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The Victorian flower girl most resembles the modern one. Victorian-era flower girls were traditionally dressed in white, perhaps with a sash of colored satin or silk. Her dress, usually made of muslin, was intentionally simple to allow future use. The Victorian flower girl carried an ornate basket of fresh blooms or sometimes a floral hoop, its ...
In 1963, a boycott of Christmas lights was done in Greenville, North Carolina, to protest the segregation that kept blacks from being employed by downtown businesses in Greenville, during the Christmas sales season. Known as the Black Christmas boycott or "Christmas Sacrifice", it was an effective way to protest the cultural and fiscal ...
The dress, like Hepburn's later little black dress in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, is cited as one of the classic dresses of the 20th century. A poll by Debenhams, published in the Daily Telegraph, voted it the second most iconic red carpet dress of all time. [6] Time magazine voted the dress the greatest Oscar dress of all time. [7]
Common screw-in bubble light. A bubble light is a decorative device consisting of a liquid-filled vial that is heated and illuminated by an incandescent light bulb.Because of the liquid's low boiling point, 39.6°C (103.3°F), the modest heat generated by the lamp causes the liquid to boil and bubble up from the vial's base thus creating a decorative effect.
The Flower Girl is a mid 19th-century painting by Irish-American artist Charles Cromwell Ingham. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a young woman holding a bouquet of flowers. The painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It was shaped like an old-fashioned wood-powered cookstove, used an incandescent light bulb for heat, and came with packaged mixes that could also be bought separately. In 1980, Holly was featured in The Adventures of Holly Hobbie, a novel by Richard Dubelman. In this book, Holly Hobbie is a ghost who lives in a painting from 1803.
Christmas flowers are the popular flowers used during the festive season of Christmas. [1] In many nations, seasonal flowers and plants such as Poinsettia , Christmas cactus , holly , Christmas rose , ivy and mistletoe form a major part of traditional Christmas decoration .
Young Girl with a Flower Basket (French: Fillette à la corbeille fleurie or Jeune fille nue avec panier de fleurs or Fillette nue au panier de fleurs or Le panier fleuri) is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso from his Rose Period. The painting depicts a Parisian street girl, named "Linda", whose fate is unknown.