The history of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, one of the most ancient edifices in Paris.
The cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
Tag: Cultural history
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.
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.
Marie-Antoinette as Dauphine and as Queen of France.
Marie-Antoinette as an example of elegance and extravagance.Rococo the period of the gallantry.