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FABERGÉ AQUAMARINE TIARA 1904
An exquisite jewel of Imperial Russia.
Born in the golden age of Russian imperial elegance, the Fabergé Aquamarine Tiara embodies the delicate artistry and romantic sophistication of early 20th century high jewellery.
Its luminous aquamarines, set among intricate diamond floral motifs, evoke the beauty of a winter garden kissed by the first light of dawn.
Every detail reflects the refined craftsmanship and poetic imagination that made Fabergé one of the most celebrated names in jewellery history.
More than an ornament, this remarkable creation is a fragment of a vanished world a testament to the splendour, symbolism and exceptional artistry of the Imperial Russian era.
Acquired in 2019 by the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the tiara continues to captivate collectors and admirers of historic jewels, preserving the legacy of an extraordinary tradition.
Where history meets brilliance, and beauty becomes eternal. #Faberge #AquamarineTiara #ImperialRussia #RussianJewels #HistoricJewelry #HighJewelry #FineJewelry #JewelryHistory #AntiqueJewelry #MuseumCollection #LuxuryHeritage #RoyalJewels #GemstoneJewelry #LuxuryMagazine #TimelessElegance
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Frances Macdonald ( 1873 – 1921), prominent Glasgow School artist, whose design work was a huge feature of the British Art Nouveau style from the 1890s until the early 20th century #WomensArt #GlasgowGirlsWeek
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To celebrate the birth of Charles Frederick Worth, it's #frockingFabulous #HouseofWorth season! She's busy, busy, busy! #Fashionhistory of c.1887–89, via the Met.
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Cuando el funcionario nazi Adolf Eichmann comentó con desprecio que no estaba acostumbrado a tratar con mujeres, Geertruida Wijsmuller, de cuarenta y dos años, no se inmutó.
Respondió con sequedad que lo sentía, pero que había olvidado traer a su marido, así que él tendría que entenderse simplemente con ella.
Eichmann, quien supervisaba la emigración forzosa de judíos en la Viena de 1938, le tendió una trampa que él consideraba imposible: le concedió permiso para sacar a 600 niños judíos de la Austria ocupada por los nazis, a condición de que organizara su evacuación completa en tan solo cinco días.
Esperaba que la burocracia y el miedo la doblegaran. Subestimó a «Tante Truus» (tía Truus).
Geertruida, una ama de casa neerlandesa sin cargos políticos ni poder militar, se negó a dejarse intimidar. En un plazo de 120 horas, consiguió fondos de emergencia, requisó trenes y llevó a 600 niños aterrorizados a través de la frontera hacia un lugar seguro, logrando aparecer en los titulares de *The New York Times*.
Aquel primer rescate audaz no fue un triunfo aislado, sino el modelo para una campaña que duró dieciocho meses.
Cruzando fronteras hostiles varias veces por semana, Geertruida organizó cuarenta y nueve expediciones —en tren, barco y avión— para sacar clandestinamente a niños de Alemania, Austria y Checoslovaquia hacia refugios en Inglaterra, Suecia y los Países Bajos.
Cuando Alemania invadió los Países Bajos en mayo de 1940, ella supervisó personalmente la partida del último barco de rescate; cedió su propio lugar para quedarse junto a su marido y continuar con las labores de la resistencia clandestina durante toda la guerra.
Reconocida como «Justa entre las Naciones» antes de su fallecimiento en 1978, la «Madre de 10 001 niños» logró salvar, en total, más de 10 000 vidas jóvenes de la Shoa
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Некий испанский фермер начал надевать на домашних кур мини жилеты со светоотражающими полосками. Зимой темнеет рано, а благодаря экипировке птиц легче найти. Но это напугало одну из местных. Увидев светящиеся силуэты, женщина приняла их за "бродящих гномов" и вызвала полицию.
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Across from Luskentyre on Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. Pink clouds over the hills, turquoise water and miles of white sand. It's one of my favourite places to photograph anywhere.
Would you believe this is the UK?
