The 17th-century, red-brick English stately home of Blickling Hall, built to withstand months of rain and cold, is isolated by a surrounding moat and acres of pristine gardens and woodland. Over the ...
According to noted ornithologists, there is only one species of ducks that resembles the rubber variety parodied on a Carnival float. That float, entitled “Mama Duck and Duckies,” is spotted ...
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...
In this interview, author Virginia Feito discusses the process of writing her new horror literary novel, Victorian Psycho.
Death and Gladstone go together like love and marriage. Only sin had a stronger effect on his mind. As with most things Gladstonian, ironies break in, as when he, a rich beneficiary of West Indies ...
The Public and Private Life of Animals (1877) by J. Thomas is a satirical book about animal life from the 19th century. My favorite thing about this book are the incredible illustrations. I can't get ...
1 Zervas built the room around the yellow velvet sofa from Room & Board that pops against the walls, painted in Benjamin ...
His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings.