With European Union enlargement six months away, the former communist states of eastern and central Europe set to join the bloc are in an economic boom that contrasts sharply with the slump of their western neighbors. Poland, the largest economy in eastern Europe, is experiencing a “renewal of growth driven by a rise in exports,” […]
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Exhibition of Chess Sets by Major Artists from Faberg̩ to Hirst, Saturday 28th June РSunday 28th September 2003. One of the most compelling exhibitions in Britain this summer, The Art of Chess will feature nineteen chess sets designed by artists in the last hundred years that demonstrate the interaction between chess and modern art.
Polish cuisine is mix of influences: Russian, German, Italian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Jewish traditions have left their mark. The blending of this diversity with traditional favorites results in a menu that is varied and delicious. All the food groups are represented, with a little something from each group in every dish. Polish food ranges from
Connecting children around the world through the international language of art Paintbrush Diplomacy with its vibrant collection of children’s paintings from around the world has found a new home … at the San Mateo County History Museum in Redwood City, California. Under the restored, stained glass dome of the old county courthouse, the children’s paintings
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Available from The Edwin Mellen Press or at Amazon A preface from Daniel Gerould, Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York Theater is culturally bound to its own time and place in immediate ways that poetry, painting, and music are not. Above all, theater is performance
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