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  • Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 at the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 Victoria Albert Museum

    Wedding dress, Gladman Womack (London), 1885. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.As I’ve said before, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with... Read more

    The 10 December 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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  • Secrets of the Vivien Leigh Archive

    Secrets Vivien Leigh Archive

    Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh watching rushes for Powell and Pressburger’s The 49th Parallel It was pouring down rain when I arrived at the Victoria and... Read more

    The 06 December 2013 by   Kendrajbean
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  • Madame Récamier

    Madame Récamier

    , Gérard, 1805. Photo: Melanie Clegg/Musée Carnavalet.The gorgeous brunette Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, better known as Juliette, Madame Récamier,... Read more

    The 04 December 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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  • Screaming Fury: Vajont Dam Disaster

    Screaming Fury: Vajont Disaster

    October 2013 saw the 50th anniversary of the Vajont Dam Disaster, an event that seems to have been overlooked by the anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination... Read more

    The 12 December 2013 by   J. G. Burdette
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  • Advent Calendar – Day Eight

    Advent Calendar Eight

    Evening dress, R.H White and Co (Boston), American, 1885. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.Behind the eighth window of my rather... Read more

    The 08 December 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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  • The Charterhouse

    Charterhouse

    The Master's Cloister, looking into the Tudor Great HallAmong London myths, 'built on a plague pit' is perennially popular. The Charterhouse has a better claim... Read more

    The 01 December 2013 by   Carolineld
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  • Linus Pauling Receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    Linus Pauling Receives Nobel Peace Prize

    The Pauling family anticipating Linus Pauling’s Nobel lecture, December 11, 1963. (Photo credit: Aftenposten)On December 10th, 1963, Linus Pauling accepted the... Read more

    The 10 December 2013 by   Scarc
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  • Robert Lowie’s “Primitive Religion”

    Robert Lowie’s “Primitive Religion”

    Note: This is another post in a continuing series on evolutionary theories of religion. The previous post in this series is “Durkheim’s Elementary Forms. Read more

    The 14 December 2013 by   Cris
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  • Oslo Bound

    Oslo Bound

    Celebrating with friends, December 1963.While letters congratulating Linus Pauling for winning the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize continued to pour into his office earl... Read more

    The 04 December 2013 by   Scarc
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  • Looking Forward to 2014

    Looking Forward 2014

    Christ Church, Spitalfields. Photo: Melanie Clegg.Following on from yesterday’s highlights of 2013, I thought it’d be fun or interesting or whatever to have a... Read more

    The 31 December 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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