There’s some question if the society known as a “tea party” even existed in the 1770s. The British practice of high tea didn’t take hold until the Victorian Era in the mid-19th century, and Lewis Carroll’sAlice in Wonderland, with its famous “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,” wasn’...
human evolution, the process by whichhuman beingsdeveloped onEarthfrom now-extinctprimates. Viewed zoologically, we humans areHomo sapiens, aculture-bearing upright-walkingspeciesthat lives on the ground and very likely first evolved inAfricaabout 315,000 years ago. We are now the only living memb...
“the Negro” apart from the whitestereotypesthat had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free ofVictorianmoralvalues and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by whites, reinforce racist beliefs. Never ...
she had been soliciting when she was murdered); and that the only verifiable prostitute among the five was Kelly. In Rubenhold’s view, the notion that Jack the Ripper was a murderer of prostitutes was a consequence of the misogynistic and class-basedprejudicescharacteristic of theVictorian era...
But Shaw truly began to make his mark when he was recruited by Frank Harris to the Saturday Review as theatre critic (1895–98); in that position he used all his wit and polemical powers in a campaign to displace the artificialities and hypocrisies of the Victorian stage with a theatre ...
that some areas might have to be abandoned altogether because the quake had rendered the land dangerously unstable. Among the structuresslatedfor demolition was the city’s venerable Victorian-era Anglican cathedral. Up to 50,000 residents moved permanently to other locations in New Zealand or to...
Since it is impossible to imagine a time when children did not spontaneously run races or wrestle, it is clear that children have always included sports in their play, but one can only speculate about the emergence of sports as autotelic physical contests for adults. Hunters are depicted in ...
Whereas orphans once made up the majority of children living in institutional homes, the number of children who lose both parents through death has been greatly reduced by medical advances. Institutional andfoster care are now provided mainly to children whose home lives have been disrupted, permanen...
During the Victorian period, the House of Commons became the centre of government, the House of Lords lost power (though it remained influential until the Parliament Act of 1911), and the monarchy transformed into a symbol of the nation. The House of Commons consisted of about 600 men called...
premiered on ABC in January 1966 to instant acclaim. The show satisfied a widedemographicspread—children, mesmerized by its action; teens, especially girls, for the fashions and heartthrob Burt Ward as Robin the Boy Wonder; and adults, in tune with the camp humor and double entendres. The...