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Abba became famous after winning the 1974 Eurovision contest with the song "Waterloo," which the band performed while wearing brightly colored outfits made mostly of satin. Over the next eight years, it would have a seemingly endless stream of hit singles, 10 of which would break the Top 20 in the U.S. Abba hasn't performed together since 1982, but thanks to the hit Broadway show and movie Mamma Mia!, its continued popularity has made it one of the best-selling groups in history. But those pantsuits! Those songs! Nominating Abba to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...premises of this Glasgow institution, willowtearooms.co.uk, which were designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1904. An extension, in Buchanan Street, has been impeccably fitted out in Mackintosh style. Both venues are a favorite with visitors, so go early to avoid the queues. Waitresses still wear rustling black satin uniforms like the ones they were sporting over a century...
...candles. His was far from the biggest, however. At one of the 6,000 parties thrown in honor of Franklin Roosevelt's birthday in 1934, 52 young girls - one for each year of the President's life - paraded through New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel wearing frothy white satin-and-chiffon gowns topped with hats shaped like triple-tiered birthday cakes. Each carried in her right hand a long pink electric candle. Clumping into the shape of a birthday cake, they held the candles over their heads, switched on their battery-powered flames and sang "Happy Birthday...
...aptly named Lost World Spa, a heated plunge pool, a games room, a lounge and a library, but O'Reilly's is above all a rambler's paradise, with stunning bird-watching and rainforest walks. When British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough sought ancient Antarctic beech trees and satin and regent bowerbirds to film for his acclaimed 1979 series Life on Earth, he went to the vast Lamington National Park, which surrounds O'Reilly's and forms part of an Australian World Heritage Site...
...drove back to the hospital where, thanks to my experiences, the food looked good. When we got home the following day, Sara gave us a truly beautiful placentapill presentation: a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD of lullabies and a satin pouch. In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart. When I asked Sara what the hell I was supposed to do with that, she said people often use it to keep a baby's first tooth and lock of hair. That's when I realized that placenta-eating is really just...