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Most wine glasses are stemware, composed of three parts: the bowl, stem, and foot. In some designs, the opening of the glass is narrower than the widest part of the bowl to concentrate the aroma. [1] Others are more open, like inverted cones. In addition, "stemless" wine glasses (tumblers) are available in a variety of sizes and shapes. [5]
The series was announced by the BBC on 8 July 2011 with the working title Survival, [3] later changed to Life Story.As with other BBC Natural History Unit productions, Life Story was a co-production between BBC Television, Discovery Channel, France Télévisions and Open University, who each contributed to the documentary's funding, and is the first Natural History Unit series to film using ...
A rosé Vinho Verde. The Romans Seneca the Younger and Pliny the Elder both made reference to vines in the area between the rivers Douro and Minho. [7]A record exists of a winery being donated to the Alpendurada convent in Marco de Canaveses in 870 AD, and the vineyards seem to have expanded over the following centuries, planted by religious orders and encouraged by tax breaks.
Austrian opaline glass bowl, 1914. Opaline glass is a style of antique glassware that was produced in Europe, particularly 19th-century France.It was originally made by adding materials such as bone ash to lead-crystal, creating a semi-opaque glass with reddish opalescence.
Back at Sea Island, Wallace, a retired Hollywood stuntman with the slicked-back black hair and bone structure of a Tim Burton character, arranges himself on a plaid barstool to talk me through ...
Excavations at Worms, Trier, Cologne, and in the Eifel revealed glass factories that were probably Roman in origin—indeed, Römer is German for 'Roman'. Ancient Rhenish graves have yielded gilt-decorated bowls and beakers which were made using the fondo d'oro ('base of gold') process in which the design is etched into a layer of gold on the ...
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The Wine Glass, 66.3 x 76.5 cm, c. 1660. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The Wine Glass (also The Glass of Wine or Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine, Dutch: Het glas wijn) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1660, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. [1] It portrays a seated woman and a standing man drinking in an interior setting.