The One With All The Seafood!

Countless reruns and weekend viewing binges have made most of us the F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fanatics we are. The last episode may have been aired in May 2004, but our strongest TV show memories are mint-fresh thanks to the multiple episodes beamed ceaselessly on the telly. Trivia, quizzes, “friendly facts” keep us looped into the lives of our beloved characters. Some of the bits coined by the show writers have made it into daily parlance. It’s really no wonder that the first actors to be paid a million dollars each for every…

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Seafood Inspired Art and Craft

Eugène Delacroix, Still Life with Lobster and trophies of hunting and fishing (1826–1827), Louvre The abundance and variety of life in the rivers and the oceans has caught the imagination of artists and influenced their work through the ages. From fish pendants to octopus vases, here are some artefacts from across the world that were inspired by seafood. 1. Octopus Vases Pottery was a flourishing art in Mycenae (Ancient Greece). Sometime between 14th and 13th century B.C.E., the Mycenaeans started to decorate their pots with representations of octopus. A trend…

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