"Kate & Leopold," --- One Of My Favorite Movies...

Most Beautiful Men From The Past Brought To Life!!!... ;)

...By the way, that's Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto, --- one of my favorite pieces!!!... <3

Oooo, --- Marguerite!!!...

Marguerite & Company: An Outrageous And Vile Tale Of Montmartre In The Early 1900s, ~ Part 1... Marguerite was "un enfant terrible," ~ a terrible child, but she was never really a child. (You know what I mean.)

Well, of course, she was small once, and when she was full grown she was still tiny, being no more than four feet, ten. But, she was abnormally advanced in mind and spirit always, with a sly cunning, like an exquisite and seductive vixen fox.

But, her hair, rather than being fox-red, was a satiny light honey blond and it stayed that way, even when she was an adult. Her eyes were as golden as a hawk's. (She was such a diminutive beauty.) Marg, as she liked to call herself, said she was born on a murky Spring night under a streetlight in Pigalle, in Paris, but if that was true who could say? Her father was a grifter. Her mother was a streetwalker of the lowest and scrappiest type, picking fights with other soiled doves, continually, even when she was in labor with her baby. That Marguerite survived her birth was practically a miracle. She was taken under the wing of another streetwalker, a heart-of-gold type, who was nursing her own baby at the time. (Yes, Marguerite's mother rejected her, calling her "a squirmy little rat".) When Marguerite was twelve she delighted in dressing in adult clothes and charmed the son of a baker, who was eighteen. He wanted to marry her, but Marguerite would have none of that. However, she did develop a liking for chocolate eclaires. [To be continued.] --- Copyright by Antoinette Beard, 2023.

My Favorite Agatha Christie Story & Movie...

What A Gentleman Is, --- Always...

...A gentleman is kind. That's it. Kindness modivates all of his actions. Being a gentleman is cool. It has never gone out of style and never wiil...

>>> A gentleman knows how to act because he has empathy. It gives him pleasure to show his humanity. ...The opposite of a gentleman is a brute. A brute would never think of giving up his seat on a bus to a pregnant woman or an elderly or disabled person. ("They can stand. I deserve to sit here!") A brute would never think of offering his jacket to a woman who's cold. ("Stupid bitch should have thought to bring a coat! I'm not going to be uncomfortable because of her!") A brute would never think of opening a door for someone, or offering his arm to a girl who's walking on high heels on ice. ("People can fend for themselves!") A brute would eat the last little bit of food, never thinking that others might be hungry too. ("First come, first served!") A brute would never think of helping an old woman plant a tree in her yard. ("I don't like getting my hands dirty!") A brute thinks real men are rough and tough and mean, and that's why everybody respects them. To a brute, fear equals respect. A brute never goes out of his way for anyone. He's too selfish for that. ("Gentleness is for weaklings!") >>> A brute is a jerk and everyone despises him, while he goes along thinking everybody is admiring him because he has the stuff it takes to be a "real man".

"Doctor Zhivago": The Making Of A Russian Epic...

I don't care much for Puritans...

The Origin Of "Thanksgiving" (You may not like this.) ...

When Julia Butterfly Hill Saved An Old Tree Named Luna...

