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Halloween Costumes and their evolution over the decades
Halloween costumes have evolved significantly over the decades, drawing inspiration from social trends, popular culture and major...
Oct 29, 2024
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Kitty, you have been cast!
"The biggest invitation to bad luck ever seen in one place" - LIFE magazine, 1961 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your...
May 15, 2024
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The Art of Italian Aperitivo was born in Milan
Aperitivo, the beloved Italian pre-dinner ritual, has been gaining popularity around the world in recent years. It is a time-honoured...
Mar 8, 2024
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...
The year-end is always a time for celebration and festivities. With the year coming to a close, it’s time for fresh beginnings and a time...
Dec 22, 2023
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Made for America
In the winter of 2004 an exhibition of vintage photographs from the Time-LIFE photo archive entitled "Made for America" took place at the...
Mar 6, 2023
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Imaging women of the future ... in 1902
What People in 1902 thought "women of the future" would look like. In 1902, French artist and manufacturer Albert Bergeret released a set...
Nov 22, 2022
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Suntan and Ice Cream. Sorry, we are closed!
Sunbathing at beautiful beaches ... rowdy backyard barbecues and hanging with friends have always been my favourite activity during the...
Aug 15, 2022
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Take me back to the future with your electric car!
The electric car is nothing new. History reminds us that the first motor vehicles produced were not those powered by oil, they were...
Jul 10, 2022
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I wish your basket is full of Easter dreams!
Chocolate bunnies, outdoor tasty brunch, cakes baking, eggs hunting, eggs dyeing, the easter tree … these are just a few of the many...
Apr 13, 2022
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The seductive design of Art Deco posters
"An assertively modern style that ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded...
May 30, 2021
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"L'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900"
I never underestimate the power of a picture when this can make me travel back in time, through my memories. Usually, this step back in...
Sep 30, 2020
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Spindizzies: amazing miniature racing cars
Looking at first glance those miniature cars resemble very much to a toy. But they weren’t at all! They were true pieces of art...
Aug 5, 2020
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Living the "Ligurian Riviera" Life
“The blue of the water of one of the most beautiful seas in Italy lays the coast, made of rocks, Mediterranean scrub and pastel colours...
Jul 14, 2020
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Dreaming of a new "Golden Age"
The Belle Époque (a.k.a "Beautiful Era" or "Golden Age") was a peaceful and economic prosperity period that started in 1871 and ended...
Jun 3, 2020
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The golden age of the Cotton Club
Let's talk about the most popular Speakeasy Club in New York City during Prohibition era It’s with "The Best" of Duke Ellington in the...
May 17, 2020
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The 1920s Speakeasy Clubs
100 years ago today the Volstead Act went into effect leading to Prohibition around the USA “I am just a businessman giving the people...
Apr 9, 2020
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A place that stole my heart: St. Moritz
Small, cozy, and and 322 Sunny Days a Year. Saint Moritz is a jewel amidst the Upper Engadin lakes district in the southern side of the...
Mar 7, 2020
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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...
Feb 24, 2020
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