For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.

Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

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.

Potter ’ s work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology is highlighted in several chapters in Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, 2007 ; Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

This is usually taken to be a comment on the way that Victorian England proclaimed the Christian values of forgiveness, charity and poverty on a Sunday, only to ignore them for the rest of the week and the practical running of its life.

He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the " golden age " of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation .".

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy ( i. e. Steampunk ).

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

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

What remains is in any case very different from the full-blooded matter and the forbidding materialism of the Victorian scientist.

Bead embroidery, a popular type of handwork during the Victorian era, is enjoying a renaissance in modern jewellery making.

A typical Victorian koala ( formerly P. cinereus victor ) has longer, thicker fur ; is a darker, softer grey, often with chocolate-brown highlights on the back and forearms ; and has a more prominently light-coloured ventral side and fluffy white ear tufts.

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 ?).

This stabilizing synthesis of the Realist political and Romantic aesthetic ideology, was called by various names: in Great Britain it is the Victorian era.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).

Though the structures found in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro were walled, it is far from clear that these structures were defensive against enemy attacks.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, formerly walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside, as still may be seen at Petworth House.

In a Middle Eastern country, where the roof may be used for recreation, it is often walled, and drainage holes must be provided to stop water from pooling and seeping through the porous roofing material.

During this same 10th century and in the first years of the 11th century Viking riders tried to assault it — Galicia is known in the Nordic sagas as Jackobsland or Gallizaland — and bishop Sisenand II, who was killed in battle against them in 968, ordered the construction of a walled fortress to protect the sacred place.

Located on a promontory jutting into the sea, this walled medieval city is very well preserved and is still inhabited today.

The Hebrew word sukkōt is the plural of sukkah, " booth or tabernacle ", which is a walled structure covered with skhakh ( plant material such as leafy tree overgrowth or palm leaves ).

Planck's law very accurately quantitatively describes the power spectral density of electromagnetic radiation, inside a rigid walled cavity in a body made of material that is completely opaque and poorly reflective, when it has reached thermodynamic equilibrium, as a function of absolute thermodynamic temperature alone.

The blast from the bomb is focused by dropping it into a walled plaza, rather than allowing it to spread in all directions ; however damage and injuries still occurred outside this area due to the power of the weapon, causing the use of a second bomb to be called off for fear of further collateral damage.

The Alhambra as a whole is completely walled, bordered to the north by the valley of the Darro, to the south by the al-Sabika, and to the east of the Cuesta del Rey Chico, which in turn is separated from the Albaicín and Generalife, located in the Cerro del Sol.

One obvious difference is that the Zhou ruled from walled cities rather than castles.

The castle, situated in the center of the walled city, is the most significant monument of Milazzo.

Human life is raised to the level of the mythical as the hammerblows of Titans are seemingly heard underground at Le Voreux or in La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret, the walled park of Le Paradou encloses a re-enactment – and restatement – of the myth of the Book of Genesis.

The medieval walled city of Carcassonne in France is built upon high ground to provide maximum protection from attackers.

The valley is a long, narrow basin below sea level, yet is walled by high, steep mountain ranges.

Ledra Street is in the middle of the walled city.

The Modern French word bourgeois derived from the Old French burgeis ( walled city ), which derived from bourg ( market town ), from the Old Frankish burg ( town ); in other European languages, the etymologic derivations are the Middle English burgeis, the Middle Dutch burgher, the German Bürger ( burgess ), and the Polish burżuazja, which occasionally is synonymous with the intelligentsia.

The Ravenna Cosmography, of around 700, makes reference to Purocoronavis, ( almost certainly a corruption of Durocornovium ), ' a fort or walled settlement of the Cornovii ': the location is unidentified, but Tintagel and Carn Brea have both been suggested.