December 10, 1997. Northern California.>>> Julia Butterfly Hill was 23 when she climbed Luna, a massive ancient redwood tree in Humboldt County, and set up a tiny platform nearly 180 feet above the ground. Her goal was simple: keep the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. She expected to stay a few days. Nobody imagined she would remain in the tree for more than two years. The old-growth redwood forests were disappearing, and Luna was one of the few giants left, believed to be between 600 and 1,500 years old. Logging crews had already marked it for cutting. Julia decided the only way to stop it was to live in the tree itself. Life in the canopy was anything but romantic. She slept on small wooden platforms, hauled up supplies by rope, endured freezing rain and violent storms, and strapped herself to branches when high winds made the tree sway wildly. Helicopters flew close to rattle her, and loggers cut down surrounding trees to intimidate her. She faced isolation, exhaustion, and constant danger. Still, she stayed. Through a solar-powered phone and later radio interviews, Julia began sharing Luna’s story with the world. She spoke about the damage caused by clear-cutting and the importance of protecting ancient ecosystems. Her quiet determination drew national attention, and the pressure on Pacific Lumber increased. Day after day, season after season, she refused to come down. She celebrated two birthdays in Luna. She endured two winters. She learned the rhythms of the forest and felt a deep connection to the tree she was trying to save. After 738 days, Pacific Lumber finally agreed to negotiate. On December 18, 1999, Julia climbed down from Luna. The company promised to protect the tree and the land around it in exchange for a donated payment from supporters. Luna was safe. Her return to solid ground was difficult. After so long in a constantly swaying tree, she could barely walk without losing her balance. But she had won. One person had saved an ancient redwood that might otherwise have been lost forever. Julia’s tree-sit became one of the most famous acts of environmental activism in modern history. It showed the power of nonviolent resistance and inspired people around the world to believe that individual action can create real change. Luna still stands today, protected and growing, even after surviving vandalism in 2000. Julia Butterfly Hill gave up two years of her life for one tree. Many would call that sacrifice unreasonable. She saw it differently. She believed that change begins when someone decides not to give up, even when the odds are impossible. One person. One tree. 738 days. And Luna is still alive because she chose to climb and refused to come down.

LOVE Walt Whitman!!!...

Habla espanol?... I do, a little. (Un poco!) Below, on "Doctor Quinn:Medicine Woman," Walt Whitman came to town, and then, some of the town's more rigid-thinking residents got all huffy about him, but some loved him for the great and loving man he was. >>>

Olga...

Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya (Russian: Ольга Всеволодовна Ивинская; June 16, 1912, in Tambov – September 8, 1995, in Moscow) was a Soviet poet and writer. She is best-known as friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957).>>> Early life Ivinskaya, of German-Polish descent, was born in Tambov to a provincial high school teacher. In 1915, the family moved to Moscow. After graduating from the Editorial Workers Institute in Moscow in 1936, she worked as an editor at various literary magazines. She was an admirer of Pasternak since her adolescence, attending literary gatherings to listen to his poetry. She married twice: the first time to Ivan Emelianov in 1936, who hanged himself in 1939, having one daughter, Irina Emelianova; the second time in 1941 to Alexander Vinogradov (later killed in the war), producing one son, Dmitry Vinogradov. >>> Relationship with Pasternak She met Boris Pasternak in October 1946, in the editorial office of Novy Mir, where she was in charge of the new authors department. She was romantically involved with him until his death, although he refused to leave his wife. Early in 1948, he asked her to leave Novy Mir, as her position there was getting more difficult because of their relationship. She took up a role as his secretary instead. Ivinskaya collaborated closely with Pasternak on translating poetry from foreign languages into Russian. While she was translating the Bengali language poet Rabindranath Tagore, Pasternak advised her, to "1) bring out the theme of the poem, its subject matter, as clearly as possible; 2) tighten up the fluid, non-European form by rhyming internally, not at the end of the lines; 3) use loose, irregular meters, mostly ternary ones. You may allow yourself to use assonances." Later, while collaborating with him on a translation of the Czech language poet Vítězslav Nezval, Pasternak told Ivinskaya, "Use the literal translation only for the meaning, but do not borrow words as they stand from it: they are absurd and not always comprehensible. Don't translate everything, only what you can manage, and by this means try to make the translation more precise than the original—an absolute necessity in the case of such a confused, slipshod piece of work." Pasternak acknowledged Ivinskaya as the inspiration for Doctor Zhivago's heroine Lara. Many poems by Yuri Zhivago in the novel were addressed by Pasternak to Ivinskaya. In October 1949, Ivinskaya was arrested as "an accomplice to the spy" and was sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD to five years in the Gulag. That was seen as an attempt to press Pasternak to give up writings critical of the Soviet system. In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Pasternak wrote, "She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial. I owe my life and the fact that they did not touch me in those years to her heroism and endurance."

