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Traditional beauty(2001 Kyoto - Japan) In Kyoto, the geisha and their
apprentice, the maiko, entertain their customers in the traditional ochaya (teahouses).
"Gei" means arts or performance in Japanese. "Sha" means people. Geisha are professional
hostesses who entertain guests through Japanese ancient dance, song, instruments
(including a three stringed instrument called "shamisen"), flower arrangement, kimono,
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The two sisters (2004 New-York - USA) America probably could not have won its freedom from the British during the American Revolution without the help of the French. France provided arms, ships, money, and men to the American colonies. Some Frenchmen - most notably the Marquis de Lafayette, a close friend of George Washington - became high-ranking officers in the American army. Almost 100 years later (1865), several French intellectuals opposed to the oppressive regime of Napoleon III attended a dinner party discussing their admiration for America's success in establishing a democratic government and abolishing slavery at the end of the Civil War. The dinner was hosted by a political group dedicated to establishing a French republican government modeled on America's constitution. During the evening, talk turned to the close historic ties and love of liberty the two nations shared. People were talking about the "genuine flow of sympathy" between the two nations, and called France and America " the two sisters." The idea to give France sister "a great monument as a lasting memorial to independence and thereby showed that the French government dedication to the idea of human liberty" emerged. Years later, Bartholdi recalled the dinner with an idea which
"interested him so deeply that it remained fixed in his memory."
The Statue of Liberty carries on culminating in the US top performers of tourist
frequentation whereas the relations between the two sisters remain discrete.
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