Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.

Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her son Edward VII became king, inaugurating the Edwardian Era, which was characterised by great and ostentatious displays of wealth in contrast to the sombre Victorian Era.

The unsolved problems relating to Irish Home Rule played a great part in politics in the later Victorian era, particularly in view of Gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement.

A great engineering feat in the Victorian Era was the sewage system in London.

Matheson goes to great lengths to rationalize or naturalize the vampire myth, transplanting the monster from the otherworldly realms of folklore and Victorian supernaturalism to the test tube of medical inquiry and rational causation.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

Fraser decided to write Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an " illustrious Victorian soldier ": experiencing many 19th-century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the British Army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description " a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and oh yes, a toady.

The Edwardian age was also seen as a mediocre period of pleasure between the great achievements of the preceding Victorian age and the catastrophe of the following war.

During Victorian times the town was a backwater, escaping large-scale development, and the town centre remains very much as it must have been in the mid-seventeenth century, when the houses were rebuilt after a great fire.

* The Vardens Building, located at 509 Main Street, is a great example of Victorian architecture and interior design.

The choir sings a broad and diverse repertoire, including-in addition to the core Victorian and Edwardian canon-many of the great Tudor Canticles and Anthems and a wide selection of Renaissance and Viennese Masses.

In the days of the canal, wealthy families built great Victorian houses along the canal.

In the Victorian period there was a great emphasis on the importance of self-improvement, and parents keen for their children to receive a decent education organised the creation of new schools with modern curricula, though often retaining a classical core.

In 1934 he was awarded a British honour, being created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( KCVO ) due to his great merits in Anglo-Finnish relations.

It was one of the first of the great London parks laid out in the Victorian era.

The Victorian era was a period of great political change, social and economic change.

These have uncovered a great many objects of historical significance, including many Bronze Age vessels Canoes, some up to 40ft in length, and the wreck of a Victorian pleasure yacht.

Euston's 1960s style of architecture has been variously described as " hideous ", " a dingy, grey, horizontal nothingness " and a reflection of " the tawdry glamour of its time " entirely lacking in " the sense of occasion, of adventure, that the great Victorian termini gave to the traveller ".

Today all that remains of Hatton's great house are two archways and the kitchen wing incorporated into the Victorian rebuild, now standing on a lawn, which once gave access to the courtyards ; a near identical third arch bears the date 1659 and so must have been built for Baynes the Cromwellian owner.

In the many discussions that I held with such officials up to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the President's Science Adviser, not one Victorian demurrer was ever voiced ; and a great deal of helpful encouragement was given ... The idea of government censorship of the Pioneer 10 plaque is now so well documented and firmly entrenched that no statement from the designers of the plaque to the contrary can play any role in influencing the prevailing opinion.

It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer ( actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine ).

This lively tradition continued into the 19th century with the rags to riches genre to which almost all the great Victorian romancers have contributed.

In the great Anglican debate of the Victorian era, he was a Low Churchman rather than High Church sacerdotalist.

The Junction Oval is home to the St Kilda Cricket Club and occasionally the Victorian Bushrangers Cricket Club and was made famous as the debut venue of cricket great Shane Warne.

Little or nothing from Leoncavallo's other operas is heard today, but the baritone arias from Zazà were great concert and recording favourites among baritones and Zazà as a whole is sometimes revived, as is his La bohème.

* Marcel Journet, great operatic baritone

It contains the great tenor romanza " Cielo e mar ", a superb duet for tenor and baritone " Enzo Grimaldo ", the soprano set-piece " Suicidio!

Notable artists who are today referenced as great euphonium players who played baritone were Simone Mantia and Leonard Falcone.

One of his musical heroes was the great baritone Lawrence Tibbett.

Looking back in 2004, Holloway's biographer Eric Midwinter wrote, " With his cockney authenticity, his splendid baritone voice, and his wealth of comedy experience, he made a great success of this role, and, as he said, it put him ' bang on top of the heap, in demand ' again at a time when, in his mid-sixties, his career was beginning to wane ".

Gustave's son, Alberto García ( 1875 – 1946 ), studied voice with his great aunt ( Pauline Viardot ), became a respected baritone, and produced an edition of his grandfather's treatise on singing ( 1924 ).

Although he sang Tonio in Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, and Scarpia in Tosca, he was particularly acclaimed as one of the finest interpreters of the great Verdi baritone roles, above all the title role of Rigoletto, which was captured in 1950 in an RCA recording with soprano Erna Berger and tenor Jan Peerce, conducted by Renato Cellini.

While initially meeting with a lukewarm reception due to his replacement of the popular Campbell, Kalas soon won the hearts of Phillies fans with his easy-going style, his mellow, baritone, leathery voice ( which rose to great excitement upon great plays on the field or Phillies ' home runs, especially in key situations ), his love of the game and also his accessibility to Phillies fans, for whom he professed a strong love.

Die schöne Müllerin had become central to the performing repertoire and partnership of Schubert with his friend, the baritone singer Johann Michael Vogl, who introduced Schubert and his songs into many musical households great and small in their tours through Austria during the mid-1820s.

It was the birthplace of the great 19th-century operatic baritone and art collector Jean-Baptiste Faure.

Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 1830 – 1914 ), the great French operatic baritone whose career centred on Paris and London, also owned a villa there.

Indeed, the great tenor Jean de Reszke called him the best-schooled Italian baritone of his era.

Blessed with a great baritone voice from the depths of an expansive paunch, he took singing lessons and while still racing began to sing professionally.

Thanks to a government grant, Christoff left in May 1942 for Italy where he was tutored for two years in the core Italian bass repertoire by the great baritone of an earlier generation, Riccardo Stracciari.

Although Lowry admittedly didn't have the natural ear for the baritone part, or the experience, he added a great voice along with his comedy and soon made their sound more smooth.

He is also featured on the five-disc box set, The Greatest Musicals of the 20th Century, where it says of him, " one singer who really stands out on this volume is the Welsh baritone Ivor Emmanuel .... e was of the same era and very much in the fine tradition of the great American musical theatre baritones: Howard Keel, John Raitt and Gordon Macrae.

Victor Maurel ( born, 17 June 1848 in Marseilles — died, 22 October 1923 in New York City ) was a French operatic baritone who enjoyed an international reputation as a great singing-actor.