At that time of her arrest, Ivinskaya was pregnant by Pasternak and miscarried. She was released in 1953 after Stalin's death. Doctor Zhivago was published in Italy in 1957 by Feltrinelli, with Ivinskaya conducting all negotiations on Pasternak's behalf. Ivinskaya was one of nine "prisoners of conscience" featured in Persecution 1961, a book by Peter Benenson that helped launch Amnesty International. In it, Benenson lauded her for refusing to cooperate with authorities and for willingly suffering to protect Pasternak. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of Soviet archives, some sources suggested that, like most torture victims, she had been induced to cooperate with the KGB. - New York Times mentions "Moskovsky Komsomolets" as a source. >>> Final years After Pasternak's death in 1960, Ivinskaya was arrested for the second time, with her daughter, Irina Emelianova. She was accused of being Pasternak's link with Western publishers in dealing in hard currency for Doctor Zhivago. The Soviet government quietly released them, Irina after one year, in 1962, and Ivinskaya in 1964. She served four years of an eight-year sentence, apparently to punish her for the relationship. In 1978, her memoirs were published in Paris in Russian and were translated in English under the title A Captive of Time. Ivinskaya was rehabilitated only under Gorbachev in 1988. All of Pasternak's letters to her and other manuscripts and documents had been seized by the KGB during her last arrest. She spent several years in litigation trying to regain them. However, those were blocked by Pasternak's daughter-in-law, Natalya. The Supreme Court of Russia ended up ruling against her on the ground that "there was no proof of ownership," and "papers should remain in the state archive." She died in 1995 from cancer. A reporter on NTV compared Ivinskaya's role to that of other famous muses for Russian writers: "As Pushkin would not be complete without Anna Kern, and Yesenin would be nothing without Isadora Duncan, so Pasternak would not be Pasternak without Olga Ivinskaya, who was his inspiration for 'Doctor Zhivago.'" Her daughter, Irina Emelianova, who emigrated to France in 1985, published a book of memories of her mother's affair with Pasternak.

Beautiful "Doctor Zhivago"...

Surely, one of the most beautiful movies ever made, and one of the finest books ever written (and I didn't even read it in the original Russian!): "Doctor Zhivago," by Boris Pasternak...

Beautiful Gems Have Power!!!...

..."Without knowledge of jewelry, is woman is lost!!!"

Maria Schell's Romany Dance...

Mozart's "21st Piano Concerto"...

"Lay Down"...

Midnight Rain"...

"Plasir D'Amour"...

Things Sacred To The Lady Hekate...

Things sacred to Hekate are: mandrake, nightshade, monkshood, crows, bats, toads. Whiskey is always a good offering to give her.She is the Lady Of The Crossroads, so go to the nearest crossroads, take with you an apple cut in half horizontally to show the 5 seeds in a pentacle-like shape. Leave the apple at the crossroads.

Hecate Night, --- Novemebr 16th...

Dogs are the only ones who can see her. If your dog barks and barks and BARKS on Novemeber 16th she may be passing by!!!... Be careful in your dealings with the Lady Hecate. She will see that everyone involved gets EXACTLY what they deserve!!!...>>>

The Wallendas...

