Becket’s renown, meanwhile, quickly grew in the aftermath of his death and miracles soon began to be attributed to him. And then, little over two years after he was killed, the Pope declared him a saint. It’s believed that soon after that, in 1173, St Thomas’ Hospital in Southwark-...
One of the earliest brick structures in Texas, Ashton Villa was built by hardware magnate James Moreau Brown in 1859. Christened Ashton Villa by his wife, Rebecca Ashton Brown, the Victorian Italianate mansion survived the infamous Galveston Hurricane of 1900 with minimal damage. By 1968, the ...
The imprimatur of cool for automakers is to get your hot car a product placement in a James Bond movie. And BMW succeeded in getting its futuristicBMW Z8 in the film “The World is Not Enough.” And while you couldn’t get the surface-to-air missiles that came with 007’s vehicle, ...