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The 19th-Century US home that embodied the super-rich
[ad_1] George was set apart. Jenkins tells the BBC, “He doesn’t necessarily fit into a kind of Vanderbilt mould. He doesn’t really participate in New York society. He doesn’t inherit any of the business responsibility for his family’s railroad interests. But he starts collecting from a really young age. And so we see in the…
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a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial A…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #6: The Elephant in the Bodleian: a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial Approaches to Knowledge In George Orwell’s essay Shooting an Elephant (1936), the narrator, a colonial police officer in Burma, describes the chaos caused by a tame elephant that has gone “must,” its mahout…
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How 19th-Century cook Antonin Carême made extraordinary food…
[ad_1] Alamy A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called “King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings” – shown as a wild enfant terrible in post-Revolutionary France who blazed a trail for future generations of cooks. It’s described as “the story of the first celebrity chef”. The French language series Carême…
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19th-century Lucknow through the lenses of homegrown photogr…
[ad_1] In the 19th century, the city of Lucknow witnessed one of the most defining moments in India’s history – the war of 1857. Perhaps it is for this reason, (and the simultaneous rise of photography), that there exist several “albums” and “views” of the city. These photos, are now at museums and libraries in…