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Victorian and hymns
This collection of hymns, although not a financial success, became a bridge between the Victorian hymnody of the last half of the 19th century and the modern hymnody of the early 20th century.
His biographer Ian Parrott records that Philip loathed Eton, " with its hearty adolescent bawling of Victorian hymns in an all-male college chapel ".
The Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.

Victorian and such
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.
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.
During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).
in novels such as Vice Versa ( 1882 ), where magic disrupts Victorian society with
In the early modern age, Victorian schools were reformed to teach commercially useful topics, such as modern languages and mathematics, rather than classical subjects, such as Latin and Greek.
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.
Folklorists such as Gwenith Gwynn, interviewing people in the early twentieth century, were unwittingly discovering folk memories of a Victorian misunderstanding rather than an actual, earlier folk practice.
The Country Party was formally founded in 1913 in Western Australia, and nationally in 1920 from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union ( VFU ) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales.
The only exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably the Savoy Operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, all of which types of musical entertainments frequently spoofed operatic conventions.
* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.
It involves a setting where steam power is widely used — whether in an alternative history such as Victorian era Britain or " Wild West "- era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time — that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy.
The Social Darwinists ' view is derived from Charles Darwin's interpretation of evolution by natural selection, which is explicitly competitive (" survival of the fittest "), Malthusian (" struggle for existence "), even gladiatorial (" red in tooth and claw "), and permeated by the Victorian laissez-faire ethos of Darwin and his disciples ( such as T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer ).
Hundreds of such institutions were founded in towns and cities throughout the country and while many of the fine Victorian buildings built to house them remain, Manchester's alone survived as an independent institution serving some of its original educational aims throughout the 20th century.
* A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts, especially popular for women in Victorian era to combat the aroma from the waste products common in cities
Viz also lampoons political ideas-both left-wing ideals, in strips such as " The Modern Parents " ( and to an extent in Student Grant ), and right-wing ones such as " Baxter Basics ", " Major Misunderstanding ", " Victorian Dad " and numerous strips involving tabloid columnists Garry Bushell (" Garry Bushell the Bear ") and Richard Littlejohn (" Richard Littlecock " and " Robin Hood and Richard Littlejohn "), portraying them as obsessed with homosexuality, political correctness and non-existent left-wing conspiracies to the exclusion of all else.
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.
In Victorian Britain, some writers such as Robert Knox,
Certain honours are awarded solely at the Sovereign's discretion, such as the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the Royal Victorian Order, the Order of Merit and the Royal Family Order.
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.
It was not until the Victorian era — with the emergence of the gun, the concept of natural history, and the collection of natural objects such as bird eggs and skins — that ornithology emerged as a specialized science.
At the end of the nineteenth-century, however, Shakers adopted some aspects of Victorian decor, such as ornate carved furniture, patterned linoleum, and cabbage-rose wallpaper.
It has extensive annotations explaining the contemporary references ( including the Victorian poems that Carroll parodies ), mathematical concepts, word play, and Victorian traditions ( such as the snap-dragons ) featured in the two books.

Victorian and We
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 .’
However, in 2006 the Victorian Auditor General noted that in spite of $ 750 million spent, " We found that the delivery of more frequent fast rail services in the Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo corridors by the agreed dates was not achieved.
According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, " We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria.
We both like the tropes associated with mad science, and I really enjoy drawing fiddley Victorian style gizmos ".
A warehouse with covered loading bays, converted into a museum of Victorian life ( often mistakenly thought to be Wigan Pier ), and the home to The Way We Were museum, was part of the Wigan Pier Experience museum and exhibition centre.

Victorian and fields
Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the " Vandemonians " as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.
The dam creates the artificial Lake Dartmouth, storing water from the Victorian " High Country's " snow fields for summer release into the Mitta Mitta ( and the downstream Lake Hume ) and subsequently into the greater Murray River for irrigation.
According to Victorian ideals, the men were forced into the fields to take on what had traditionally been the woman's role and the women were relegated to the domestic sphere.
A hospice was built at Mount Saint Bernard ( Elevation 1540 ) around 1863 along a track developed to link the Victorian gold fields.
The club also currently fields a seconds team in the Victorian Football League.
During the Victorian era and into the early 20th century, Carshalton was known for its lavender fields, but the increasing land demand for residential building put an end to commercial growing.
Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri, is an author and, since 1983, professor of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry as well as a recent interest in Edmund Burke.
Melton was first settled by squatters establishing sheep runs in the area in the 1830s and a small settlement benefited from traffic passing through it on the way to the Ballarat gold fields during the Victorian Gold Rush.
Now the club only fields juniors and a very successful women's team in the Victorian Women's Premier League.
Homerton College has extensive grounds which encompass sports fields, two water features, beehives and the focal point of the college, its Victorian gothic hall, which is where the students eat formal dinner by candlelight.
The Mount Waverley Cricket Club was founded in 1906 and fields five senior sides playing on turf in the who play in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association and the Box Hill Reporter competition ( Veterans grade ).
Caulfield Park is a large Victorian garden flanked by Hawthorn, Balaclava and Inkerman Roads, which features a war memorial, a decorative lake and playing fields for various sports.
William ’ s Town had been a primitive settlement until the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, but after the gold seekers began to arrive, many from the tin mines of Cornwall, and many more from the Californian gold fields, the settlement ’ s growth was phenomenal.
In 1857, a party of Chinese miners en route to the Central Victorian gold fields struck gold at the Canton Lead which marked the beginning of great growth in Ararat.
Though the Fitzroy Football Club ceased fielding a team in profession competitions, it continued as a standalone entity based at its traditional home, and fields a team in the amateur Victorian Amateur Football Association ( VAFA ).
He emigrated to Australia with his wife and four children in 1853, and arrived in Tasmania after three months in the Victorian gold fields.
Dale Fort is a Victorian era fort located on a rocky promontory that now houses a field studies centre, for study of local marine biology, biology, geology, geomorphology, and other related fields.
A Victorian racetrack, dating from 1868, held the ‘ Streatham Races ’ in the fields ( which were the sports ground of the National Westminster / NatWest Bank ) that formed part of the old Lonesome Farm.
Large numbers of Chinese people were working on the Victorian goldfields and fewer on the smaller NSW fields in the mid 1850s, when major gold finds in NSW and the passing of more restrictive anti-Chinese legislation in Victoria resulted in thousands of miners moving across the border in 1859.
The site is currently home to a terrace of Victorian houses amid old mineshafts, colliery spoil, a golf course ( which was later used as a driving range ) and playing fields.
The site of the school's first building stands on that of the Victorian mansion of the famed gold prospector Bernhardt Holtermann, a German migrant who discovered the Holtermann Nugget in the Australian gold fields.
Baseball was believed to have been brought to Australia with American gold miners in the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, where miners would play baseball on the gold fields on their rest days.

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