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Travel agency online with great deals to France

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:10:28 GMT

clipped by: TravelOct
clipper's remarks: What more can you ask for? This travel agency supplied me with all of the information I needed for my vacation to Paris, France.

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Paris, France

Paris is like a canvas that an artist has been painting for 2,000 years, blending the old with the new, the serene with the glamorous. Grand palaces, heroic and tragic figures, creative geniuses, and even legendary cuisine all have their place in the masterpiece that is this city. Artists like Mozart, Monet, and Hemingway have flocked to it for centuries seeking inspiration. The on-going courtship between past, present, and future creates vistas of ancient monuments rising up next to chic boutiques launching the haute new trends. Museums overflowing with treasures share plazas

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Suomi kestaa

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:17:50 GMT

clipped by: pekkasaukkonen
clipper's remarks: mutta vaikutuksitta emme selviydy.

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Asiantuntijat: Suomi kestää finanssikriisin iskut

Suomi on valmis ottamaan vastaan sen, mitä maailmantalouden mahdollinen taantuma tielle heittää, talouden asiantuntijat arvioivat. Monet talouden avainseikat ovat muuttuneet Suomessa 1990-luvun alun lamasta, jolloin työttömyys räjähti ja yrityksiä lakosi konkurssiaallossa.

Suomen julkinen talous on tällä hetkellä ylijäämäinen, mikä tuo valtiolle pelivaraa vaikeina aikoina. Rahoitusmarkkinoiden kriisissä myös Suomen pankkien vakavaraisuus ja vähäiset luottotappiot nousevat arvoonsa. Lisäksi euro on vähemmän altis valuuttakurssiriskille kuin markka oli aikoinaan.

Jos Yhdysvaltain talous heikkenee, se heikentää myös Suomen näkymiä, kun vienti alkaa piiputtaa, teollisuustuotanto ja ajan myötä myös työllisyys laskevat. Toisaalta euron heikkeneminen dollariin nähden tukee vientiyritysten kilpailukykyä.

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The Impressionists

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:50:07 GMT

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Taking their name from Claude Monet's 'Impression, Sunrise', the Impressionists were established in Paris during the 1870's.

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Impression: soleil levant
Claude Monet

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Concentrating on relaying the immediate visual effect of the world around them, using bold brush strokes and contrasts of colour, the artists initially drew heavy criticism for their perceived naive and trivial approach to art.

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The subject matter varied from Monet's landscapes to Renoir's boulevards of bustling Paris life and Degas' delicate ballerinas, but all pertained to capture the impression of the moment.

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The Artist's Studio (1870)
© Archivo Iconografico, S.A./CORBIS

The Family Reunion (1867)
© Archivo Iconografico, S.A./CORBIS

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In the Box (ca. 1879)
© Francis G. Mayer/CORBIS

The Letter (1890-1891)
© Philadelphia Museum of Art/CORBIS

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Click here
for an interactive tour of this painting

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Click here
for an interactive tour of this painting

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Click here
for an interactive tour of this painting

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Don’t Know Much About History

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:34:19 GMT

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Relying on recent events to teach us historical truths is a perilous business. History needs room — lots of room — for perspective. Divining lessons from the experiences of the last few generations is like describing a Monet landscape with one’s nose touching the canvas. Those colors and dabs are pretty, but they just won’t make sense until you back up and experience them from a distance.

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some flower quotes

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:54:34 GMT

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Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~Susan Polis Shutz

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Monet - Houses of Parliament , London

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:46 GMT

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Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-01

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Garbage Art

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:17:28 GMT

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Why waste money and add to the world’s waste by buying art materials when there are so many strange and interesting objects out there to use for design projects instead? From small found objects to entire abandoned houses, the sky is the limit when it comes to the palettes of these amazing trash artists. Their subject matter is about as varied as their material choices, ranging from self-portraiture and crushed can paintings to imitations of Monet’s masterpieces and gigantic sculpture parks.

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Bastille Day (NOT Independence Day)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:31:00 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Bastille Day falls during the Tour de France and is traditionally a day on which French riders try to take a stage victory for France, working harder than they might otherwise. Any stage victory in the Tour by a Frenchman has become cause for celebration, as victories have become rare for the French since Bernard Hinault stopped riding the Tour.

