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Topic: Victorian period

Related:
  Victorian    Period  
  Late Period    Victorian house  
  Victorian era    Victorian style  
  Menstrual Period    Victorian home  
  Medieval period    Colonial Period  
  Periods and Movements    Victorian times  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite activity(s):Pottery
Favorite possession(s):House,  Ikea bedroom,  Barbie Doll
People talk about their ..:Fashion sense
Favorite royal(s):Queen Victoria
Currently has on their coffee table:Fine Woodworking,  Vogue magazine
Favorite movie(s):Gone with the Wind
Likes to wear:Sixties,  Bangles,  Mambo
Dream job(s):Interior decorator
Favorite online activity(s):eBay Auctions
Favorite era(s):1930s,  1950s,  1800s
Favorite quote(s):"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Children's welfare policy in England and America, late Victorian and Edwardian period; poverty and social policy studies; women's studies.
John Fielding,
CEO

Senior staff of the proposed laboratory spend extended periods in the Victorian facility becoming expert trainers for other staff members.
It is from this era that most of Cranleigh' s period housing derives offering a wide range of substantial and smaller Victorian and Edwardian properties.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

A beautifully restored Victorian villa created with genuine antiques, tasteful period furnishings and original wood paneling.
Victorian flavor and color is featured throughout the Inn with era-styled wallpaper and period antique furnishings.
Included are period rooms with early Canadian and Victorian furniture, classical and Art Deco motifs, modernized kitchenettes and a jacuzzi suite.
Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner

The buildings and street scenes feature historic architecture of various periods ranging from Medieval Gothic to Victorian and Art Deco.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

To put it in a historical perspective, a white wedding for a second marriage would have been a serious breach of etiquette in the Victorian and Edwardian period and for most of the twentieth century.
Once a small village, Church Stretton expanded greatly in the late Victorian and Edwardian period when it became a popular health resort.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Victorian The designation given to the period from approximately 1837 when Victoria became Queen of England until 1901 when she died.
I usually work within the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837-1910) but have studied from about 1800-1915.
Period styles include Elizabethan, 17th and 18th Centuries, Victorian and Edwardian, 1920s through 1970s and more.
 
 
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2005-05-06 10:08:04
Why might Micaulay's standards of progress be considered materialistic? what other kinds of progress could there be?
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