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![]() ![]() Getty What is the difference between a high tea and afternoon tea? ![]() Today, afternoon tea is "still a graceful event, and brings people together for a brief hour's pleasure and refreshment". There was a newly translucent delicacy about the tea china itself thanks to Josiah Spode, who had at the start of the century invented bone china, a beautiful and inexpensive form of porcelain which kept tea hot even though it was so fine that you could see your fingers' shadows through it." "Tea services had also kept pace, with side plates, bread and butter plates, cake stands and every conceivable accompaniment advancing across the drawing room. There was no looking back.Īccording to Helen Simpson in The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea, "By the 1880s ladies were changing into long tea gowns for the occasion, appetites sharpened by the customary afternoon drive in a carriage." Her friends rather liked this idea and the trend took off. Over the past 25 years, it's become commonplace to call the traditional British "afternoon tea" (an elegant affair involving dainty finger sandwiches, scones and delectable sweet morsels), "high tea".Īfternoon tea has its origins in the early Victorian era of Britain, when Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford, took to summoning a tray of tea, bread and butter, and cake to her room when her spirits started to flag at 4pm. But it hasn't always been called high tea. High tea is one of the most popular experiences offered by hotels around Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the bio she struck me as a nasty piece of work, whereas in this fiction-based-on-fact tale, she comes across as a more sympathetic character.The author shows Catherine as an unloved person who’s treated badly or neglected by those who should care for her right from childhood. I had previously read an account of her after this period in a non-fiction work, namely a biography on Henry IV of France. ![]() ![]() I expected to dislike her character throughout this book, but despite a few “evil intentions”, I found myself on her side and making excuses for her whenever she went too far with anything.This novel covers her time from the age of six through to thirty-nine. All I knew of Catherine de Medici before reading this fictionalised account of her life was that she was a “bad” woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() And no one - including Kaplan himself - is spared his sharp wit. ![]() Along the way, Kaplan vividly recreates his encounters with eccentric employees, risk-addicted venture capitalists, and industry giants such as Bill Gates and John Sculley. Startup tells the story of Kaplan's wild ride: how he assembled a brilliant but fractious team of engineers, software designers, and investors pioneered the emerging market for hand-held computers operated with a pen instead of a keyboard and careened from crisis to crisis without ever losing his passion for his revolutionary idea. Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the hottest new ventures in the Valley. All he needed was sixty million dollars, a few hundred employees, and a maniacal belief in his ability to win the Silicon Valley startup game. Jerry Kaplan had a dream: he would redefine the known universe (and get very rich) by creating a new kind of computer. ![]() The classic account of the early days of tech, named one of the 10 best business books of the year by Business Week: "Riveting, wry, and often wise." - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tensions are inevitable between all siblings-especially when the older is a ruling monarch and the younger, her subject. Of course, their relationship wasn’t without its troubles. They’ll pay anything to see us,” Margaret replied. ”No one will pay that to look at us!” the future queen said to her sister, according to Brown. In light of Queen Elizabeth's passing at age 96, their relationship, once again, is back under the spotlight.Ĭolorful stories about their polarity dotted their childhood: take one Christmas pantomime during wartime at Windsor Castle, where Elizabeth fretted over the ticket price of seven and sixpence. “Elizabeth was organized, Margaret artistic Elizabeth discreet, Margaret attention-seeking Elizabeth dutiful, Margaret disobedient Elizabeth disciplined, Margaret wild,” Craig Brown recalled in Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. It ended up being a symbolic remark for the relationship the royal sisters held with society as a whole: Elizabeth was stoic and steadfast as the Queen of England, while Margaret remained mercurial and fabulous as she donned Dior dresses while partying around the world. ![]() Margaret is my joy,” King George VI once said of his two daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2010 (5) 2011 (3) 2014 (3) 4-star-guilty-pleasure (2) 