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From Princess Diana to Princess Grace to Marie Antoinette, certain royals have influenced fashion for the ages.
Once a favorite flower of nobility and fashionable society, by the mid-20th century the once-flourishing pansy had been ...
Both publications are quoted in the book “Pittsylvania’s Nineteenth Century Grist Mills” by late county historian Herman Melton (1991). The origin of the name Galveston, according to local legend, ...
John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces of decorative clothing, as well as photographs and paintings, and books on ...
Rocket Taco’s run in the Pelican Bay Artists’ Building in the 600 block of 19th Ave E will now give way to Condesa and Pitch the Baby. We’ll learn more about the coming projects soon including, we’re ...
Now, to the more pressing question: how did this fairly new spot land such a timeless name? Apparently the building itself is a century old — 2 storeys tall, not counting the charming al fresco area ...
Around the turn of the 20th century, about 20 black doctors resided in the city. Most of them maintained practices primarily in the South End and Roxbury. Some earned their medical degrees from ...
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The presentation, titled ‘Women and Style in the 19th to early 20th century Malta’, will be delivered by fashion historian Caroline Tonna.
He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and William McKinley. Both championed what many consider outdated policies that Trump is now trying to ...
In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military ...