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Abandoned Buildings — Stories Frozen in Time

February 2, 2016February 6, 2017 David James abandoned, architecture, buildings

History is literally dying all around us. Decay is nature’s process of creative destruction—destroying the old to make way for the

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  • Sense and Sensibility with Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, and Alan Rickman
  • Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
  • Jane Austen's favorite: Mansfield Park
  • Downton Abbey
  • Colin Firth as Mr Darcy
  • Matthew Macfadyen as Mr Darcy
  • Jane Austen's Persuasion
  • John Atkinson Grimshaw — Painter of Moonlight
  • 20 Amazing Winter Paintings from the Little Ice Age
  • A 5-Minute Guide to the House of Worth

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Jane Austen We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ― Jane Austen.

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