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An older dog was feeling depressed because he was always alone, so they brought him a puppy to keep him company. The little guy couldn't have been happier. 🐶❤️
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18 Years of Unconditional Love ❤️🐾 From a Tiny Puppy to a Beautiful Senior Soul.❤❤❤
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George Harrison stands at the gates of Friar Park,staring at what most people would call a disaster.
The Victorian mansion is decaying. Grass grows through the floors. The once-famous gardens are wild and overrun. Greenhouses have collapsed. Grottoes are buried. Paths have vanished under decades of neglect.
He’s 27. The Beatles have just broken up. He could go anywhere. Do anything. The world is waiting for his next move.
Instead, he buys the ruin and starts digging.
Not as a hobby. As a way of life.
He hires ten gardeners and works beside them from dawn until midnight, hands in the soil. His sister-in-law sees the place and asks what he’s thinking. George doesn’t explain. He just keeps working.
His son Dhani grows up watching his father gardening by moonlight, squinting in the dark because the shadows hide the imperfections that bothered him during the day. The music industry keeps calling — albums, tours, interviews. More George Harrison, the Beatle.
George wants to plant trees.
Friar Park isn’t just a garden. It’s a strange Victorian dream: caves, tunnels, a four-acre Alpine rock garden topped with a miniature Matterhorn, and gnomes everywhere. He even photographs himself among them for All Things Must Pass — then goes back to pruning.
When a nursery owner mentions slow sales, George buys one of everything. When someone offers 800 types of maple trees, he takes them all. His wife Olivia remembers him saying, “It’s not my garden, Liv.” He saw himself as a caretaker. The garden didn’t belong to him — he belonged to it.
By 1980, he publishes his autobiography and dedicates it “to gardeners everywhere.” He writes that he’s simple. He doesn’t want the business full-time. He’s a gardener. He plants flowers and watches them grow.
Journalists visit and call it un-rock-star-like. George doesn’t mind. He’s lived Beatlemania, stadium screams, cultural revolutions. Compared to restoring hedges, it felt empty.
After John Lennon’s murder, the gates close for good. George and Olivia keep working — not for visitors, but for the work itself.
He dies in 2001. Today, the gardens are considered masterpieces of Victorian landscaping. Olivia still tends them. The estate remains private.
George Harrison chose dirt under his fingernails over applause.
And in that choice, he found something stadiums never gave him.
Freedom.
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May 5, 1945. Hitler has been dead for five days. The war in Europe is almost over.
In a castle in the Austrian Alps, American soldiers, German soldiers, and a group of elderly French prisoners grab rifles and get ready to fight the SS.
Together.
The castle was called Schloss Itter. The Nazis had turned it into a prison for very important people. Not ordinary prisoners. Trophies.
Inside were two former prime ministers of France, Paul Reynaud and Édouard Daladier. Two of France's top generals, Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin. A famous tennis champion, Jean Borotra. And the older sister of Charles de Gaulle.
As the Reich collapsed in early May, the SS guards panicked and ran. The prisoners suddenly found themselves in charge of a castle, with weapons left behind, and a serious problem.
Waffen-SS units were still roaming the area. Fanatics who would gladly kill them all.
They needed help. Fast.
One of the castle's prisoners, a Yugoslav handyman, slipped out on a bicycle to find the Americans. Separately, a German army officer named Major Josef Gangl also went looking for them.
Gangl was a Wehrmacht officer who had turned against the Nazis and was secretly working with the Austrian resistance. He wanted to protect the prisoners too.
He found an American tank commander named Captain Jack Lee.
Lee was 27, tough, cigar chewing, and willing to do something insane. With a single Sherman tank and a handful of American soldiers, he drove up into the mountains alongside Gangl and a few of his German troops.
They reached the castle on May 4.
The French prisoners were not exactly thrilled to see a tiny rescue force. They had expected an army. Instead they got a few Americans, a few Germans, and one tank.
The next morning, the SS attacked.
