The Arts
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Blog Tour Continues: M.J. Writes About GUERLAIN – RUE DE LA PAIX
Blog Tour Continues: M.J. Writes About GUERLAIN – RUE DE LA PAIX The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent. …And so, she is leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances. Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts. Your senses will thank you! Here’s an intro to M.J.’s Guest Post at Peeking Between The Pages on GUERLAIN – RUE DE LA PAIX… Perhaps best known for its jewellers, perfumers, milliners and couturiers, Rue de la Paix has always existed…
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The desolate, delicious gloom of GUERLAIN – DJEDI…
The desolate, delicious gloom of GUERLAIN – DJEDI… The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent. …And so, she is leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances. Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts . Your senses will thank you! Here’s an intro to M.J.’s Guest Post at Literate Housewife on GUERLAIN – DJEDI…(this is a scent that I would personally travel the globe to smell just once.) The most coveted and rare perfume from the Guerlain portfolio, Djedi…
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2012 » March
Archive for March, 2012 The only known footage of Anne Frank… We have no words… “July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the cooperation of the couple.” Emily K. Editor on…
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March 6th at 3PM – M.J. Rose Live on BookTrib
March 6th at 3PM – M.J. Rose Live on BookTrib Please come, please share. The online event is March 6th 3:00 PM EST! (You can get perfume samples of Âmes Soeurs, the Scent of Soulmates.) Many love the smell of books – but did you ever think you could love the smell of a story? Coming: Tuesday, March 6, 3:00pm ET - M.J. Rose Live on BookTrib “Rose’s deliciously sensual novel of paranormal suspense smoothly melds a perfume-scented quest to protect an ancient artifact with an ages-spanning romance…Rose (The Hypnotist) imbues her characters with rich internal lives in a complex plot that races to a satisfying finish.” –Publishers Weekly (starred…
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Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans?
Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans? These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever (Gizmodo.com) According to new dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may change our ideas about humanity’s evolution. Until now, archeologists thought that the oldest art was created during the Aurignacian period, by modern humans. But these are way older, way more primitive than the ones in Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, the 32,000-year-old paintings featured in Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams. According to the latest dating of the charcoal found next to…
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Our Provocative Giveaway Continues…
Our Provocative Giveaway Continues… A few weeks ago, M.J.’s upcoming new novel, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, got Indie Next Pick for March! It also received a starred and boxed PW review – and to celebrate, M.J. decided to offer something very intriguing to her readers. The giveaway continues through February and the details are below in case you missed our post about this earlier in the month… But first, The Story straight from M.J.: Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was fascinated with and some say obsessed by scent. Marc Anthony built her a fragrance factory and the famous queen was said to have kept a recipe book…
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The Mystery of Automata
The Mystery of Automata Maillardet’s Automaton “In November of 1928, a truck pulled up to The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia and unloaded the pieces of an interesting, complex, but totally ruined brass machine. Donated by the estate of John Penn Brock, a wealthy Philadelphian, the machine was studied and the museum began to realize the treasure it had been given. This Automaton, known as the “Draughtsman-Writer” was built by Henri Maillardet, a Swiss mechanician of the 18th century who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms. It is believed that Maillardet built this extraordinary Automaton around 1800 and it has the largest “memory” of any such machine…
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Stories
Archive for the 'Stories' Category Lost Fragrances Found…(and a giveaway that you will treasure) Here’s some exciting news: M.J.’s upcoming new novel, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, just got Indie Next Pick for March! It also received a starred and boxed PW review – to celebrate, M.J. is offering something very intriguing to her readers. The details are below… But first, The Story straight from M.J.: Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was fascinated with and some say obsessed by scent. Marc Anthony built her a fragrance factory and the famous queen was said to have kept a recipe book for her perfumes, entitled Cleopatra gynaeciarum libri. That book…
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Lost Fragrances Found…(and a giveaway that you will treasure)
Lost Fragrances Found…(and a giveaway that you will treasure) Here’s some exciting news: M.J.’s upcoming new novel, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, just got Indie Next Pick for March! It also received a starred and boxed PW review – to celebrate, M.J. is offering something very intriguing to her readers. The details are below… But first, The Story straight from M.J.: Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was fascinated with and some say obsessed by scent. Marc Anthony built her a fragrance factory and the famous queen was said to have kept a recipe book for her perfumes, entitled Cleopatra gynaeciarum libri. That book has been described in writings…
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2012 » January
Archive for January, 2012 Visible Only From Above If you’re interested in the mystery of the Nazca lines, you will also find these fascinating – Visible Only From Above, Mystifying ‘Nazca Lines’ Discovered in Mideast By Owen Jarus | LiveScience.com The giant stone structures form wheel shapes with spokes often radiating inside. Here a cluster of wheels in the Azraq Oasis. CREDIT: David D. Boyer They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. They are the Middle East’s own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient “geolyphs,” or drawings, that span deserts in southern…
