Qamar June 14, 2018 by Paulo Coelho (One of my friends here sent me a link while commenting on “Insult the dead”. I checked it and I stumbled upon a very interesting text by Bonnie Ware. Below a resumée: ) For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. I was with them … Read more
The Vintage News Dec 23, 2017 Magda Origjanska The State Hermitage Museum in Russia’s Saint Petersburg, one of the most famous art museums in the world, has a staff including numerous specialists in sculpture, history, painting, but also, believe it or not, a special kind of four-legged specialists that work under the Jordan Staircase in the … Read more
The Vintage News May 12, 2018 Kristin Thomas Louise Huebner, preparing a turtle soup for her new cookbook. (Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) The 1960s are known as the era that changed the nation. It was a time of revolution–free love, peace, social, and political. Those who weren’t there to witness or experience … Read more
The Vinatge News Apr 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews Footprints belonging to two different kinds of dinosaurs, discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, have revealed new details of how the now-extinct creatures evolved and moved during a period of the Jurassic era. Traces of the dinosaurs were found both as part of trackways and as isolated marks, … Read more
The idea of finding gold and silver and getting rich fast drew prospectors from all over the United States and the “Colorado Silver Boom” is the perfect example of it. The period is known for the expansion of the silver mining and it all began in 1879 – around twenty years after the Colorado Gold … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 18, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Juliette Gordon Low was a deaf, childless, middle-aged divorcee who could have easily lived out her last years in leisure on her family’s estate in Savannah, Georgia. Instead, she channeled her considerable drive and energy into an organization to help young girls find their own ways in life. … Read more
May 30, 2018 George Winston Wartime Civil Control Station in San Francisco, California. National Archives Because of proposed cuts in the United States budget for 2019, the National Park Services would be severely reduced. This may have a negative impact on many NPS sites including those where Japanese Americans were confined following America’s entry into WWII … Read more