Yes. >>> members of the Wallenda family are still performing today. Several branches of the Wallendas, including most of Karl's grandchildren, continue to perform regularly and have achieved recognition in Guinness World Records. Additionally, the sixth and seventh generations of the Flying Wallendas are actively performing, with family members reenacting historical stunts. The family is known for their thrilling performances and continues to entertain audiences worldwide. >>> They are CIRCUS. What other reason could there be for what they did and do???!!!... >>> Karl Wallenda was born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1905 to an old circus family, and began performing at the age of six. While still in his teens he answered an ad for a "hand balancer with courage." His employer, Louis Weitzman, taught him the trade. In 1922, Karl put together his own act with his brother Herman, Joseph Geiger, and a teenage girl, Helen Kreis, who eventually became his wife. The act toured Europe for several years, and when John Ringling saw them perform in Cuba, he quickly hired them to perform at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 1928, they debuted at Madison Square Garden. The act performed without a net (it had been lost in transit) and the crowd gave them a standing ovation. In 1944, while the Wallendas were performing in Hartford, Connecticut, a circus fire broke out, killing over 168 people. None of the Wallendas were hurt. In the following years, Karl developed some of their most impressive acts, such as the seven-person chair pyramid. They continued performing those acts until January 30, 1962, when, while performing at the Shrine Circus at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum, the front man on the wire, Dieter Schepp, faltered, and the pyramid collapsed. Three men fell to the ground, killing Richard Faughnan, Wallenda's son-in-law; and nephew Dieter Schepp. Karl injured his pelvis, and his adopted son, Mario, was paralyzed from the waist down. Dieter's sister, Jana Schepp, let go of the wire to fall into the quickly-raised safety net, but bounced off and suffered a head injury. Other tragedies include when Wallenda's sister-in-law, Yetta, fell 50 feet to her death in 1963, after fainting during her act. Wallenda's son-in-law, Richard ("Chico") Guzman, was killed in 1972 after touching a live electric wire while holding part of the metal rigging. Nonetheless, Karl decided to go on. He repeated the pyramid act in 1963 and 1977. Karl continued performing with a smaller group, and doing solo acts. Karl crossed the Tallulah Gorge in Georgia on a high wire on July 18, 1970. On March 22, 1978, during a promotional walk in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Karl fell from the wire and died. It was between the towers of Condado Plaza Hotel, one hundred feet high. He was 73. Nik Wallenda completed the walk on June 4, 2011, with his mother, Delilah. --- "Wikpedia".

The MAGIC OF A Red Gown!!!...

Cursed Bloodlines...

I LOVE Bats!!!...

INTERESTING... Top 10 World's Most Powerful Mafias...

They're not witches, (Or, --- ARE they???) BUT they should be...

Sicilian Witchcraft...

The MAFIA & Witchcraft???!!!...

The Evil Eye...

The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. Amulets to protect against it have been found dating to around 5,000 years ago. It is found in many cultures in the Mediterranean region, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, with such cultures often believing that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury, while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). The idea also appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature. --- "Wikpedia". >>> Hmmm... The EVIL EYE (@-@) >>> In "One For The Money," the novel by Janet Evanovich and in the movie, Joe Moretti's grandma, the SCARY old lady, talks about how she's "...gonna put the evil eye" on Stephanie... And, in "Moonstruck,"...

Italian Witchcraft...

"The Witches Of Eastwich," --- Dark Facts...

How To Make A Witch Bottle...

The History Of My Sin Perfume...

"My Sin" was formulated by the Russian perfumer Madame Zed (Marie Zéde) and launched in 1925. It was her final creation for Lanvin and became a resounding success, particularly in the United States. The fragrance is known for its rich blend of aldehydes, floral, animalic, and woody notes, which contributed to its popularity during the Roaring Twenties, a time when the concept of "sin" was culturally embraced. >>> Significance in Lanvin's History... The introduction of "My Sin" represented a pivotal moment for Jeanne Lanvin, who was one of the first couturiers to establish a successful perfume line. The fragrance was not only commercially successful but also helped solidify Lanvin's reputation as a prominent name in both fashion and fragrance. By 1925, Lanvin had expanded her business significantly, employing over 800 people and establishing her own perfume laboratory. >>> Composition and Characteristics... "My Sin" is characterized by its floral and animalic qualities, often described as sensual and decadent. The fragrance features a complex blend of notes that evoke a sense of allure and mystery. It has been noted for its musky jasmine and rose, underlined with civet and resins, creating a scent that is both inviting and provocative. >>> Legacy... "My Sin" remained in the Lanvin inventory until 1988, outlasting both Jeanne Lanvin and her daughter, Marguerite. The fragrance is remembered not only for its scent but also for its cultural significance during a transformative period in fashion and society. It continues to be a point of reference in discussions about vintage perfumes and their impact on modern fragrance creation. >>> In summary, "My Sin" is more than just a perfume; it is a historical artifact that reflects the evolution of the fragrance industry and the enduring legacy of Jeanne Lanvin's contributions to fashion and scent.

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Beautiful Garb!!!...

"The Black Cat Nero"...

"Samhain Song"...

Samhain's Celtic Traditions...

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