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Bastille Day

is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French nation

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On 30 June 1878, a feast had been set in Paris by official decision to honour the Republic (the event was immortalised by a painting by Claude Monet).

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On the 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect; the events of the day included a military review in Longchamp, a reception in the Chambre of Deputies, organised and presided by Léon Gambetta, and a Republican Feast in the pré Catelan with Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo. All through France, as Le Figaro wrote on the 16th, "people feasted a lot to honour the Bastille"

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official on 6 July 1880,

"celebrated with all the brilliance that the local resources allow".

in 1880 were particularly magnificent

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Make Monet At Home Free

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:03:26 GMT

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There is a immediate growing trend for people who want to work from home. Many large organisation as well as growing companies are finding it easier and more cost effective to allow their employees to work at home. These companies do not have to provide office space, thus saving on rental cost and the employees can save money on commuting, child care and office clothing. It is really a win win situation for all because the employee is happier now they can spend time with their family and the employer saves money.

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Monet

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:57:19 GMT

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A Monet Sets a Record: $80.4 Million

By CAROL VOGEL

Andy Rain/European Pressphoto Agency

“Le Bassin aux Nymphéas,” the record-breaking Monet.

A record price for a Monet, $80.4 million, was set for one of the rarest of his waterlilies at one of the largest London sales Christie’s has held.

Monet "Le Bassin aux Nympheas" Sold For Big Money

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:21:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Monet Lilies Painting Sells for Record $79 Million

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June 24 (Bloomberg) -- A Claude Monet painting of water lilies sold tonight for a record 40.1 million pounds ($79 million) with fees at Christie's International in London.

Monet's 6-foot, 7-inch-wide canvas, ``Le Bassin aux Nympheas,'' dating from 1919, had been expected to sell for between 18 million pounds and 24 million pounds, said Christie's. The auction house said the seller had been guaranteed an unspecified minimum price.

The Monet picture was the second-most expensive painting sold at a European auction, after the Rubens work ``The Massacre of the Innocents'' in July 2002, bought by newspaper magnate Ken Thomson for 49.5 million pounds.

A weak dollar and strong demand from new Russian buyers have encouraged Americans to sell Impressionist works in the U.K. capital. The Monet was part of a group of 17 works entered from the estate of the late J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller, collectors from Columbus, Indiana. Their paintings had not been seen on the market for several decades.

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Monet

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:03:54 GMT

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Where is the alien Bach?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:51:52 GMT

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Every once and a while, someone asks the question: if there are aliens out there, and they are visiting us here, why haven't they shown us evidence of their cultural achievements, such as music, or art, or literature? In short, where is the alien Mozart, or Bach, or Shakespeare, or Monet?

There is one final possibility - perhaps an alien culture would be, you know, "alien", in the sense that they would have vastly different priorities and concerns than we do. Maybe music, and art, and literature, are meaningless to them, in the same way that they hold little or no meaning for some human beings?

Maybe, just maybe, we should be looking for an alien Jenna Jamieson ... and maybe, just maybe, given the number of alien abduction encounters that include a sexual element, we've already had one!

Impressionist Giverny

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:44:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: American painters in France

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Florence Griswold Museum hosts 'Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France'(Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:59:21 GMT-5)

OLD LYME, CT - The Florence Griswold Museum is the first venue for Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885–1915, an exhibition of over fifty works organized by the Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny. The exhibition tells the story of the expatriate colony founded by American artists in the village of Impressionist master Claude Monet. Attracted by the presence of the Impressionist master Claude Monet, who settled in Giverny in 1883, an international community of artists flocked there from the late 1880s through World War I. More than 70% were Americans. On exhibition through 27 July, 2008.

Famous Home Schoolers

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:55:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: funny how so many of the people from the past that we admire were at least partially educated outside of the public school system

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Leonardo da Vinci

Claude Monet

Felix Mendelssohn

Irving Berlin

Frederick Terman (Stanford University President)

William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President)

Stonewall Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Douglas MacArthur

George Patton

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

James Madison

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

John Tyler

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Blaise Pascal

Booker T. Washington

Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

Hans Christian Andersen

Agatha Christie

Charles Dickens

C.S. Lewis

George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Daniel Webster

Phillis Wheatley

John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)

William Houston (Lawyer)

William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)

Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)

Will Rogers (Humorist)

Leo Tolstoy

Sally Ride (Astronaut)

John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)

Charles Chaplin (Actor)

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