What is is one of the oldest magazines in the country and the first Belgian women's magazine, Femmes d’Aujourd’hui or Better Homes and Gardens?
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Femmes d’Aujourd’hui Femmes d’Aujourd’hui (meaning "Women of Today" in English) is a French language weekly women's magazine published in Mechelen, Belgium. Founded in 1933, it is one of the oldest magazines in the country and the first Belgian women's magazine.
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Better Homes and Gardens (magazine) Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. The editor in chief is Stephen Orr. "Better Homes and Gardens" focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.
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Les Femmes d'Alger Les Femmes d'Alger (Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish cubist artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954-1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting "The Women of Algiers in their Apartment" (French: "Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement" ). The series is one of several painted by Picasso in tribute to artists that he admired.
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Bare (magazine) Bare was a British magazine developed and launched as a wellbeing brand by the John Brown Media company It was published from Sept/Oct 2000 to August 2001, with six issues per year. An early version of the magazine, then called "Well" was tested in market research groups in 1999 where Claudia Zeff, then art director of "UK Gardens Illustrated" commissioned designer, Kirsten Willey to produce a wellbeing magazine concept. It was Zeff who suggested the name change from "Well" to "Bare" after watching a BBC documentary about British architect, John Pawson.
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Fin-de-Siècle Museum The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (French: "Musée Fin-de-Siècle", "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1868, when the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was founded Brussels, and 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The museum opened on 6 December 2013.
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HUB Uitgevers HUB Uitgevers (HUB Publishers) was a Netherlands-based magazine publisher. HUB Uitgevers was founded in 1993 and has grown to be one of the leading IT publishers, with over 15 consumer titles, and a number of business-to-business magazines. More recently they ventured into the lifestyle segment publishing two women's and a men's magazine.
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Tintin (magazine) "Tintin" magazine (French: "Le Journal de Tintin" ; Dutch: "Kuifje" ) was a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century. Subtitled ""The Magazine for the Youth from 7 to 77"", it was one of the major publications of the Franco-Belgian comics scene and published such notable series such as "Blake and Mortimer", "Alix", and the principal title "The Adventures of Tintin". Originally published by Le Lombard, the first issue was released in 1946, and it ceased publication in 1993.
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Germaine Kieckens Germaine Kieckens (1906 – October 26, 1995) was a Belgian secretary, the first wife of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, to whom she was married from 1932 to 1977. They met while she was working as secretary for the Abbé Norbert Wallez, editor of "Le XXe Siècle" newspaper.
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Gay (magazine) Gay was Toronto's first gay magazine, published almost simultaneously with "ASK Newsletter", together Canada's first gay magazines. The magazine was first printed on 30 March 1964. The earliest periodical anywhere to use 'Gay' in its title. Produced by four Toronto men in a commercial venture, the Gay Publishing Company, "Gay" ran serious articles, letters to the editor, a diary, gossip columns, a feature called the "Gabrial Club", poetry, fiction, politics and a discrete personals column. "Gay" was illustrated, usually with photographs of drag queens, but also including 'physique' photography.
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La mère éducatrice La mère éducatrice (meaning "Motherhood and Education" in English) was a feminist anarchist magazine founded by Madeleine Vernet. The magazine was first published in October 1917. The headquarters was in Levallois-Perret. Madeleine Vernet also edited the magazine. The magazine adopted a pacifist, socialist and educative stance. It existed until 1939.
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Vrij Nederland Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands) is a Dutch magazine which was established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper but has since grown into a magazine. The weekly magazine is generally considered to be intellectually left-wing. It is conventionally considered to be one of the four most influential written media in its sector, along with "HP/De Tijd", "De Groene Amsterdammer" and "Elsevier".
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Marie de Villermont Marie de Villermont (1848–1925), countess of Hennequin, was a Belgian artist, writer and feminist.
