Food to Eat for Healthy Skin
As the largest organ in the body, your skin is easily influenced by what you eat. Not only does proper nutrition and diet improve your overall health, it also plays a key role in how your skin can look and feel. Eating a diet rich in omega-fatty acids, potent antioxidants and lean protein can ward off the...
The Italian Lakes’ 10 Best Gardens
Although Italy’s lakes district lies at the foot of snow-covered Alps, the warming effect of the lakes creates microclimates that nurture tropical and subtropical plants. Palm trees frame views of snow-capped mountain peaks, but temperate flowering plants such as azaleas and rhododendrons thrive just as happily in this lovely setting. Villa Carlotta
Visiting Lake Como’s Villas and Gardens
Large, very impressive villas perch on Lake Como's shore. Although most of them are privately owned, some are open to the public. Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo Wealth from the textile trade funded the Clerici's family's early 18th-century construction of Villa Carlotta, in Tremezzo. The property acquired its current name in 1843, when...
Is it Possible to Play Tetris Forever
The basic goal of Tetris is to compile the highest score and essentially last the longest amount of time without letting the tetrominoes stack all the way up to the top of the screen. With that said, the question has been asked over and over again about whether or not it may actually be possible to play...
Survival Horror Video Game
To your right is a pack of zombies, freshly risen from the grave. To your left, a gang of possessed dogs. And right in front of you, well, she might have been a nurse at one point, but now she's some kind of deformed walking-dead. You prepare to...
Resident Evil Playstation Game from the 90s
The Resident Evil series has become a landmark in modern video games. Although the first title in the franchise wasn’t the original survival horror game, it certainly brought the genre into mainstream popularity, spawning thirteen years of sequels, remakes, film adaptations and imitators in its wake. The latest installment, Resident Evil 5, has already...
Good Nintendo DS Games for Young Children
It would be very helpful if the packaging of each video game displayed details of the age group of those who would enjoy playing it. In the US and Canada many games have a ESRB rating of E, suitable for everyone (especially age 6+), similar in the UK to a rating of 3+ or 7+. These games...
The Swashbuckler – The Adventure Movie
By the 1930s, Douglas Fairbanks was in his 50s and had decided 1929's The Iron Mask would be his last swashbucling adventure. It was time for a new cinematic hero to emerge. The silent era was over and cinema now had a voice. Just as every modern star has relies on an action based franchise, so the...
Mary Pickford Biography – Silent Film Star and Hollywood Pioneer
Born in 1892, little Gladys Smith of Toronto, Ontario took to the stage to help support her family after the death of her father. Beginning her career as Baby Gladys, by adolescence the young girl had changed her name to Mary Pickford and started working as a film set extra. She was noticed by director D.W. Griffith...
Warblade: a Great Vertical Shooter for the iPhone and iPad
The vertical shooter is one of the oldest genres in videogaming. Classics like Space Invaders and Galaga were two of the first popular arcade games. Warblade brings life to this old genre through excellent graphics, replayability, and a host of interesting gameplay twists. Warblade for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Features