In 1838 Aristide Boucicaut started working in the shop 'Bon Marché', took it over in 1848 and managed to open up the first big department store worldwide. He was such a genius that nowadays shopping philosophies are based on his inventions! Even Emile Zola had to acknowledge this in his novel Au Bonheur des Dames. Watch a great documentary on ARTE.tv or on ARTE channel this afternoon. It will be repeated twice at the end of Novembe...
Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2011
Freitag, 28. Oktober 2011
BUY a Decree by King George III. (1770)
I found this on ebay looking for a book about King George III.An original decree by HM George III.about military deserters issued in 1770can be boughtHERE until tomorrow 29. Okt. 201110:38:22 MESZ.(check the other items the seller is offering,for example a decree by King George III about sugar taxes in 176...
Castle Ostrau in Saxony Anhalt
The French architect Louis Rémy de la Fosse, who came as a refugee to Germany in 1706, built this castle for Otto Ludwig von Veltheim in 1713. The south wing was completed in 1862. Its last owner, Hans Hasso von Veltheim (1 2 3 4), globetrotter and writer, was banished in 1945. Since 2000 the Ostrau cultural association is reviving the castle to former bloom.The castle became a cultural center during the 20th century. The Veltheims continued to enlarge their library in every generation and extended it to more than 20.000 volumes. Throughout...
Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011
Premiere of Open Air Play at Zwinger Dresden
On November 6th the French-German TV channel arte.tv shows the recording of the Zwinger Open Air play 'The King's Mistress' at 2pm.It tells the story of August the Strong and Countess Cosel.Director Wedel said:No baroque costume drama! According to him the play won't be a Baroque costume drama. With the play "The mistress of the king," he wants to build a bridge between the past and the present. What August the Strong had moved, also does today and is neither outdated as was his great love for Countess Cosel....
Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2011
Account Book 1763
A - Estate Expenses
B - Business Charges
C - Horses
D - Doctors & Surgeons
E - Annual Rents and Wages
F - Gardeni...
Servant Directory
Leyland ManorCartwright House, LondonMr. Wolstenholme, land steward, 100pounds Mr. Brittles, butler, 55pounds Mr. Topper, butler, 57pounds 10shilling Mrs. Lewis, housekeeper, 10pounds Mrs. Molden, housekeeper, 11pounds 10s Mr. Elliott, valet, 6pd 10s + 50pd tips/year Jenna, lady's maid, 5pd Mrs. Redbourn, cook, 7pd Mrs. Burdett, everyday cook, 8pd Monsieur Beaudine, French cook, 60pd Mr. Pankhurst Jr., head gardener, 28pd 10s Mr. de Vries, head gardener, 30pd Mr. Loughname, game keeper, 15pd Mr. Buitenhuis, assistant gardener, 4pd Mr....
18th century
Center Information
The Leyland Manor Research Center is currently investigating more information on the history of the house and will shortly announce new results about this project.
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Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011
That Home-Town Feeling
... is one of my favourite short stories by Edna Ferber and is part of her short story collection 'Buttered Side Down'. When sitting on a bench in our courtyard rocking my baby boy's buggy, I usually read on my Kindle. Currently its all Edna Ferber. Though she's an American writer and though her stories are set in early 20th century America, I adore her characters and her style anyway. Her stories could very well be adopted into 21st century. Her descriptions are so intriguing and funny and everytime I'm surprised where her plots...
Montag, 17. Oktober 2011
Knitting Needles and the Telephone
On 26th of October, 150 years ago, in 1861, Philipp Reis from Gelnhausen (Hesse, Germany) managed the first telephone connection and the first sentence ever spoken was: 'The horse doesn't eat cucumber salad.'What has this to do with knitting needles you ask? Easy, says I ;-DReis used his Telephone (the word also invented by Reis) to transmit his phrase "The horse does not eat cucumber salad". This phrase in German is hard to understand acoustically so Reis used it to prove if speech can be recognized on another side successfully.Reis's...
Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011
16th Women Culture Days in Halle Saale, Germany
Totally ignored by all responsible at the Halle government and offices are the 16th Women Culture Days this October (21st Oct - 6th Nov). The only announcement is given by the Weiberwirtschaft Halle in a pdf file. Well, how should Google ever find anything like that? And who's responsible for their horrible website layout anyway!?Another advertisement for this event I saw in the tram today on a tiny poster no one would recognise. The artwork is nice, done by Death Dishes and there'll be so much going on. Just check the flyer at Weiberwirtschaft...
Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011
First Reenactment Fair in Germany
This weekend the first Reenactment Fair is held in Germany, precisely in Minden, Westphalia.Check out this amazing Tou...
Travelling back to 1761
"Minden 1761" was the title of a city event of the town of Minden, Westphalia, in August. Visitors were sent back for three days in the year 1761. There, the visitor met nobles and peasants, traders and beggars, entertainers and soldiers from a bygone era.Unfortunately I live too far away and unfortunately I missed this in general....
Montag, 3. Oktober 2011
Masters of the German Language
It is the 3rd of October and its Unification Day in Germany. The French-German TV-Channel Arte offers a special schedule today and this afternoon, after we hopefully have survived the Nibelungs, Mazarine Pingeot, will travel through Germany on a literary journey discovering Germanys literature and its author...
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