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The Heights
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uk_viH4Unw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Besides being incredibly beautiful, this video of a rocket launcher falling from space back into the Earth’s atmosphere takes up several threads running throughout Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: clouds, pioneering air-travel (in hot-air balloons and via the first parachute), silence…
If you believe, clap your hands…
Throughout the Victorian era, belief in fairies ran deep, especially in England where scientists and historians joined the hunt. Some testified to the customs and archeological remains left by the elvin creatures, and well-educated types easily speculated on whether fairies…
Le pyjama de plage
Le pyjama de plage of the early 1930s—beach pajamas—were worn by all the best dressed women vacationing in Monte Carlo and in Cannes, started a slow, chic movement towards casual dressing in public. (To me, their backless sun tops were…
Space Oddity
In the summer of 1973, following in the success of his Ziggy Stardust triumph, David Bowie‘s Aladdin Sane album was unleashed on the world—and his Ziggy persona got that much wilder. Bowie had debuted his flaming red mullet the year…
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