Mindlessness is an English term which means that we live without awareness, replicating the same behaviors and habits, as if we had put our existence on autopilot mode. Mindlessness is the opposite of mindfulness.
French aviator, war hero and tennis player. The Stade de Roland Garros in Paris was named after him. The correct pronunciation of Roland Garros is roh-LOHN ga-ROS, the stress is on the capital letters.
Tzatziki is a traditional Greek dip made of Greek yogurt, cucumber, mint, garlic, lemon, sea salt and black pepper. It is used in a variety of Greek dishes such as in the Gyro or to accompany Souvlaki. The pronunciation of tzatziki is often wrongly transcribed as tsah-see-key. The main problem is the -see...
Tommy Hilfiger is an American fashion designer of Dutch-German descent. He is the founder of the eponymous company and brand, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. He started his career opening a clothing store with some friends in the 1970s and began designing his own menswear line in the 1980s. He primarily designed jeans and...
Christian Louboutin is a French footwear designer who is the founder of the brand of the same name. His stiletto shoes are easily recognizable by their red-lacquered soles. The correct way to pronounce Louboutin in French often eludes English speakers even if the pronunciation isn't all that difficult. You'll often hear pronunciations along...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, poet, playwright, painter, statesman and also wrote numerous scientific treatises. Among his most noted works are The Sorrows of Young Werther, which is often considered the world's first bestseller and the epic, Faust. The correct pronunciation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in German can be phonetically approximated as Yo-han Volf-gang Fohn...
German philosopher, philologist, poet, cultural critic, composer and often wrote through the use of aphorisms. Some of the most noted texts he wrote are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. To aid pronunciation for English-speakers, the phonetic transcription of his name can be written as...
The French expression Ça va sans dire, which is the literal translation of "this goes without saying" has become very familiar to the English-speaking world. The idiom means there is no need to say it, it’s obvious, it’s evident... but I’m going to say it anyway. We can also say Cela va sans...
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter and graffiti artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, and was a very close friend of Andy Warhol. Although Basquiat died young, he was a leading neo-expressionist. His work focused on social criticism of existing power structures and race relations, as well as combating colonialism...
Austrian painter and printmaker, born Egon Leon Adolf Schiele. He was Gustav Klimt's disciple
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