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You Can Make This: Dutch Apple Pie
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Currently in Amsterdam and have already enjoyed a delicious slice at Cafe Hoppe. Excited to try making it myself!
Anna directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Released in 1993.
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Each year, Mikhalkov asked his daughter, Anna, several simple questions.
“What do you love the most?”
“What do you want more than anything right now?”
“What do you hate the most?”
“What scares you the most?”
“What do you expect from life?”
Her life tracks thoughts in the USSR in the 1980s and through its demise in 1991.
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Minus the pillows and artwork that don’t belong, and this is my make-do living room.
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Are you a Mad Men die-hard fan?
Then you will certainly enjoy this post! Anton Panin compares some of the 60s status symbols in the U.S. and their Soviet counterparts.
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- Hazel Grace Lancaster on Amsterdam (The Fault in Our Stars, John Green)
I’ll find out in a few weeks.
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Faded decorative panel Jan-Gyulum (Flower Blessing), Egishe Tadevosyan, 1907.
Jan (from Persian, meaning “dear”, “life”, “love”, “spirit”, “soul”) Gyulum (from Turkish, meaning “rose”) is a ritual song originating from a holiday devoted to the water goddess Astghik during Armenia’s pre-Christian period. It is performed during the celebration of the Jesus Christ’s Ascension.
It is the glorification of the flower, primarily the rose and, according to Archbishop Artak Manukyan, has made some suppose that the Lot of Ascension, collecting leafs and flowers is a custom that has remained since the Vardavar celebration.
The day before the celebration, ladies would bring vivid flowers from fields and gardens and tie bouquets of which the largest was cross-shaped and called “Tsakhkamer” (Flower Mother). Then, they would pour water into a pot and each girl would throw any item, keep it with the flowers and make sure the boys didn’t steal them. The next day, on Ascension Day, they would all sit together, place the flower bouquets next to the pot and start the lottery. They would sing the verses of a folk song and one of the lines would end with “Jan Gyulum, Jan, Jan” and the other line was “Jan Tsaghik (Flower), Jan, Jan”. After singing each verse, they would take each item out of the pot with the hand of a child whose face was covered with a veil. The content of the song or the four lines would determine the good or bad lot of the person whose item was taken out. This ceremony was called “Tsaghik Govel” (Flower Appraisal). It was this national custom that the great Hovhannes Tumanyan beautifully portrayed in his poem entitled “Anush”. After distributing all the flowers, the “Tsakhkamer” (Flower Mother) would donate the cross-shaped flower in the middle to the church. (Hayk Karapetyan / hayernaysor)I uploaded more works by Tadevosyan, Khatchaturyan, Aivazovsky, Galents, and Kojoyan.
Vardges Surenyants, Eastern Dancer, date unknown. Oil on canvas. Chechen-Ingush Museum of Fine Arts, Grozny.
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth out of the well, armed with a whip to punish mankind
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