Condivido questo delizioso post di ieri dell’amica Pat, che mi ha fatto sorridere.Ecco la traduzione: Leggi di fisica scarsamente comprese 1 . Legge della riparazione meccanica – Dopo che le tue mani saranno titte ricoperte di grasso, il tuo naso comincerà a prudere e avrai bisogno di fare pipì. 2. Legge di gravità – Qualsiasi… Read More ReBlog: “Poorly Understood Laws of Physics”
Cap. 8 – “Il bandito e il campione” – (19) La strana storia di amicizia tra il campionissimo Costante Girardengo e il bandito Sante Pollastri, nata per la comune passione per la bicicletta è stata poeticamente raccontata da Luigi Grechi e portata al successo da suo fratello Francesco De Gregori in una bellissima canzone dal… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾LX☽ 🖋️
Horatia Nelson and Philip Ward‘s married life was simple but stable and happy, and the couple were well-matched. As we have already seen, in 1830, twenty-nine years old Horatia Nelson Ward, who already had several children and was aware of the absolute need for a higher income, agreed to leave Norfolk for Kent, and the… Read More Horatia Nelson Ward (part 76)
During the Elizabethan age, the ‘golden age in English history’, the Queen was an icon of the beauty of the time with an impact never surpassed by any other English queen. Besides using the dangerous Venetian ceruse, (see here) Elizabeth I loved lipstick and on her death, also her lips were encrusted with a layer… Read More Queen Elizabeth I’s Lipstick
In 1562, Elizabeth I contracted smallpox which left her face pockmarked (see here). Since the queen had always been proud of her beauty, she feared this would spoil her image, showing a flawlessly fair skin, the typical look of the upper class, nobility and earthly perfection.Since she was aware that as the queen, she couldn’t… Read More Queen Elizabeth I & Venetian Ceruse (part 2)
“Where are you going on holyday this year?”This question in the past was customary exclusively among nobles or members of the upper class, the only ones able to afford one of the fascinating journeys of the Grand Tour, to discover the culture and art of different European peoples.But Thomas Cook opposed this “tourism for the… Read More The Father of Modern Tourism
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule — we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position.” Christine Stevens (born in St. Louis, Missouri on 10 March 1918) was an American conservationist and animal rights activist who used her position… Read More Christine Stevens: “Duchess of the Defenseless”
①As we know, “Me and Mrs. Jones” is about a man having a clandestine affair with a married woman, Mrs. Jones. The song deals with adultery, and adultery was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1973. In November 1972 as the new criminal code was being debated, an amendment that wanted to keep the crime of adultery… Read More Me and Mrs. Jones/2 – Observations
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 –1933) was an English novelist and playwright, whose most famous work is “The Forsyte Saga”. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. “The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and,… Read More Galsworthy
I am sometimes asked, ‘Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?’ I answer: ‘I am working at the roots.’ (*) George Thorndike Angell was born on 5 June 1823, and died in 1909. He was an American… Read More The Friend of Animals 🐶 🐱 🐰 🐴 🐹
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