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Mendicant Melody part 3

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What strange subterranean passages of sentiment and tone, from the lively airs of the opera-bouffe to the plaintive entreaties directed toward deserted windows! “Signori, something...

Mendicant Melody part 2

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Evidences of poverty and misery and signs, of a life of hardship were manifested by the instruments themselves; the voice of weariness and anguish...

Mendicant Melody part 1

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Edmondo De Amicis (1846— 1908) De Amicis is best known to the world as the author of the children`s classic, Cuore. De Amicis was a...

He who Married a Dumb Wife

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Frangois Rabelais (149-?-1553) Rabelais was born at Chinon in Touraine during the last years of the Fifteenth Century. He studied medicine at Montpellier and then...

The Priest and the Mulberries part 2

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“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the...

The Priest and the Mulberries part 1

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The Priest and the Mulberries Anonymous: 12th or 13th Century Practically nothing is known of the author of this pleasant little Fabliau. Compared with the great...

Zheravna Festival

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Private tours Bulgaria. Bulgaria is no different from any other country in the world. It has its own history, heroes, legends. It surely had...

Rhodope Mountains – Legends and Reality

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Today’s train of tour Bulgaria is leaving the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia (private tour Sofia), to travel to the Rhodope Mountains. It stops at...

The Jewish Mother

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Biblical Literature It is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales....

The Haunted House

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Pliny The Younger (62—II3 A.D.) The Letters of Pliny the Younger (known in Latin as C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) give a pleasant and varied picture...

Mihrimah Mosque

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Grand Balkan Tour

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