The emerald was a hot favorite among the elites of the Victorian Era and was always used in making the traditional jewelry of the Victorian ladies. Mined in countries like Afghanistan, Brazil, Zambia, and Colombia, these gemstones are not easily available in the markets because they rarely occu...
A case for the physical, as well as the symbolic influence of the Sun on the affairs of human beings has been made by natural astrologers such as Percy Seymour. It is well known by scientists that the Earth’s magnetic field is affected by the Sun’s magnetic activity (sunspots and solar...
Victorian English society would have been shocked. Plato distrusted commerce, detested democracy, and also came to believe that teaching philosophy to just anyone was dangerous. A tradition of ethical argument arose that questioned whether engaging in trade was even moral, since merchants did not ...
to such things as the Garrotter’s Act of 1863, which remained on the statute books in England and Wales for almost a century, and was a legal response to the sudden appearance of foreign stranglers who, albeit briefly, gripped the imagination though not the throats, of Victorian Londoners...