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1) Moulin Rouge
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Henri de Toulouse-Latrec experienced a life of deformity and disappointment. He left an artistic legacy beyond praise or price. Though his friends were the great personages of his time, he was perpetually lonely. Though educated and witty his life was a continual and desperate search for romantic love and happiness.
Basis for the 1952 film starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor,...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did...
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A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City.
In a tiny enclave in the heart of Rome lies the world's smallest independent state-the Vatican. Over the course of fifteen hundred years, successive popes have commissioned and assembled an extraordinary collection of artistic works within Vatican walls.
Eminent expert Professor Enrico Bruschini takes...
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Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, thinks that's an open question.
During her ten years at the highest levels of the British government, she often found that she was the only conservative in the room. She witnessed, first-hand, the machinations of globalists who would like nothing more than to impose corporate state-socialism on the world. Freedom is at risk, she warns, and the Conservative...
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From crumpets to beans on toast, Cornish pasties to sausage rolls, fish and chips to cottage pie, spotted dick to rhubarb crumble, British cuisine is as unique as it comes and, despite many of the stereotypes about British food being bland or boring, the truth is, British foods whether a full English breakfast, Yorkshire pudding, strawberry trifle or cauliflower cheese, is packed full of flavorful ingredients that combine in some of the world's most...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
« Tout ce qui est évident, généralement, cache quelque chose qui ne l'est pas du tout, et c'est une grande qualité de l'esprit de considérer fort peu de choses comme évidentes », affirme Paul Valéry au détour du fastueux Cours de poétique qu'il a mené au Collège de France à la...
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"The only thing more sumptuous than Shauna and Danny's cooking is the spirited and spiritual prose that fills this generous, informative book." -Lena Dunham "Readers will be filled with nostalgia as they take a culinary road trip through the history of American food with the Aherns. With each page, they will realize they can yet again enjoy all of the foods they loved from childhood, gluten-free. With beloved classics like Corn Dogs, Red Velvet...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Du monde entier. Poésies complètes 1912-1924 de Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) paraît en 1967 chez Gallimard, dans la collection « Poésie », avec une préface de Paul Morand. Ce premier volume reprend jusqu'à Documentaires la composition de la première édition complète et définitive...
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