Tag: venice
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April 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
Venice has some of the greatest Renaissance art anywhere on planet Earth. Or so I'm told, You couldn't prove it by me. The pictures and sculpture are pretty, but I'm not equipped to appreciate . . .
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July 31, 2006 11:58 PM EDT --
The clouds reach over the dividing range
Beckoning
Come, I am waiting
The air grows thicker
Moist and comforting
I am getting close
At last I reach the shore
After too many years away . . .
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October 01, 2007 08:23 PM EDT --
This is a short essay with spectacular photos of my husband's recent trip to Italy.
Alas, I did not go, but the photos are very enjoyable.
(I have been to Italy, near Turino, 10 years . . .
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June 28, 2008 07:16 PM EDT --
Part 1
My husband's trip to Italy Part 1 - SPECTACULAR Venezia
Part 3
My husband's trip to Italy Part 3 - The mountains and castle of San Marino
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May 20, 2008 07:21 PM EDT --
Why did the Rooster of Venice pilot his gondola across the canal?
To get the gerbil to the other side.
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October 08, 2007 12:08 AM EDT --
In Part 1, My husband's trip to Italy Part 1 - SPECTACULAR Venezia
In Part 3 My husband's trip to Italy Part 3 - The mountains and castle of San Marino
We . . .
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April 25, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
She dreamed of Venice
And the nice
Man she met
And later married. Yet
The dream was soured.
She was overpowered
By the memory
Of he
Who died.
And sighed
Into the waking day
Like one by a bay . . .
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June 26, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
How many of us would swap transportation with Venetians...?
Or just to try it for 1 month..?
The Venetian's Lifestyle even if it might look absurd or impossible to us, They all . . .
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August 24, 2007 04:27 PM EDT --
The winner of the "Who Inspires You" Resurrecting the Champ essay contest is Traci B. from Georgia for her essay "Who Inspires Me Most". Traci's husband, an Army Reserve soldier, . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
VENICE, WITH BONES
sack me gobs of lilacs the next time you float through
Venice
the glass lasts longer but is it as fragrant and
rife
all beauty bleeds so fast you have to run madly to
replenish . . .
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June 26, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
Alas, I did not go, but the photos are very enjoyable.
Part 2: My husband's trip to Italy Part 2 - Venice and Riccione
Part 3: My husband's trip to . . .
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April 26, 2007 05:39 AM EDT --
One of the great things about the United States is that it has some of the best beaches in the World. So many beaches, in fact, that it makes it difficult to narrow down a list. For instance, while you . . .
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December 30, 2006 05:01 PM EST --
MERCY by SHAKESPEARE
FROM “MERCHANT OF VENICE”
The quality of mercy is not strained, -
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: . . .
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July 19, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
I suppose when people come to Venice they want to see everything and experience things to the full, so that when they return home, they can say, I have been to Venice and seen it all. But I doubt that . . .
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August 01, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
Sometimes I think my life is a screenplay written by Chris Matheson. Andi's and myrecent trip to the beach was no exception.
Andi needed to get away from town and I needed to put my feet in . . .
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June 05, 2008 07:16 AM EDT --
Part 2 of this Tour of Italy's wines takes us to the extremes of the peninsula--the northeast region near Venice, then on to the south for a taste of Sicily and Puglia.
We spent our honeymoon . . .
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February 14, 2007 10:31 AM EST --
If you have never been to Venice the treasure that awaits you is splendid. There is so much to love about the city of Venice and the history it has to offer. So many tourists flood the city for a single . . .
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September 02, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
I first saw what was then quoted as Giovanni Bellini's painting of the Annunciation, at a Italian Renaissance Art exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in . . .
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June 28, 2006 08:58 AM EDT --
I dreamt your eyes were blue as iris
that compete with Venice skies
so I stole the regal flowers
from the garden of the palace
to place them on your Steinway
in exchange for a Moszkowski polonaise. . . .
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February 11, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
I resolved to venture off familiar wine paths more in 2007 (a lot of self-sacrifice involved with this resolution). Italy is certainly an abundant source of interesting wines to try—there’s . . .
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