The Giant Thorney Bamboo. Nothing can exceed in beauty the graceful bamboo, as its feathery foliage waves and flutters in the breeze.
The Bamboo Cane, its origin and traditional use.
Tag: Cultural history
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.
Dancing in ancient Greece. Cubistic, spheristic and stage dances.
The Greek dance usually took the form of those slow measured movements which Simonides described as “silent poetry”.
The Owlers of Romney Marsh, and the ancient export smuggling of wool.
The Owlers sold wool out of England and secretly shipped it at night from the shores of Kent and Sussex.
The Lamont Harp or Clàrsach Lumanach.
Highland Harp known as the the Lamont Harp or Clàrsach Lumanach.
The Town-Hall of Cologne on the Rhine, Germany 19th c..
Germany Romanticism. Cologne and the legend of the fight with the lion of the mayor Hermann Gryn.
The Tuscan Stradivari. A short account of a Violin.
The “Tuscan.” A short account of a Violin by Stradivari. Made for Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Dated 1690.
Portrait of MME or a Lady 4 from the painting by Giovanni Boldini.
Belle Époque. Portrait of a Lady by Giovanni Boldini at l’Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889.
Hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent. Elizabethan England.
Reception hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent at the time of Elisabeth 1573. English Renaissance. Tudor period.
The Illuminati and their era. Imitations of Illuminism. Freemasonry.
The Illuminati and the Freemasons. Freemasonry and the French Revolution. The Order of Perfectibilists.