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  There are 9 different sizes of champagne bottles, containing a number of glasses depending on the size of the glass. The standard Champagne bottle contains about 6 glasses of champagne.   The 9 bottle sizes are: Mini/Piccolo/Quarter      20 cl  (quarter standard bottle) = 2 glasses Half/Demi                     37.5 cl (half standard bottle) = 3 glasses Standard                       75 cl (1 standard bottle) = 6 glasses Magnum                        1.5 L (2 standard bottles) = 12 glasses Jeroboam/Double Magnum  3 L (4 standard bottles) = 24 glasses Methuselah                   6 L (8 standard bottles) = 48 glasses Salmanazar                 9 L(12 standard bottles) = 72 glasses Balthazar                      12 L (16 standard bottles) = 96 glasses Nebuchadnezzar           15 L (20 standard bottles) = 120 glasses MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I    Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs    I    Publications    I    Facebook    I    Paris Website    I    Paris blogs    I  

 

  Indignation  by Philip Roth (2008) is set in 1951-1952 in Ohio, America, during the Korean War.   Marcus Messner is nineteen years old and an A-grade student at Ohio’s Wineburg College. He was originally enrolled in a college in his hometown of Newark but changed college to get away from his parents, particularly his father, a hard-working butcher paranoid that his son Marcus will be drafted into the war and be killed in action.    Marcus just wants to do well in college – to keep to himself – even refusing to join a fraternity. The Dean of Men, Mr. Caudwell, calls Marcus into his office, concerned that he is not involved in college social life.    Marcus is indignant. He even thinks indignation is “the most beautiful word in the English language: in-dig- na -tion!” What is Marcus indignant about? What fills him with anger about his unfair treatment? Is this indignation righteous?   The setting over the duration of a year is the college, and characters are sparce – father, mother, Ol

  “The Painter of the Eye” is Antonio Veronese’s latest exhibition, held at the Town Hall of the 6 th  arrondissement in Paris from 30 April to 28 May 2024.   The Italian-Brazilian artist Antonio Veronese, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1953, has lived in Paris since 2004. Before leaving Brazil, he worked for 16 years teaching art to juvenile offenders in the Rio de Janiero prison system.    With 77 solo exhibitions around the world, French critics consider Veronese to be “one of the ten living painters who have already left their tracks on the history of Art.” His paintings in the 1980s and 1990s denouncing violence against child prisoners in Brazil led to a Supreme Court of Justice award and invitations to represent the United Nations. His works have been said to “connect with the soul, conveying pure, powerful emotion beyond words.” MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I    Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs    I    Publications    I    Facebook    I    Paris Website    I