Speakers playing classical music in selected parts of an Australian tourist city have proven to be an overnight success in driving out anti-social elements.
In mid-November 6 years ago, classical music has played in targeted areas of the Gold Coast and has successfully safeguarded the area from hoodlums and vagrants, according to the Courier Mail. Local…
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This quick and easy vintage pancakes recipe comes from 1950s Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook.
Fan fact: This vintage recipe was one of the three recipes in the Nestle’s advertisement published in the cookbook.
To make these light and delicious pancakes you will need
4 oz flour
1/4 teaspoon salt …
New York City life bustles outside — car horns, an occasional shout, the general urban hum. But inside the apartment, a soothing opposite — gentle Chinese music plays as painter Xiaoping Chen sits with legs folded on top of each other in effortless full lotus, emanating tranquility like a still pond.
“Being artists, we can only…
Yotsukawa Seisakusho is an amazing maker of fine bronzeware from Takaoka, a birthplace of the Takaoka bronzeware--the town that has over four centuries of Monozukuri (casting) heritage. Today in Takaoka, the elite artisans work independently for different brands, including Kisendo, a company that designs and produces flower vases, incense burners, ornaments and tea kettles to…
First, East met West and chinoiserie was born. Then, a certain cabinet found its way to the philanthropist and designer, Ann Getty. The rest is history.
What does one gift a woman who has everything? Over 30 years ago, John Paul Getty, the American petroleum magnate, gave Ann Getty, his daughter-in-law, an exquisite cabinet in the…
The story of Filippo Brunelleschi, who reimagined architecture, designing the magnificent dome for the Florence Cathedral, a symbol of the Renaissance spirit that still inspires humanity 500 years on.
The cathedral - named in honor of Santa Maria del Fiore — is a vast Gothic structure built on the site of the 7th century…
The Death of Socrates is a masterpiece by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. It depicts the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo .
Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and…
The Conversion of Mary Magdalene painting is one of Paolo Veronese’s earliest works, painted when he was about 18, probably for a noble patron in Verona. The lighting from the right suggests that it was made for a specific location, perhaps the side wall of a chapel. The painting demonstrates Veronese’s sophisticated approach to narrative…
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The Artza box is a quarterly subscription box featuring curated artisanal products from across Israel, aimed at…