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Joseph Pulitzer Crowd-funded Statue of Liberty
Joseph Pulitzer Crowd-funded Statue of Liberty
Without the concept of Crowd-funding, America might not have the Statue of Liberty. And without Josef Pulitzer’s New York World Read More>...
Cannes Red Carpet Kerfuffle 2015 And Victorian Dress Reform
Cannes Red Carpet Kerfuffle 2015 And Victorian Dress Reform
According to Screen International, the great shoe scandal of the Cannes Film Festival 2015 caused a commotion when women were Read More>...
Celebrating Mother’s Day Since 1908: Anna Marie Jarvis
Celebrating Mother’s Day Since 1908: Anna Marie Jarvis
We’ve been celebrating Mother’s Day since 1908, thanks to Anna Marie Jarvis. Even if she did go a little bonkers Read More>...
Nellie Bly Turns 151 On May 5th!
Nellie Bly Turns 151 On May 5th!
Nellie Bly turns 151. She was born on May 5, 1864 in Cochran’s Mills Pennsylvania to Mary Jane and Michael Cochran. Read More>...
Malibu’s Original Pioneer Woman: Victorian Era, 1892
Malibu’s Original Pioneer Woman: Victorian Era, 1892
Rhoda May Rindge first came to Malibu with her husband Frederick in the 1890s. She probably had no idea that Read More>...
Lincoln’s Death Reported Nine Days Late
Lincoln’s Death Reported Nine Days Late
It was Easter week, 1865. The Civil War was near its end and Washington D.C. was in full celebration. Then Read More>...
The Easter Bonnet That Never Saw Easter
The Easter Bonnet That Never Saw Easter
It’s worth a trip to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) Museum in downtown Los Angeles. You can see Read More>...
Easter Bonnets And Victorian Era Parades: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Easter Bonnets And Victorian Era Parades: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Easter Bonnets: Put Some Spring In Your Step Victorian Era Easter Bonnets were the crowning glory of their Easter Parades. Read More>...
Yearly White House Egg Roll Celebrates Easter
Yearly White House Egg Roll Celebrates Easter
The yearly White House Egg Roll celebrates Easter. Today, the Easter Egg Roll has grown from a few local children Read More>...
Let The Good Easter Eggs Roll!
Let The Good Easter Eggs Roll!
People of the Victorian Era knew how to have fun with eggs. Among their many crazy Spring time games, they Read More>...
The Day of the Dogs And Queen Victoria’s Childhood Joy
The Day of the Dogs And Queen Victoria’s Childhood Joy
Queen Victoria’s Dogs Queen Victoria described her childhood as “melancholy,” but one of her greatest joys as a child, and Read More>...
Hair Loss? Runny Nose? Try These Victorian Remedies.
Hair Loss? Runny Nose? Try These Victorian Remedies.
Victorian remedies could cure whatever ails you. Hair Loss? Runny nose? Teething baby? Hot whisky is dandy, but sniffing a Read More>...
What Was The Top Song On the Day of Your First…?
What Was The Top Song On the Day of Your First…?
What was the top song on the day you were born? What about your parents, or your grandparents? And what was Read More>...
Victorian Bathing Machines
Victorian Bathing Machines
Ah the Victorian Bathing Machine. The Victorian Era’s answer to beach cover-ups. There were so many rules of bathing etiquette Read More>...
Madame C.J. Walker: America’s First Self-Made Female Millionaire
Madame C.J. Walker: America’s First Self-Made Female Millionaire
Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), better known as Madame C.J. Walker, is regarded as Read More>...
