Milton County conveyed the Alpharetta Cemetery Lot, now four acres, to Members of the Town Council and their successors. The lot was to be used as a general burial ground under the supervision of the Town of Alpharetta. This is the final...
The construction of the majority of tower houses is thought to have commenced in the early 15th century AD and lasted until the mid-seventeenth century. After 1580 many lords built fortified houses and stronghouses although tower houses continued to be built until the guns of the Cromwellians ...
Stardew Valley was originally released on 26 February 2016 for Windows PC. It was ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in mid-December 2016, Switch on 05 October 2017, and PS Vita on 22 May 2018 (US) and 24 May 2018 (Europe).
Back in the mid-1800s, the original Barlow Trail was a rugged but vital route for settlers completing the Oregon Trail. As pioneers descended from Mount Hood, they followed the north side of the Zigzag River to its meeting point with the Sandy River. At the big bend of the Sandy, they...
more a part of people’s homes and lives, a whole industry sprung up supplying equipment and accessories that the discerning homemaker could purchase for the fireplaces that were likely to have dotted the average home during the period from the 1600s up to the majority of the 20th century. ...
accomplishments would become part of history. The expanding studies of women’s history during the mid-to-late 20th century highlighted Irwin in such works as Madeleine B. Stern’sWe the Women, Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America(1963) and Susan Torre’sWomen in American Architecture(...
Downton Abbey has singlehandedly been attributed to a rise in interest in things like classic formal attire, household servants, early 20th century history – and that most high-class of all high-class things: owning a grand country estate and a huge manor house which is centuries old! Indeed...
2019). The expansion of Erica woodlands or maquis under very warm and dry conditions in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt at the transition from the Early to the Mid Holocene may have resulted from extreme drought and high fire incidence (Beffa et al. 2016). Assessing the causes of ...
of a “hole in the wall” was redeemed from the ash pit of history by a 1970s resort where everything in sight was designed to appeal to men. At the resort’s café named The Hole in the Wall there was sawdust on the floor, tintypes on the wall, fires in the fireplaces, beer ...
In today’s world of polyester, acrylic and spandex, traditional textiles and fibres can be increasingly difficult to find when it comes to buying quality clothing. What are the origins of the fibres used to create the textiles which our parents and grandparents grew up with, in the days befo...