The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
Chinese New
Year comes in the winter new moon after the midwinter, particularly between
January 21 and February 21. Every time the beginning of the year is determined
individually, considering dates of new moons and the Sun longitude.
Each year
of the 12-year cycle is named after one of the original 12 animals. Each animal
has a different personality and different characteristics, color and element.
We are not going to discuss all of them, but accentuate the one animal that is
in charge of us in the year 2009, that is Ox! This year the Ox is not the simple
animal but it is of Earth element, meaning that it is strongly intensified with
its element and natural brown color. That is why the Ox will be quite straightforward
and will show its best and worst features: lastingly gentle, peace-loving with
rare flashes of intensive anger; persistence, patience, insistence, solid, without
flexibility, inertia.
It is interesting
that it was the Chinese who invented so western like entertainment staff like
petards and fire crackers - fire flashes beautified the sky and entertained the
public, also they exorcised the demons that, as it was believed, were looking
for new housing on the eve of the New Year. And the Chinese people believed
that they could succeed in it by noises and cracks. There is another Chinese tradition
to face off evil spirits; this is to celebrate New Year in the red clothes that
will scare away evil spirits and bad fortune and to contain the appetite of a
monster that gets off its cage to regale itself on delicious people. Though
when celebrating the New Year party we do not advise that you wear in red since
it is obvious color for the monster, but the Ox hates this color and you only
enrage the animal.
Take it as normal
if you get two tangerines when leaving the house in China. If you don't, then
you made a mistake when you failed to give your two tangerines to the hosts,
when entering the house. The point is that the phrase «a couple of tangerines»
sounds as «gold» in Chinese language, moreover the fruit's color is quite the
same. Thus, when you bring tangerines to the host house, you bless their house
and attract wealth to it, and leaving the house, you have a portion of warm
wishes, as it is believed.
When
meeting a New Year, the Chinese serve the table with traditional dishes from
poultry, pork, vegetables or fish, sweet rice pies. Festive New Year dinner is,
first of all, re-union dinner and even if a member of the family fails to attend
the dinner, the place at the table is kept anyway. At the end of the dinner it is also common for
adults or young couples to give red envelopes or red packets to children with «happy
money» since it is supposed that New Year notes will attract fortune to you
during the whole year. And cleaning the house on or just after the New Year is
frowned upon since the Chinese believe that modest and humorous Gods make gifts
in form of dust and they are afraid to clean it away.
According
to the Chinese tradition New Year is the reason to show the fortitude, even if
you are seriously sick. It is widely believed that it is a bad luck to meet New
Year in the bedroom; if you stay in bed- you will have bad luck within seven
years. So, try your best to dress up, to apply makeup and go to the table and
enjoy the holiday, and the fortune will follow you.
The Chinese
do not use scissors or knives on the first day of the New Year; they believe
that they could cut their luck that way.
It is interesting
that the Chinese New Year is also known as the Holiday of Spring. And this is however
reasonable since as Spring symbolizes revival of the nature and renewal, so
people want to consider the new year as the new stage in their life where they
are more successful, richer, happier and smarter. And be sure that even the
most adventurous dreams come true!
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1980, the brand by Carolina Herrera is one of the well-known fashion brands; collections by Carolina Herrera make a conquest for the public love and demand due to elegance and delicacy of the fashion wear models. The collections were successful, though Carolina Herrera opened its perfume line first in 1988 presenting Carolina Herrera for Women. Carolina Herrera 212 is known to be the bestseller first launched in 1997, and today this fragrance takes its niche among the most recognized perfumes of the world.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
