These include psychometry ( establishing the history of an object ), slate writing ( common in Victorian times ), extras appearing in photographs ( seemingly no more ; possibly since the advent of compound camera lenses using plastic as well as quartz-glass ) and a long list of other curiosities.

In Victorian times the epigram couplet was often used by the prolific American poet Emily Dickinson.

Father Christmas is said to wear ( these days ) a bright red suit, but in Victorian and Tudor times he wore a bright green suit.

In Victorian times and later the town has spread westwards and northwards, and now forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west.

" The origins of Hangman are obscure, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times ," says Tony Augarde, author of " The Oxford Guide to Word Games " ( Oxford University Press ).

Guilds in the Middle Ages served a similar purpose, as did friendly societies during Victorian times.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

While modern identification of mushrooms is quickly becoming molecular, the standard methods for identification are still used by most and have developed into a fine art harking back to medieval times and the Victorian era, combined with microscopic examination.

The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a " Professor " or " Punchman ," and assisted sometimes by a " Bottler ", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money (" the bottle ").

In Victorian times the drum and pan pipes were the instruments of choice.

It was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times and improved over the next half century as a local shopping place for its neighbourhood and the affluent area to the north.

The term publican ( in historical Roman usage a public contractor or tax farmer ) has come into use since Victorian times to designate the pub landlord.

Pubs near London's Smithfield market, Billingsgate fish market and Covent Garden fruit and flower market could stay open 24 hours a day since Victorian times to provide a service to the shift working employees of the markets.

In Victorian times earnestness was considered to be the over-riding societal value, originating in religious attempts to reform the lower classes, it spread to the upper ones too throughout the century.

In Victorian times people often booked formal funeral photographers when they could afford it.

In Victorian times in England it became popular for museums to be open on a Sunday afternoon ( the only such facility allowed to do so ) to enable the opportunity for " self-improvement " of the other-working-classes.

Originally a form of vermin control to protect livestock, fox hunting became a popular social activity for newly wealthy upper classes in Victorian times, and a traditional rural activity for riders and foot followers alike.

They often transport viewers to other worlds or eras: ancient times, biblical times, the Middle Ages, the Victorian era, or turn-of-the-century America.

Tourism in Bermuda first developed in Victorian times, catering to a wealthy elite seeking to escape North American winters.

It survived a demolition attempt for a road-widening scheme in Victorian times.

A " handkerchief " or " hanky " primarily refers to a napkin made of cloth, used to dab away perspiration, clear the nostrils, or, in Victorian times, as a means of flirtation.

In Victorian times this area was known as ' Ketts Meadow '.

In late Victorian times the subject matter of the play was deemed controversial, and there was an outcry when Adelaide Neilson appeared as Isabella in the 1870s.

Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

On that Mississippi riverine system today, including that of other sheltered waterways, industrial barge trafficking in bulk raw materials such as coal, coke, timber, iron ore and other minerals is extremely common in the developed world using huge cargo barges that connect in groups and trains-of-barges in ways which allow cargo volumes and weights which would astonish pioneers of modern barge systems and methods in the Victorian era.

At the end of the 1896 season Essendon along with seven other clubs formed the Victorian Football League.

Although Silsbee adhered mainly to Victorian and revivalist architecture, Wright found his work to be more " gracefully picturesque " than the other " brutalities " of the period.

A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants.

Styles are often borrowed from the Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and often express pagan, occult or other religious imagery such as pentacles or medieval crosses.

A few were martyred, including the former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other wealthy merchants, who were killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.

The restlessness of the Victorian period ’ s issues of working class radicalism, labor, war, economy, and other national themes were the targets of Punch, which in turn commanded the nature of Tenniel ’ s subjects.

Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location.

" Invert " described the opposite gender roles and the related attraction to women instead of men ; since women in the Victorian period were considered unable to initiate sexual encounters, women who did so with other women were thought of as possessing masculine sexual desires.

Later Victorian booths, particularly those used for Christmas parties and other indoor performances, were gaudier affairs.

The erection of two discount hotel chain box buildings, at the southern end of Armada Way and the other at the Sound end of Leigham Street, contrast with their Victorian surroundings.

His attitude towards the Commonwealth and the Federal was shaped by his first premiers ’ conference in 1965 when Prime Minister Menzies negotiated with the Victorian premier Henry Bolte to achieve an extra grant of funds for Victoria at the expense of the other states and closed the conference before the other Premiers could object.

Victorian England was divided on Richard: " Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament ; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him " a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man ".

The Old West End is a historic neighborhood of Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and other Edwardian style houses recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.

A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants.

However, the fact that Melbourne is significantly closer than Sydney and the fact that Victorian television broadcasts in the region, resulting ( among other things ) in the predominance of Australian rules football in the local media outlets, gives Albury close cultural and psychological links to Victoria, despite its location in southern New South Wales.

Leighton House, built for the artist Lord Leighton, has a conventional facade but elaborate Arab-style interiors, including original Islamic tiles and other elements as well as Victorian Orientalizing work.

In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels.

Its scale and grandeur far exceeded the other world fairs, and it became a symbol of the emerging American Exceptionalism, much in the same way that the Great Exhibition became a symbol of the Victorian era United Kingdom.

Clarke's first whistle, the Meg, was pitched in high A and was later made in other keys suitable for Victorian parlour music.

The later years of high school are known as the Higher School Certificate ( HSC ) in New South Wales for Year 12, Victorian Certificate of Education ( VCE ) in Victoria for Years 11 and 12 and similar names in other states.