Companion Parrot
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The second generation of 'A Secret Friend' , a life size companion parrot.
Jewellery as part of home that you can bring with. Keep them save, and bring back to complete your forever friend at home.
Materials: Bronze, Silver, Aluminium
Edmund Dulac
Beauty and the Beast: They no sooner saw Beauty than they began to scream and chatter.
Sleeping Princesses
Princess and Parrot
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac, October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century).
One Thousand and One Nights: the Husband and the Parrot
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.
The work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.
Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century.
Warwick Goble (1862 – 1943)
The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
A good man had a beautiful wife, whom he loved passionately, and never left if possible. One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot. This parrot not only spoke well, but it had the gift of telling all that had been done before it. He brought it home in a cage, and asked his wife to put it in her room, and take great care of it while he was away. Then he departed. On his return he asked the parrot what had happened during his absence, and the parrot told him some things which made him scold his wife.
She thought that one of her slaves must have been telling tales of her, but they told her it was the parrot, and she resolved to revenge herself on him.
When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle. The slaves did this for part of the night, and did it very well.
The next day when the husband came back he asked the parrot what he had seen. The bird replied, "My good master, the lightning, thunder and rain disturbed me so much all night long, that I cannot tell you what I have suffered."
The husband, who knew that it had neither rained nor thundered in the night, was convinced that the parrot was not speaking the truth, so he took him out of the cage and threw him so roughly on the ground that he killed him. Nevertheless he was sorry afterwards, for he found that the parrot had spoken the truth.
Parrot Bird Feeder
Perky parrot cups his tail feathers, forming a scoop to offer his birdie buddies a tasty tropical treat! Beautifully painted and wonderfully detailed, this fabulous figural bird feeder doubles as both gorgeous decoration and functional garden accessory! Polyresin. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 11 1/4" high.
Available at: Your Garden Decor Store
Parrot Pen with Voice Recorder
A Cute Parrot body design that houses a retractable ballpoint pen
Ultra bright red LED light hidden in its mouth
6 seconds recording time
Italian TV Program ''Portobello'' (1977-1983)
Portobello was one of the most popular TV program of the italian television. It was broadcasted on RAI 2 channel from 1977 to 1983 (and for a short period also in 1987) and it was hosted by Enzo Tortora, a popular italian TV host and anchorman on national RAI television, who was falsely accused of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking. He became an icon of injustice and a reminder of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice of the Italian judiciary system.
The name of the program was ispired by the famous Portobello Road, a street in the Notting Hill district of London famous for its market, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques.
The program was based on the idea of a market where the participants could sell or try to find objects, ideas or other things and the public at home could call them during the live broadcast.
Official guest was a parrot that had the same name of the program, and one of the part of the program was to let one of the guests try to make the parrot say his own name “Portobello”. The only time it succeded was in 1982 thanks to the actress Paola Borboni that wanted the money offered as a prize to help a child burned on the face.
link: Rai Educational "La storia siamo noi"
The name of the program was ispired by the famous Portobello Road, a street in the Notting Hill district of London famous for its market, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques.
The program was based on the idea of a market where the participants could sell or try to find objects, ideas or other things and the public at home could call them during the live broadcast.
Official guest was a parrot that had the same name of the program, and one of the part of the program was to let one of the guests try to make the parrot say his own name “Portobello”. The only time it succeded was in 1982 thanks to the actress Paola Borboni that wanted the money offered as a prize to help a child burned on the face.
link: Rai Educational "La storia siamo noi"
Portobello theme song.
Portobello theme song.
The parrot Portobello finally said his own name (1982).
Enzo Tortora and Portobello the parrot.
Portobello the parrot.
Enzo Tortora and Portobello the parrot.
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