore the French Braid, in honor of my daughter...

15 comments    hair hairstyles hair styles
In 2007, my historical faction thriller "Nostradamus in Orval" (written in Dutch) was published.76

Nostradamus and the Lost Templar Treasure

Here is all the information you need, right out of the so-called prophecies of Nostradamus that are in reality a code, to start a true treasure hunt and find the Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar somewhere in the realms of the abbey of Orval, in Belgium.

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Watch Free Kirsten Dunst Movies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahkarina/439314707/ Reviewed by Rebecca Murray Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 I know nothing more about Marie Antoinette than I did going into Sofia Coppola's...

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This painting is called Daedalus and Icarus, by Fredrick Leighton (1830-1896).71

History of Flight

There are so many myths from ancient stories about how man learned to fly just like the birds. Most of us would have read old myths and legends. A Greek legend states that, Pegasus a winged horse was...

12 comments    wright leonardo da vinci glider
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Linderhof - King Ludwig's Palace

Linderhof is in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany and the smallest of the palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was the only one Ludwig saw finished. Ludwig used to go there with his father on...

4 comments    gardens fountain palace
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The Sexiest Cake I Ever Ate

"...Let them eat cake..." is widely attributed to Marie-Antoinette (1755-93), the Queen consort of Louis XVI. She is supposed to have said this when she was told that the French populace had no bread to eat....

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