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Appaman is inspired by and named after the childhood companion of founder and designer Harald Husum. While growing up in Norway, Husum befriended a corduroy ape named Appaman. The appaman reflects the whimsical spirit of those youthful times and celebrates the unbreakable bond between a boy and his ape. It also brings a young male designer’s perspective to the world of boys clothing. The clothes are extremely well made and function perfectly on little bodies,  barefoot dreams is one of our favorite lines for divinely plush items for women, children and the home. With the outstanding success of their original signature receiving blanket.

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New York Rangers Tickets are now available. Come out and see New York’s finest men skate their way to victory. The Empire State strikes back with a vengeance when the Rangers hit the ice. See a game in the big apple, the city that never sleeps and has plenty of hockey games to showcase.

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“Pioneering Special Effects”

Marie-Georges-Jean Melies, a was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. Melies is sometimes referred to as the “Cinemagician” because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality with the cinematograph.

Melies was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick (or substitution) in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves and hand-painted color his films.

Melies was born in Paris in 1861. From a very early age, he showed interest in the arts, particularly in stage design and puppetry, which led him a place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

In 1884, Melies continued his studies in London at the request of his parents so he can learn English after which they intended him to work at his Father’s footwear business. While in London, he developed a keen interest in stage conjury after witnessing the work of Nevil Maskelyne and George Cook, key figures in magical entertainment.

On his return to Paris, Melies worked at his Father’s factory and took over as manager when his father retired. His position meant that he was able to raise enough money to buy the famous Theatre Robert Houdin when it was put up for sale in 1888. From that point on, he worked full time as a theatrical showman whose performances revolved around magic and illusions techniques which he studied while in London as well as working on his own tricks.

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Anna Pavlova was the most celebrated ballerina of her time. the legendary prima ballerina was born near St. Petersburg, Russia on February 12, 1881 during the cold whiteness of a Russian-Jewish background. Her real father was a wealthy businessman, named Lazar Polyakov. Her mother, named Mathwey (Mathew) Pavlov, was a retired soldier, who died when she was only two years old. Although she was registered under the name of Pavlova, her father Lazar Polyakov took good care of young Anna Pavlova and also paid for her tuition at the Imperial Ballet Schhol in St. Petersburgh.

When she was 8, her mother took her to a performance of “The Sleeping Beauty,” and Anna experience epiphany- a baptism by ballet. This and only this was what she wanted to do with her life. At the age of 10 she was admitted to the Imperial School of Ballet by Marius Petipa. Her exceptional gifts were immediately visible, and after graduating, at 18, she made her company debut on September 19, 1899 in a pas de trois in “La Fille Mal gardee,” and worked with the Mariinsky Ballet from 1899-1907. Anna never danced in the corps de ballet. She shared the role of Gizelle with “Matilda Kshesinskaya’. Her partner and choreogrpher was Mikhail Fokin. He choreographed Pavlova’s best known showpiece “The Dying Swan” on the music of Camille Saint-Saens. In 1908 Sergei Diaghilev hired Pavlova and Mikhail Fokin for his “Ballets Russes” (Russian Seasons) in Paris and London

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