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Huis Ten Bosch (theme park) Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス , "Hausu Ten Bosu" ) is a theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, which recreates the Netherlands by displaying life-sized copies of old Dutch buildings. The name Huis Ten Bosch translates into English as "House in the Woods/bush". It is named after Huis ten Bosch, one of the three official residences of the Dutch Royal Family, located in The Hague in the Netherlands and former home to Princess Beatrix.
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Le Droit des femmes Le Droit des femmes ("Women's Rights") was a French feminist journal that appeared from 1869 to 1891. It was founded and edited by Léon Richer, and in the early days supported financially by Maria Deraismes. The newspaper supported many women's causes, but always avoided directly supporting women's suffrage. It was one of the longest running journals of its type in the 19th century.
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DW B DW B is the oldest literary magazine in Flanders that is still in print. It was first published as "Dietsche Warande en Belfort", co-founded by Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, as a merger between two earlier literary magazines, "Dietsche Warande" and "Het Belfort". "Dietsche Warande" had been established in the Netherlands in 1855 by Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm, whose brother Paul had moved it to Flanders in 1887. "Het Belfort" was founded in 1886 by Jan Bols.
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Modes &amp; Travaux Modes & Travaux is a French language monthly general interest women's magazine based in Paris, France. Founded in 1919 it is one of the oldest magazines in the country.
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Wiel Motor Magazine Wiel Motortydskrif was South Africa's oldest - and the world's only - motoring magazine in the Afrikaans language.
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Amélie van Assche Amélie van Assche (born 1804 - ?) was a Belgian painter. She was born in 1804, and was the daughter of Henri Jean van Assche. Her sister, Isabelle Catherine van Assche, a landscape painter, was a pupil of her uncle, Henri Van Assche. Her first teachers were Miss F. Lagarenine and D'Antissier. She later went to Paris, where she spent some time as a pupil of Millet. At the opening of the 19th century, the "Art of the Miniature" was cultivated—as expressed at the time—by Hortense van Baerlen, Marie-Josèphe Dargent, and Assche. She made her debut at Ghent in 1820, and in Brussels in 1821, with watercolors and pastels, and some of her miniatures figured in the various exhibitions at Brussels between 1830 and 1848, and in Ghent between 1835 and 1838. Her portraits, which are, thought to be very good likenesses, are also admirable in color, drawing, and modelling; and her portrait of Leopold I., which she painted in 1839, won for her the appointment at court. She was a portrait painter and court painter to Queen Louise Marie of Belgium.
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Henry Avray Tipping Henry Avray Tipping (22 August 1855 – 16 November 1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of "Country Life" magazine for 17 years.
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Le Congo illustré Le Congo illustré (French; "The Congo Illustrated") was a fortnightly illustrated periodical, published in Brussels by Alphonse-Jules Wauters from December 1891 to December 1895. The magazine was dedicated to Belgian exploration and economic development in the Congo Free State with a focus on geography, ethnography and civil engineering. In 1896 "Le Congo illustré" was folded into "Le Mouvement Géographique", a journal also edited by Wauters.
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Al-Fatah (magazine) Al-Fatah (Arabic: الفتاة‎ ‎ / ALA-LC: "al-Fatāh", meaning "the young girl") was an Arabic women's magazine published in Alexandria, Egypt. The magazine was the first Arab women's magazine and was one of the earliest publications in the country. It was published from 1892 to 1894.
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Van Nu en Straks Van Nu en Straks ("Of Now and Later" or "Today and Tomorrow") was a Flemish literary and cultural magazine that was founded in 1893 by August Vermeylen. With a cover designed by Henry van de Velde, this magazine served as a vehicle for a Flemish literary revival and was associated with a heterogeneous group of writers and artists. They were devoted to art for art's sake, without holding dogmatic views on aesthetics or adherence to schools of art. The magazine was published in two series: from 1893–94 and from 1896-1901. It was succeeded in 1903 by the illustrated magazine "Vlaanderen", which was co-founded by Herman Teirlinck.