The city’s influence extended far beyond the confines of fashion houses and department stores. World’s fairs and international exhibitions, hosted multiple times in Paris throughout the century, became grand stages for showcasing French fashion and textiles to an awestruck global audience. These ev...
a新娘服饰的习俗可追溯到维多利亚时代 (Victorian Times),结婚时新娘穿的服饰与“某种旧的、新的、借来的和白色的东西”有关。因为旧的东西与新娘家族和她以往生活有联系。新的东西代表新娘未来的幸福新生活中能有好运和成功。结婚时穿戴借的东西能给婚姻带来好运,这可以是一件婚礼服、一块手帕、一件首饰。白色的...
In a few places on this list, I have enumerated certain first and middle names together, (such as Sarah Ann,) because I find them joined thus so many times on old public records, that it is apparent those name-pairings enjoyed great popularity. Where common nicknames were often used, thos...
recitalist of the day. He was splendidly endowed with many skills. “Even irrespective of his literary genius,” wrote an obituarist, “he was an able and strong-minded man, who would have succeeded in almost any profession to which he devoted himself ” (Times, June 10, 1870). Few ...
The ports of Exeter, Plymouth, Barnstaple, and Dartmouth thrived from medieval times on the export of tin and cloth (a staple industry) until these both declined in the 19th century, causing rural depopulation that was alleviated only by the rise of tourism, which rapidly increased during the...
[35]The London Times. Friday 1stJune 1923. Times Archive Online John Albert Cooling 1859-1931 The Cooling Galleries John Cooling 1832-1905 On 13thMarch 1853, John Cooling married Elizabeth Hayes at Saint Anne, Soho, Westminster[1]. When their first child, Elizabeth Caroline was baptised on 25...
The intersection of North and South within the confines of a small occupied town creates a rich world that is chaotic, conflicted, corrupt, dynamic and even hopeful — a cauldron within which these characters strive, fight, love, laugh, betray, sacrifice and, at times, act like scoundrels. ...
SEAN: I would argue that a lightness persists in Strange, even in the dark times. If anything, it’s been nice to have more of the serious stuff to do to counterbalance that. DAMIAN: Although, wasn’t it amusing to see poor Strange not knowing where to put his face during the scene...
Residence abroad might suit the robust76, many-sided genius of Robert Browning with his gift for interpreting the thoughts of other nations and other times; it would have been fatal to Tennyson, whose affections were rooted in his native soil, and who had a special call to speak to ...
George Geoffrey Dawson(born October 25, 1874, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England—died November 7, 1944, London) was an English journalist, editor ofThe Timesfrom 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his retirement in 1941. He changed hissurnamefrom Robinson to Dawson following an inheritance ...