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Portrait of Mimi Cramer by Albert von Keller, 1875.The sitter wears a blue silk polonaise basque over a white underskirt. The term polonaise was applied to a variety of garments throughout the 19th century, often because their styling was thought to be Polish in inspiration.
The Polish Fantasy in G-sharp minor, Op.19 (French: Fantaisie polonaise sur des thèmes originaux), is a work for piano and orchestra composed in 1893 by Ignacy Jan Paderewski. It was first performed at the Norwich Festival in England the same year, where it achieved success and became a frequent addition to Paderewswki's concert repertoire. [ 1 ]
The polonaise is a Polish dance and is one of the five historic national dances of Poland. [6] The others are the Mazur (Mazurka), Kujawiak, Krakowiak and Oberek. [7] Polonaise originated as a peasant dance known under various names – chodzony ("pacer"), chmielowy ("hops"), pieszy ("walker") or wielki ("great"), recorded as early as the 15th ...
We live in a society obsessed with youth, fearful of death and allergic to wrinkles. But actress Mimi Rogers, who is 67, is having none of it. “This is me, this is my face," Rogers says, "and I ...
For those who don't remember, the 1995 seven time Emmy nominated show followed Drew (also Drew Carey), as an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store, and all of his musings ...
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A historical 18th-century Polish bed (lit à la polonaise) at Chambéry, FranceA Polish bed (French: Lit à la polonaise; French:), alternatively known in English as a polonaise, is a type of small-canopy bed which most likely originated in Poland and became a centrepiece of 18th-century French furniture. [1]
The series was developed from a pilot television film, also titled Nightingales, that was directed by Mimi Leder and originally aired in June 1988. Field, Walters, Swanson, Bennett, and Jennifer Rhodes (as Effie Gardner) are the only members of the cast to appear in both the film and the series.