Sausalito boasts charming buildings that date from the Victorian era, when the town was first settled.
The dawn of the Victorian era saw no let-up in the search for a cure.
The Crescent Arts Centre was built in the Victorian era, and originally used as a girls' school.
Now this was tremendous entrepreneurship, which in the Victorian era caused the rise of Varanasi or Benares silk.
Old prisons, dating from the Victorian era, often with staff attitudes to match, are peculiarly resistant to reform.
There are more than 100 cards to choose from, all in vintage style from the Victorian era to post-war America.
The industrialization during the Victorian era also meant the streets of London were paved and broadened to make way for machinery and traffic.
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It remained banned in the UK until 1961, although it could be legally obtained in places such as New Zealand throughout the Victorian era.
Consider one of the most well regarded writers of the Victorian era, Mary Ann Evans, better known to us by her pen name, George Eliot.
His father had aunts who were born in the late Victorian era, and regular tea with his great-aunt Isie provided firsthand access to a bygone existence.
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Thus Chelsea was the trendiest part of town in the Victorian era, boasting painters such as James Whistler and writers such as Oscar Wilde amongst its residents.
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
But by the Victorian era, the benefits of trade and a sense of the common good were taking hold so strongly that the importance of the safety of the sea became paramount.
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Mr Hamilton, who takes a special interest in tracing the connections between the artistic and scientific communities of the Victorian era, considers Faraday's scientific achievements alongside his artistic leanings and strong religious beliefs.
One difference: In the Victorian era, Pepper's Ghost was normally used to reflect actual, physical objects or actors, making them appear "dimensional" in ways that the projected or computer-generated imagery typically used today do not.
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"Consider the consequences of continuing to subject young people to an education system rooted in the Victorian era as a preparation for a post-school period of study and work in a digital age, " she said.
In what he calls an organic process, Smith and Colantonio took their experiences from previous games they worked on and decided to focus on an environment based around historical London in the 1800s during the Victorian era.
He said the UK needed to bring art and science back together, as it had in the "glory days of the Victorian era" when Lewis Carroll wrote one of the classic fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, and was also a mathematics tutor at Oxford.
The government had embarked on "one of the biggest investment programmes in our railways since the Victorian era", he said, during which it was "also vital that the industry looks to how it can provide better value for money for both taxpayers and farepayers while delivering the safe, competitive railway that passengers expect".
Most were built over as the city expanded, disappearing below pavement or merging with the new Victorian-era sewage system.
Exit the common at Charles Street and cross to the Public Garden, which is Boston's beautiful Victorian-era botanical oasis.
One example is the Victorian-era pocket watch that once belonged to John Lennon , coming up in a July 25 Christie's sale.
Of course, modern sartorial trends aren't nearly as punishing as Chinese foot binding or Victorian-era corsets, which could crush women's ribs and displace internal organs.
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The InterContinental London Westminster opens 30 November near New Scotland Yard and the Department of Justice with 256 rooms and suites in a Victorian-era former government building.
Obama and Hu greeted the CEOs in a room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (the mammoth building next to the White House that looks like a Victorian-era hotel) and made a few remarks before leaving for their presser.
Letters by the relatives of a Victorian child who died suddenly show the people of the era were "not as stern as is often thought", an archivist has said.
The era was indeed marked by an unbuttoning of Victorian sexual mores, by the activities of some brave if marginal feminists (such as the British campaigners for women's suffrage), by increasing female employment and by a decline in the importance of male muscular strength.
Instead of the British monarch who gave her name to the Victorian century, Mr Gay suggests a more representative embodiment of the era: Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright (pictured above).
In keeping with the era's revivalist predilections, the limestone facade incorporates Gothic spires and gargoyles, Romanesque arches, a Victorian conservatory and a freestanding Renaissance stairway.
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