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Author: David James

Medieval Era 

10 Fascinating Facts About Mont Saint-Michel — the Medieval City on a Rock

October 6, 2017 David James

Rising hundreds of feet above a rocky islet amidst vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides stands a Gothic Benedictine abbey surrounded

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Art 

The Art of Autumn

September 25, 2017 David James

Autumn is a time of contemplation. A time to reflect on the changing of the seasons from growth to decay.

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20th Century Edwardian Era 

Frozen in Time—the Kaiser’s Home in Exile

September 16, 2017September 16, 2017 David James

At the end of World War I, the world desperately needed a scapegoat to help come to terms with four

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Art Victorian Era 

Renoir—an Impression of Beauty

September 8, 2017September 8, 2017 David James impressionism, paintings

Famed for his paintings of bustling 19th-century Parisian life, pretty women and sensual nudes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s eye for beauty captured the

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Victorian Era 

Neuschwanstein—Castle of Dreams

August 26, 2017June 18, 2018 David James castles, Germany, kings

Born in Nymphenburg Palace—the “Castle of the Nymphs”—in Munich, Bavaria, and growing up in the Gothic Revival fantasy castle of

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Victorian Era 

The Real Gangs of New York

August 9, 2017October 18, 2017 David James

Those are the gruesome words of Bill “the Butcher” Cutting, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs

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Art The Georgian Era Victorian Era 

Francois Flameng—Interpreter of Beauty

July 29, 2017August 2, 2017 David James

Beautiful places, beautiful people, beautiful clothes—Francois Flameng loved to paint them all. Born in an art studio in Paris in

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Art Edwardian Era Victorian Era 

The Light that Inspired the Skagen Painters

July 14, 2017August 2, 2017 David James

Skagen is a village in the northernmost part of Denmark. From the late 1870s until the turn of the century,

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Victorian Era 

Empire and Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling’s Stiff Upper Lip

July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 David James

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, best known as the author of The Jungle Book. He

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The Georgian Era 

Lafayette—the Hero of Two Worlds

July 4, 2017November 27, 2017 David James

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer. To many of us, he is simply the

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Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ― Jane Austen.

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