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04
Jan
2012
Our Glorious Phone Progress

37 days ago by admin

You may possibly be annoyed with men and women playing with their phones all the time, but that’s just jealousy. If you’d improved as a lot as phones in the last decade we wouldn’t just be hypnotized by your brilliance, we’d be legally obliged to worship you as Emperor of Every thing. Phone technolo ...

27
Dec
2011
Alexis de Tocqueville On Tyranny

44 days ago by Samuel

From the writings of French historian Alexis de Tocqueville: “[Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual c ...

26
Dec
2011
Patek Philippe, well-known vie…

46 days ago by admin

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Patek Philippe, well-known view vendor, was launched in Geneva in 1839 by Antoine Norbert de Patek and Franois Czapek. In 1844, the firm developed its initially look at boasting keyless twisting and palms environment. Right until 1845, just about every watch made by this company was finalized InPate ...

23
Dec
2011
Snap Up Your Specific Weathervane

48 days ago by admin

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Article by Samsony Peruson Composed of a couple of halves connected with destroyed truck driver soldered collectively, weathervanes get appreciation of the top of your property or setting up. Those office assistant not to mention steel figures employ a longer background, on the other hand. Though im ...

13
Dec
2011
Beyond Retro: Dracula’s Guest

58 days ago by Victorian Vamp

For this month’s column, I had to tell you about an excellent collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories. Several months ago, I picked up Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. The title is a bit limited, because this volume begins with stories that come befo ...

10
Dec
2011
Understand How to Sing Blues Songs

61 days ago by Boomer Blues

Post by Sarah J. Walthers There are a lot of music genre, one of them is the blues songs. Blues is a genre of music which was developed in earlier nineteenth century, but in recent years it came down to be related with negative issues like drugs and alcohol. It has been a notion that [...]

Victorian Network: Theatricality and Performance

62 days ago by clamorousvoice

Vol 3, Issue 2 of Victorian Network is now live and available for download here. This edition, entitled Theatricality and Performance in Victorian Literature and Culture is guest-edited by Dr. Beth Palmer of the University of Surrey. Areas of inquiry range from Dracula to clowning; from palm trees t ...

07
Dec
2011
1895: London

65 days ago by lostspook

Title: Be Yourself Author: annariel Rating: All ages Word Count: 3342 Characters: Eighth Doctor, Oscar Wilde Setting / Era: Opening night of the Importance of Being Earnest (14th Feb 1895, St James’s Theatre, London). The amnesiac Doctor runs into Oscar Wilde, who helps him to recover some things ab ...

Aside from the point that it c…

65 days ago by admin

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06
Dec
2011
Cartography Happens: Mapping “True Womanhood”

66 days ago by Glimpse Journal

With the current issue of GLIMPSE, we bring you a highlight of the American Antiquarian Society’s online exhibition, “Beauty, Virtue & Vice: Images of Women in Nineteenth-Century American Prints.” The exhibit’s curator reflects on the work, saying that, “although prints are often works of imaginatio ...

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