BRAMSHILL HOUSE is one of the most perfect of the remaining mansions of the time of James the First.
Bramshill House. Hampshire, United Kingdom.
Tag: Cultural history
James Wolfe and the capture of Quebec City.
James Wolfe (1727-1759) was a British general, significant for his role in Britain’s conquest of Canada.
The Jains. Benares, the sacred city in India.
Jainism is the only one of the early Indian monastic orders which has handed down almost intact its tenets and organisation to the present day.
The Order of the Garter. The most exclusive British order
The Order of the Garter is the most exclusive British order and one of the most prestigious in Europe.
Mesopotamia. The Sumerian Chale. Sumer & Accad.
Restitution of the Sumerian garment in real life, based on a seated statue of Gudea, known as the “Architect with a ruler”.
The Hagia Sophia of Trebizond, Turkey. Byzantine Architecture.
The Hagia Sophia, former Byzantine monastic church in Trabzon. Byzantine Art, History and Architecture.
The cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
The history of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, one of the most ancient edifices in Paris.
A magic hand used as an amulet for averting the evil eye.
The Roman magic hand itself was considered a potent means of averting the evil eye.
The Bamboo Cane, its origin and traditional use.
The Giant Thorney Bamboo. Nothing can exceed in beauty the graceful bamboo, as its feathery foliage waves and flutters in the breeze.
A new vegetable variety in 1865. The rat-tail radish in England.
Rat-tail or snake radish, the edible part of the plant is the seed vessel and not the root.