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4 days ago · Amanda Vickery's new book is largely based on several rich collections of women's letters and diaries, most notably those of Elizabeth Parker Shackleton, whose family belonged to the lesser gentry and mercantile elite of Lancashire in the eighteenth century. These women's voices -- in turns passionate, pious, sentimental and sardonic, resentful ...
1 day ago · Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of ...
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3 days ago · Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [1] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime ...
2 days ago · Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions ...
5 days ago · Doon the Pictures: 8 old photographs of Glasgow Film Theatre as the Rose Street cinema celebrates 85 years. The Glasgow Film Theatre turns 50 this year - that's why today we wanted to look back at old pictures of Glasgow's most loved cinema. The pictures - one of the great Glaswegians pass times ever since they figured out how to make film move ...
2 days ago · The temple is lit by the arched windows of the east and south. The entrance to the St. George's Church of Svipi is from the west side. It is rectangular from the outside and arched from the inside. The wooden door, that will draw visitors’ attention, is one of the great monuments of Georgian wood carving. There is an old inscription of the ...
4 days ago · 4. Tackle stucco repairs with great care. Many Georgian houses feature stucco – a type of lime-based render – at least to the façade, which was commonly painted white. That said, brick was also widely used, sometimes for the entire house, other times just on the upper storeys.
