“If Alexander were a woman, I would make him my mistress.”
So it was a bad pun. . . My brain is on the fritz from work. As a result, of fritzy brain and short attention span, I stumbled upon some Victorian memes! Some are more kosher than others, but alas …
John Quincy Adams was a famed abolitionist, but his strong aversion to racial mixing came out in his reaction to ‘Othello’
Stunningly beautiful, Austrian Empress Sisi was a legendary beauty who left behind a heritage of skincare and haircare that is indispensable even today.
The Haunted Chamber poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
19th-century illustration, "Thus Didst Thou to the Vase at Soissons," drawn by A. de Neuville. In this scene, sixth-century-A.D Merovingian king Clovis I kills a Frankish king, part of Clovis' effort to unify Germanic tribes through conquest.
Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.
The Paris Morgue: A Gruesome Tourist Attraction in the 19th Century
This animation shows the population density of U.S. counties between 1790 and 2010, showing the westward expansion of the country's population.
A list documents the myriad reasons why people were committed to insane asylums in the 19th century.
This fun book, which offered young lovers advice on wise courtship, was one of a series of dime novels printed and sold cheaply in New York City by the...
If you think you take too much time to get ready in the morning, wait till you meet this young woman who dresses to impress in a very unusual way. Mila Povoroznyuk from Ukraine, who is known to her fans as your_sunny_flowers, has ditched all modern fashion trends to follow her own aesthetic that makes her look like she came back from the 19th century.
Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.
Sotheby's presents a perfect opportunity for an aspiring buyer to start a comprehensive and informed collection of the period’s varied artistic genres and movements.
The fearsome Newcastle Gaol, in the city's Carliol Square, closed its gates for the last time this week 90 years ago
Wife selling began in the late 1600s when divorce was an impossibility. The practice continued into the 1700s and 1800s and generated the belief that if a
Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, a Hungarian Roman Catholic Church priest rides his skateboard in front of the local catholic church, a small village nearby the Hungarian-Slovenian border on August 18, 2010....
What's a shared bed between colleagues, anyway?
-By Howard Lyon Valentine Prinsep and Thomas Cooper Gotch are two 19th century painters that created some wonderful works. I was not aware of their body of work until recently. I had seen a few paintings by them both through the years but had not identified the artists. As more of the world's mu
