I’ve been interested in working class dress lately. And more specifically 18th century maids costumes. searching the net I’ve found lots of pics of pretty outfits and great pattern mixi…
Real love quotes and captions for Instagram that speak to the everyday relationship.
“In many cultures, clowns would do things that were considered forbidden.”Over the past 30 years, this general unease has blossomed into full-on clown...
The Rococo period (from about 1730 – 1790) was a time of fashion excess, emanating from France around Europe. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, once the size of the hooped petticoat …
The Blemmyes are an example of various species of bizarre creatures rumored, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world. The Blemmyes origins began as a tribe inhabiting the lower parts of Nubia, but later became fictionalized as a race of creatures believed to be acephalous (headless) monsters who had eyes and mouths on their chest.
“If Alexander were a woman, I would make him my mistress.”
Let's have some fun with Morse Code by creating phrases using this special code. And see what they did with Morse Code in in Cheaper by the Dozen.
Collective - healthy social ⚡️ …
UPDATE: read about my latest type of socks here Several pictures shows the trossfrau wearing some sort of socks, and I’m currently working on figuring out the two different common style…
Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.
Visit these living history sites if you ever need to escape 2013 for a bit.
Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London's epicentre of erotica and smut.
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US history textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. It’s a mirror of American politics.
enchantedsleeper: Venus and Tannhauser, Laurence Koe
Dear Laurel, Would you consider a blog article on bathroom storage for the small bathroom – where there is not room for a beautiful antique armoire for storage – but simply – double gasp – over the toilet storage? Can that ever look elegant? Thank you for considering, Anne You mean like this? […]
A child of metallurgy and the traditional crafts, alchemy cannot be easily separated from the concrete aspect of existence any more than it can be separated from the transcendent. Indeed, both...
1. The urine of ginger boys was prized in medieval Europe for making stained glass.
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Illustrations of cooking, and eating, from a 13th-century illuminated manuscript.
This is it people. I found the 8th wonder of the world. Who doesn’t want to be sippin’ on a FLAVORFUL and SPICY brothy-coconuty-noodley-chicken soup on a crisp fall day? I canR…
The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth from the 11th century that documents the events of the Norman conquest of Engl
Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.
Lots of photos of our Waldorf sixth grade mineralogy main lesson book pages. The Ring of Fire, Abraham Werner, The Rock Cycle and the poem Fire and Ice
A collection of fascinating portraits of real samurai warriors taken in the decades before reforms saw the warrior class abolished give an authentic insight into military life in pre-modern Japan.
Bobotie is a traditional South African Dish. It's origin is unknown, although we know that the word originates from the Indonesian word bobotok of which a recipe appears in a 1609 Dutch recipe book. Initially the Cape Malay introduced it in South Africa.
Jaw-Dropping Christian Ephemera From The 20th Century
Whether she was a funerary holder, a depiction of a goddess, or an Iberian princess, the Lady of Elche's origin can never be known for sure. Nevertheless,
