Arthur has led the list of possible names for the young British princes, chosen as a middle name for Prince Louis, son of William and Catherine, Prince and Princess of Wales. Arthur Continued Oscar Origin: English or Irish Meaning: "God spear, or deer-lover or champion warrior" ...
•An exhibition has opened featuring works of art acquired by the British Museum over the past two decades including works by David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Yinka Shonibare and Cornelia Parker.Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parkerfeatures around 100 works acquired since...
So then I realized,Oh gosh, OK, I want to know more about these people. So that's how my journey for the last eight or nine years began. And then I just went down lots of rabbit holes, wanting to find out as much as I could about everyone. Advertisement: "...
captures visitors and residents alike. Yet, beneath its glamorous façade lies a lesser-known aspect of its history—the Zone. The wide boulevards that run in circles were once moats and defensive ditches surrounding the walls. Names such as Porte de Clichy or Porte Saint-Denis, now mere met...
As of VicmapR version0.1.0data is read in using a lazy evaluation method with the convenience of pipe operators (%>%). A lot of the methods and code have already been written for a similar package (bcdata) that downloads data from the British Columbia WFS catalogues. Using a similar ...
A major extension to Grantham Hospital was built in the mid-1930s to designs by the local architect F. J. Lenton, of Traylen & Lenton. The plans were approved by the British Hospitals Association, the Ministry of Health and the County Council. It was partly as a result of Kesteven Count...
The 1860s were the peak of British music hall tradition and gave rise to the lion comique - such song and 'patter' performers as George Leybourne ('Champagne Charlie'), Alfred Vance - billed as 'The Great Vance', and G. H. MacDermott were hugely popular, and Concanen captured both ...
Today’s British Royals still embrace Victorian plaids… .. as seen in a (left) 2013 photo of Princess Charlene and one (right) of Prince Harry’s new wife from America, Meghan Markle in 2018. A few of the plaids were delicate… … and always had the fashionable silhouettes of the er...
British sculptor William Silver Frith (1850–1924) made the ornamental lamppost sculptures of cherubs holding early telephones at the portico front entrance. The communicative angels celebrate the fact that Two Temple Place was one of the first houses in the capital to have a working telephone. ...
Echoes From the Age of Steam, an exhibition of Victorian-era British art being held at the galleries of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily] Charles Dickens opensA Tale of Two Citieswith the luminary lines, "It was the best of times; it ...