Somewhere between 100 and 150 Waffen-SS troops hit the castle with machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank weapons. The defenders fought back from the walls and windows. Americans and Germans side by side.
The French prisoners refused to hide. Some of them, including Reynaud, picked up weapons and joined in.
The Sherman tank was knocked out. The defenders were running out of ammunition. It looked like the castle would fall.
Then Jean Borotra, the tennis star, volunteered to make a run for it. He jumped the wall, slipped past the SS, and sprinted through the countryside to find American reinforcements.
He found them. And he insisted on coming back with them to finish the fight.
During the battle, Major Gangl saw Paul Reynaud exposed to gunfire and moved to pull him to safety. A sniper shot Gangl dead.
He had survived the whole war as a German soldier, only to die defending French prisoners from the SS in its final days.
That afternoon, the American relief force arrived and broke the attack. The SS were scattered and captured. The prisoners were saved.
Jack Lee received the Distinguished Service Cross. In Austria, Josef Gangl is remembered as a hero, and a street is named after him.
It is believed to be the only battle of the war where American and German soldiers fought together on the same side.
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Ce château fort médiéval date presque entièrement du XIXe siècle. Il a été reconstruit à partir d'une ruine, pour Napoléon III.
C'est le château de Pierrefonds, dans l'Oise. Dans la série Merlin, c'est lui qui joue Camelot.
Le premier château s'élève à partir de 1396, pour Louis d'Orléans, le frère du roi Charles VI. Louis est assassiné en 1407, avant la fin des travaux.
En 1617, les troupes de Louis XIII l'assiègent. Puis on le démantèle sur ordre du roi.
Pendant plus de deux siècles, il reste une ruine. Napoléon Ier la rachète pour moins de 3 000 francs.
Son neveu, le futur Napoléon III, la visite en 1850. Sept ans plus tard, il confie le chantier à l'architecte Viollet-le-Duc.
L'architecte devait restaurer quelques tours. Il finit par reconstruire tout le château, pour en faire une résidence impériale.
Dans la grande salle, une cheminée porte les statues de neuf héroïnes de légende. L'une a le visage de l'impératrice Eugénie.
Le chantier coûte 5 millions de francs. L'Empire tombe en 1870, et Napoléon III ne verra jamais son château achevé.
Aujourd'hui, le cinéma le prend pour un vrai château médiéval. Il a servi de décor à Jeanne d'Arc, de Luc Besson.
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"Todos los días a la una llega un perro callejero a mi puesto de hamburguesas con una piedra en el hocico. La deja en el mostrador y se sienta a esperar.
Los clientes se ríen. Creen que es un truco que le enseñé para vender más. No lo es.
El primer día llegó sin nada. Flaco, café, con cara de no haber comido. Lo corrí. Él se fue despacio, viendo hacia atrás. 🍔
Al día siguiente volvió. Con la piedra.
La puso enfrente de la plancha, me miró y se sentó derechito, como los clientes que ya pagaron. Yo me quedé con la espátula en la mano sin saber qué hacer. 🪨
Le hice su hamburguesa. Sin lechuga, porque la escupió la primera vez.
Desde entonces es lo mismo: piedra, hamburguesa, se va. Nunca falla, nunca roba, nunca se mete al puesto. Le dicen Esmashito.
Tengo las piedras en un frasco, atrás de la caja. Ya son más de cuarenta. Un cliente me preguntó qué hago con tanta piedra. Le dije la verdad: es mi mejor cliente, y es el único que paga por adelantado.
Hoy trajo una piedra más grande. Yo creo que quería papas".
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He just got rescued from the shelter and look at how he looks at his new owner 🥹
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Leopard Appaloosa
He is spectacular! Bold dark spots on his white coat and the blowing mane against the mountain backdrop make him look mythical.
The leopard-spot pattern comes from the Leopard Complex (LP) gene, producing Dalmatian-like spots. The Nez Perce developed the breed in the Pacific Northwest for stamina and intelligence.
