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Looks like an itsy-witsy teeny-weeny bikini to me

Posted on October 4, 2014 by maryannadair

I remember my mother telling me that the swimwear costume word known as”bikini” stemmed from the Bikini Islands, an atoll belonging to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean (which was also the backdrop for a set of nuclear test … Continue reading →

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Ever heard of the Barcade boys?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by maryannadair

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of coloured glass, stone, or other materials. Small pieces, normally roughly quadratic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to … Continue reading →

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