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.
The Brazilian
carnival, and in particular the carnival that takes place in Rio de Janeiro,
the most famous city of the country, is the event that should be seen not
discussed at all. Hundreds of books are written and published about this magnificent
event, though until you see it once, you cannot evaluate the scope and
solemnity of the parade. Though, you are free to find some information about this
event before the carnival takes place and prepare for it.
The similarity of both events is easy to observe.
In both cases the people celebrate
the eve of the most rigorous fasts of Christians, Great Lent, followed by the principal
holiday for Catholics and Easter for Orthodox people. And the nature of such celebration is easily explained.
People wish to enjoy emotionally
and physically just before they go into the total abstinence for mind and body.
And here the mentality of nation matters. For the severe Russian people some strained
emotions, concentration on inner world are more typical where the top of the
allowed public entertainment is fairs with merry contests, national fun event
when the groups of people fight with another group of people and the event
called «who can drink alcohol and enjoy it to regret on the following day». And
unlike it, the natives of the tropical and hot Brazil that present the mix of
European immigrants, the aborigines and offspring of dark-skin slaves, prefer
dances most of all to express their emotions and feelings prior to fasts. The more
rousing and seducing the dances, the better.
Dances, and
in particular the Brazilian samba, is the part the carnival in Rio de Janeiro
is based on that takes place every year since 1928. From early XX century the samba
was accepted as the major and the only constituent part of the carnival, and
since 1900 the special moving platforms were used for the participants where
the skilled dancers demonstrated their art of dancing. The same platforms are used
currently though they are far more sophisticated for ease and comfortable
performance. Each and every platform presents the separate school of samba. The
school of samba is the association of people built mainly on the regional factor,
where natives of one or several neighboring communities join together. And
within several months prior to the main carnival each school is engaged in
detailed and thorough preparation to the carnival.
Every school
should prepare something unique and original, their performance should demonstrate
some fairy motives, with natural patterns presenting animals or birds, or
demonstrate some particular kind of sport, and so forth. Moreover, the costumes
of dancers should match the theme they choose to demonstrate on platforms. Yet,
the public does not endure when one participates in the carnival in the costume
that was worn some time back in the same carnival events. This is like the crime to accuse.
Details are
important and this is proved to be essential on these carnivals. It takes long-lasting
lessons to sophisticate the whole performance, all movements, every turn of the
head or gesture. There is the special commission that judges every detail and
element of the show made by this or that school of samba. And everything matters
here, brilliant smile of the main woman dancer, the well-sounded drum beat and
the luxury decoration of allegoric figures on the platform.
Though, the
samba ceremony itself takes place not in the street of Rio de Janeiro but on the
specially built structure with 800 meter avenue and sidebar tribunes for 70
thousand spectators, the impetuous joy covers the city and the road traffic is
actually sustained for 4 days, from Saturday to Wednesday. Thus, it is no wonder
why the mayor of Rio de Janeiro hands over the symbolic keys to the city at the
opening of every carnival event to the so called King Momo annually elected.
Every resident of the city may be elected Momo King with the weight of less
than 140 kg.
Rio de Janeiro
Carnival is undoubtedly the most popular carnival in the world. And every year approximately
half a million of tourists arrive to observe this event, including celebrities
and stars of show-biz and sport.
However,
there are times when there are problems with carnival, the same as with other
entertainment functions. The most vital problem the carnival faces is the
excess sexual activity of its participants. The atmosphere of rigorous joy, lack
of restrain followed by lots of alcohol stimulates the increased sexual
activity. Unfortunately, it brought to the high figure of AIDs sickness rate for
the recent years, and the figures were so much serious that some experts
announced on somewhat HIV- epidemic in relation to the carnival. The only measure
the government of Brazil uses to struggle this epidemic is free distribution of
condoms. Moreover, within the carnival activity the crime is more often committed
when gangsters from favels rob the numerous tourists.
We do hope that
the government of Rio de Janeiro will cope with these problems and the guests
and tourists who are willing to arrive there for the carnival, will not decide
for staying and watching the event on TV instead of seeing it live.
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.
