Sex, Marriage, & Fairytales || Spoken Word

Mead is a wine made entirely from fermented honey. The Vikings believed it to be an aphrodisiac. The bridegroom would drink mead for a month after his wedding day to ensure virility, and this became known as the HONEY-MONTH which later evolved into the word "HONEY MOON"

The Proper Etiquette Of A Woman Dating In The 1930′s

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While creating woman, God promised men that good and obedient ones would be found in all corners of the world. 

Then He made the earth round.

“Paradise under the Ceiling” envisages the establishment of a paradisiacal world in one’s own room. And paradise not in a figurative sense, but in the most literal, real sense of that word. Usual theories and notions of space assign it to some worlds that are remote in time and place, inaccessible to our real presence, worlds about which we can only dream and guess, but in reality it is impossible to see them: they exist too high and far away, if they exist at all.

(Kabakov, E & I 1998, 24)

Rodney Smith

Storm in a teacup

Storm in a teacup (in British English), tempest in a teapot (in American English) is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.^[1] 


Both the American and British phrases are long preceded by Cicero's Latin "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo".^[5] The phrase, translated literally, reads: "He was stirring up waves in a ladle".

Narrator: Hector was not forgiven. Not yet. Not inside her. But Aisha would forgive Hector, as Hector would forgive her. One day. She knew that.

Maybe that's what marriage was, at it's core it was negotiation. It was surrender. 

The Slap - Episode 7 Aisha

Ghada Abdel Aal

Ghada Abdel Aal, Egyptian pharmacist and author of “I Want to Get Married!”

“A Girl got nothing but her husband’s house”

Egyptian proverb. 

To Be a Single Egyptian Woman: The Mindset of a Society

By Yomna El-Saeed

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Erwin Blumendeld

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897 – 1969) was a famous American photographer of German origin.

In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was interned in a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish. In 1941, he could escape to the USA.

In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography. In the 1960s, he worked on his autobiography which found no publisher because it was considered to be too ironic towards society, and was published only after his death.

Flower Meanings

By Velvet Lily Florist

Bride's took 'Flower Meanings' into account when selecting their wedding flowers many years ago. The team at Velvet Lily Florist have noticed this old school tradition is making a huge comeback... So, to help you make the right decision we have provided the following information to assist you in your flower choice. Enjoy xx

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Inspiration from 'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams'

Dorothea Tanning. Un tableau très heureux (A very happy picture), 1947

Paul Delvaux . L'Acropolis (The Acropolis), 1966

Erwin Blumenfeld. Manina ou L'Ame du torse (Manina, or the torso's soul), 1934

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West African Wisdom: Adinkra Symbols & Meanings

       

Adinkra are visual symbols, originally created by the Akan of Ghana and the Gyaman of Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa, that represent conceptsor aphorisms. Adinkra are used extensively in fabrics, pottery, logos and advertising. They are incorporated into walls and other architectural features. Fabric adinkra are often made by woodcut sign writing as well as screen printing. Adinkra symbols appear on some traditional akan gold weights. The symbols are also carved on stools for domestic and ritual use. Tourism has led to new departures in the use of the symbols in such items as T shirts and jewelry.

The symbols have a decorative function but also represent objects that encapsulate evocative messages that convey traditional wisdom, aspects of life or the environment. There are many different symbols with distinct meanings, often linked with proverbs. In the words of Anthony Appiah, they were one of the means in a pre-litrate society for "supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief".^[1]

meanings

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feeling motivated

like when you said "you felt so happy you could die".