5-star-guilty-pleasures (2) addiction (3) all-the-feels (2) anthology (4) audiobook (4) black-haired-hero (2) c-book (2) characters-i-loved (2) disability-or-scarred (2) ebook (10) eliz-georg-regency-vic (3) erotic historical romance (4) erotic romance (6) erotica (18) favorite (3) featherstone-charlotte (2) fiction (15) gr (4) guilty pleasure (4) hero-is-a-jerk (3) historical (17) historical fiction (5) historical romance (34) historical-romances-read (3) icl (2) library (3) locale-england (2) mf-romance (2) new imp (2) on-play (2) opium (3) own (31) plain-spinster-wallflower (2) quality-smut (4) read (3) read in 2011 (2) Regency (3) rom-historical (2) romance (38) Romance Historical Victorian (4) september-extravaganza-read (2) series (3) short-novella (2) to-read (102) to-reread (2) tortured-hero (3) Top Members ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, the bank was officially wound up by the authorities and then immediately "sold" to JPMorgan to prevent a global financial contagion. ![]() The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) said early Monday evening that regulators had seized First Republic Bank.ĭFPI appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver of First Republic and said it accepted a bid from JPMorgan Chase Bank. ![]() It was all too much for the bank to survive. Its stock price fell 75 per cent early last week on news that customers had withdrawn $US100 billion in deposits amid the onset of the banking crisis. Shares in First Republic Bank crashed on Wall Street on Friday, due to fears the financial health of the bank was in doubt. US regional bank First Republic had a little more than $US200 billion ($301 billion) worth of assets and around 7,000 employees, so it was a large, San Francisco-based bank.įor context, Lehman Brothers - before it collapsed in 2008, which sparked the global financial crisis - had roughly $US600 billion worth of assets. ![]() ![]() There, the late 1920s and ’30s saw the emergence of the Iron Guard (also known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael), one of the most violent and virulently anti-Semitic organizations in that part of Europe. Specifically, the play borrows from Ionesco’s own youth in Romania. The mass conversion of humans to rhinoceroses functions as a metaphor for the contagious rise of European fascism throughout the interbellum decades. ![]() But after the inexplicable appearance of a rhinoceros raging through its streets, the unassuming villagers begin to metamorphose, one by one, into the very same brutish and unthinking beast. ![]() Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play “Rhinoceros” begins in a sleepy, unnamed provincial village where nothing of note ever happens. ![]() ![]() Praise for Practicing History “Persuades and enthralls. This is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent “practicing history.” Spanning more than four decades of writing in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Saturday Evening Post, Tuchman weighs in on a range of eclectic topics, from Israel and Mao Tse-tung to a Freudian reading of Woodrow Wilson. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian’s craft in these perceptive, essential essays.įrom thoughtful pieces on the historian’s role to striking insights into America’s past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m actually not upset there are five books now to the series. All of this is not to say this was a horrible book. There is a significant development in Eva and Gideon’s relationship, but it wasn’t unexpected. Gideon is still have night terrors and can’t sleep in the same bed as Eva. I’m pretty sure something bad has happened to Megumi, Eva’s coworker and friend, but it’s all just a secretive build-up in this one. Gideon wants Eva to come work for him but she declines. Cary is still torn between Tatiana and his boyfriend. The police haven’t named Gideon a suspect, but the both of them are still nervous and decide to keep their relationship a secret from the public until the police decide to shelve the case. The book starts right where book two leaves off, as Eva and Gideon must come to terms with the fact that Gideon killed Eva’s abuser. But I need more than that to keep me going and this book lacks a solid story. It has the hot, hot (did I mention hot?) sex in it, and the crazy jealous, possessive, I’ll die without you attitudes that makes it so cracky. I was still quite frustrated with this book though. I knew this going in, so the lack of complete closure at the end of this book wasn’t a shock (although the end is VERY abrupt and felt odd). ![]() There has been much drama due to the fact this once trilogy is now drawn out to be five books. It’s so over the top crazy, yet I can’t look away. This series is my guilty pleasure crack series. Entwined With You by Sylvia Day (Crossfire #3) ![]() |
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