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Maison Schiaparelli (/ ˌ s k æ p ə ˈ r ɛ l i /; Italian: [skjapaˈrɛlli]) is a haute couture house created by avant-garde Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927, [1] and moving towards luxury ready-to-wear after being bought in 2007 by Diego Della Valle.
Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
Early bird dinner is a dinner served earlier than traditional dinner hours, particularly at a restaurant.Many establishments offer a seating prior to their main dinner seating with a reduced price menu, often more limited in selection than the standard dinner menu.
From shepherd’s pie to Shamrock Shakes, area restaurants are serving up themed favorites on St. Patrick’s Day and throughout March.
A typical blue-plate special board, from the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire. A blue-plate special is a discount-priced meal that changes daily. The practice was common from the 1920s in American and Canadian restaurants through the 1950s, especially in diners and greasy spoons.
In the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir, and the 2015 feature film adapted from it, Schiaparelli is the landing site for Ares 4, the fourth crewed mission to Mars. The protagonist, Mark Watney, an astronaut from Ares 3 who is stranded on Mars, must travel from Acidalia Planitia to Schiaparelli, a journey of 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi).
London financier Jim Slater donated an additional US$125,000, bringing the prize fund up to an unprecedented $250,000 ($1.82 million today) and Fischer finally agreed to play. [336] Before and during the match, Fischer paid special attention to his physical training and fitness, which was a relatively novel approach for top chess players at ...
Johnny Reid Edwards [1] (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the vice presidential nominee under US Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.