11 hours ago by la femme invisible

So that one-woman show I saw last Tuesday sadly didn’t do much for me, and did nothing for Nancy since she was fresh off of seeing Jude Law in Hamlet (a Broadway double-header, impressive). However, there was a glimmer of hope in the program. In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy set in ...

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18 hours ago by Steve Wiggins

Once again the headlines tell the story of a child molested by a “celibate” priest now suing the church as an adult. That money dropped in the collection plate goes to cover the cost of sin. The disclosures continue to find the light of day not only in the Catholic Church, but across the religious o ...

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1 day ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

In a previous post , J.R.’s Discontinued China (on Antique Row in Victoria, BC) advised that you should NEVER break up a set of China. But what are rules for if not to be broken? J.R.’s also advised that if you were trying to sell a set, you could expect to receive no more than 25% of the cost of re ...

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2 days ago by Papa Llama

Previous Posts: Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 1: Why Do Webcomics? Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 2: Why Do Zuda? Here we conclude our interview with Zuda Comics webcomic competition winner Dwight L. MacPherson, author and creator of the series Si ...

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2 days ago by AspiringArtists

The ecstasy, passion and turmoil of love- love in all its consuming forms- have been parsed and dissected over the millennia, but the essence continues to elude. Philosophers and poets have struggled to understand this most primal of human emotions, only to come up short. Plato compared love to the ...

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4 days ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

I wondered why there was so much information on Victorian Christmas traditions and very little on earlier traditions. The resources I found are listed below, and are definitely worth reading. Society in the 18th Century had no significant middle class. The upper classes celebrated Christmas, and the ...

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6 days ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

We wouldn’t leave you hanging by just telling you to get a real tree and then not tell you how to decorate it! One of the most popular eras for decoration was the Victorian – and many Victorian items still exist today. Victorian Christmas decoration was characterised by: Lots of greenery. A “holly c ...

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8 days ago by Vic

Another book review so soon on this blog? Well, yes. This book from Shire Publications, Victorian and Edwardian Horse Cabs by Trevor May, is short, just 32 pages long, but it is filled with many facts and rare images of interest to lovers of history. In Jane Austen’s day most people walked to work, ...

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10 days ago by vtpanther

Berkeley Square Berkley Square is a period piece that focuses on the servant staff of the Victorian elite household. I am sure that every attempt was made to keep upstairs and downstairs people in completely separate species boxes but really, how likely was it that you were going to bring people int ...

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11 days ago by Valentin Mandache

Aristocratic coat of arms placed within a Renaissance inspired panoply on the roof above the doorway of an old merchant house, dated sometime in the first half of c19th, Regina Maria area, Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache) The modern nation building process in the Romanian lands started in the first ha ...

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