Beauty will save

Ready to spread wings. Victoria Secret fashion show, beautiful Angel Doutzen Kroes

Beautiful Angel Doutzen Kroes – super model and actress born in a small Dutch town of Oostermeer. As a representative of friezes – now disappearing nation, she has always felt her exclusivity. Interestingly, from an early age Kroes took care of the farm animals, and in her spare time engaged in short-track. Meanwhile, in high school, looking at the cover of fashion magazine, she realized that she wanted to become a model. And after hearing tales of the unexpected encounters with the model scouts, Kroes used to go to shopping centers, or looked for her modeling fate in the streets of Amsterdam. But nothing happened. However, before leaving the school Doutzen risked and sent her snapshots to model agency.
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Rising Star Margot Robbie

Rising Star Margot Robbie
Beautiful Australian Actress Margot Robbie has recently celebrated her 25th birthday. Margot Robbie was born Margot Elise Robbie 2 July 1990 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. She has been working in the film and television industry since she was in high school. During her successful career she had opportunity to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Cara Delevingne. Margot Robbie’s latest Awards and nominations include Breakthrough Actress (2014), Rising Star Award (2015), and her star continues to rise. Margot Robbie – “I am still so difficult to get a job and prove better than others. There are so many talented actresses … When you watch the film, the girl in the lead role is always gorgeous and slim. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way, and when you get into this business, you really feel the pressure.”
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Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana as snowmen in the Netherlands (1913). Creation of Snowman

Creation of Snowman
In Russia, there is a good proverb “Prepare the sled in summer, and cart in winter”. Indeed, when, if not in summer to write about the most cheerful winter ritual – making snowman. Meanwhile, the tradition is very ancient. Thus, the first written mention of a snowman dates back to the 13th century. Interestingly, believe it or not, but first snowman was an evil character! That’s why many wanted him to melt. In fact, snowman represented frost, blizzard, short daylight hours, cold and other winter woes! Indeed, Snowman was the spirit of winter since ancient pagan times. Nevertheless, surrounded by a lot of prejudice, Snowman has survived. And in some areas of tsarists Russia, instead of January people used the word “snowman”! In addition, some sources also claim that the Slavs believed in living in the winter sky some nymphs who commanded snow, fog and snowstorm. And they sculpted snowmen to glorify and to honor them.
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Pineberry. Little-known fruit and vegetable hybrids

Little-known fruit and vegetable hybrids

The Pineberry – a strawberry cultivar with a pineapple-like flavor, white coloring, and red seeds. The pineberry first appeared in the 1750s in Europe, as a cross between an American wild strawberry and a Chilean strawberry. Fruit hybrids have nothing to do with genetically modified instances, it is a merit of breeders. Clementines, tangerines, Pineberry, have excellent taste, but in addition, they are also good for health. Hard to believe, but the history of breeding dates back to the Neolithic period, when man had to choose the best seeds for future crops. However, in those days, nobody even suspected that this simple method can change the flora in the healthy direction. Selected seeds each time give more and better crops.
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Poppies. Flower landscape of Lake Geneva (Lake Leman) in Switzerland

Flower landscape of Lake Geneva
Known also as Lake Leman, the French lake in Switzerland and France, is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe. The beauty of the coast of the lake is well known and flower landscape attracts many tourists and travelers. By the way, Mary and Percy Shelley, as well as Lord Byron had a vacation in these places and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the basis for the novel Frankenstein. Besides, Vladimir Lenin rented a chalet on the French coast near Geneva. And actor Charlie Chaplin spent his final years and died in Vevey (a memorial statue). Also, Pop singer Phil Collins lives in a house overlooking the lake. Group Queen had recording studios (which are still in use today) in Montreux. In addition, there is a statue of singer Freddie Mercury, who also owned a home in Montreux, on the northern shore of the lake. And finally, Ex-Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher lives with his family near the lake.
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Unique vaudeville actresses chained for life Daisy and Violet Hilton (5 February 1908 – 4 January 1969)

Chained for life Daisy and Violet Hilton

At the beginning of the XX century headlines and Announcement posts in European media were full of advertisements about performances of unique vaudeville actresses – Daisy and Violet Hilton. These beautiful and definitely talented English girls were Siamese twins, or conjoined twins, and spent a lifetime together. Meanwhile, this sad and not vaudevillian story has everything: love, betrayal, and the world of glamour and intrigue.
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Decorative plant – Beautiful Calibrachoa

Beautiful Calibrachoa
The impressive cascade of small bells of different colors in hanging baskets – that’s the beauty of Calibrachoa. People use this basket plant for landscaping balconies, terraces, southern windows and grow as garden plants. The genus of Calibrachoa belongs to the family of Solanaceae. Also, it is a perennial plant. Most plants of this kind are similar to the varieties of petunias. However, they are not petunias, despite the fact that some botanical textbooks call this plant petunia.
Noteworthy, in 1990, scientists proved that Calibrachoa differs from petunia in DNA structure. In particular, Petunias have 14 chromosomes, while Calibrachoa has 18. Undoubtedly, it is a completely different plant, although related to each other. By the way, Calibrachoa got its name after Mexican botanist Antonio de la Cal y Bracho, who lived in a 19th-century.
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