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Visiting card. A visiting card, also called a calling card, was a small, decorative card that was carried by individuals to present themselves to others. It was a common practice in the 18th and 19th century, particularly among the upper classes, to leave a visiting card when calling on someone (which means to visit their house or workplace).
Hair removal is offered at some beauty salons through treatments such as waxing and threading. Some beauty salons also style hair instead of requiring clients to go to a separate hair salon. Some also offer sun tanning via tanning beds. Facials may include the use of a facial mask. Another popular beauty treatment specific to the face is known ...
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 26, 1962, to March 23, 1971. Originally filmed in black and white for the first three seasons (1962–1965), the first color-filmed episode ("Admiral Jed Clampett") was aired on September 15, 1965, and all subsequent episodes from 1965 to 1971 were filmed in color.
The Spider and the Fly. (poem) " The Spider and the Fly " is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799–1888), published in 1829. The first line of the poem is "'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly." The story tells of a cunning spider who entraps a fly into its web through the use of seduction and manipulation.
Camp Steiner played a formative role in the lives of generations of Boy Scouts. You never forget your first big trip away from home. For Ben Lusty and generations of Boy Scouts, it was at Camp ...
The carte de visite ( French: [kaʁt də vizit], English: ' visiting card ', abbr. 'CdV', pl. cartes de visite) was a format of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero . Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and such photograph cards, in ...
Parlour. A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members. In the English-speaking world of the 18th and 19th ...
In a video interview with the Academy, Rowlands describes a liberating lesson her husband gave her on “A Woman Under the Influence.”. Rowlands was second-guessing her ability to play the title ...