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The Victorian Web
is your one-stop resource for England in the Victorian era (1837-1901). The site is much too extensive to give but a flavor. It is divided into 20 categories, including
Technology,
Gender Matters,
Economic Contexts,
Authors,
Political History,
Theater and Popular Entertainment,
Science and
Genre and Technique. Here are a few examples of the articles inside:
Inventions in Alice in Wonderland,
The Role of the Victorian Army,
Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang (and a
glossary of same),
Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Philosophy of Androgyny, Hermaphrodeity, and Victorian Sexual Mores,
Evolution, progress and natural laws and, of course,
Queen Victoria.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:00 AM on July 28, 2008
(10 comments)
Saturday is
Mead Day, a day to make, drink, and celebrate mead (honey wine).
posted to MetaFilter by maurice
at 3:59 AM on July 28, 2008
(39 comments)
ParentingFilter: My two year-old isn't speaking in sentences yet. Should I worry?
posted to Ask Metafilter by echolalia67
at 1:14 PM on July 26, 2008
(32 comments)
This is a collection of the National Archives stored in the
Digital Vaults. You can browse through hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records. With the
Pathways tool you can see the unique and surprising connections between events and people and test your knowledge of history. As you travel through the site and collect documents, images and films, you can then merge the objects to
create your own poster or movie from your collection.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 4:46 AM on July 17, 2008
(16 comments)
Conversation starters needed for married couple's date night. The wife is a bit introverted and needs some prodding to get a conversation started... if it doesn't include career, kids or family.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:09 AM on July 11, 2008
(19 comments)
In Parentheses
is a collection of many ancient, medieval and classic texts from all over the world, many of whom are hard to find anywhere, let alone on the internet. There are translations from
Greek,
Old Norse,
Medieval Irish,
Japanese,
Incan,
Old French,
Medieval Latin and many more! As well as all that they have
papers in medieval studies and
vaguely decadent and
orientalism series. Adding to that there's a
linguistics section with wordlists and language flash cards in languages such as
Icelandic,
Quechua,
Basque,
Classical Armenian and a whole bunch more.
[flashcard links go to pdf files]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 12:19 PM on July 10, 2008
(18 comments)
Fat girl + hot climates = potential badness. Help a gal feel comfortable without grossing anyone out. (Apologies for long explanation/details)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 5:48 PM on July 10, 2008
(56 comments)
Looking for rubber stamps that AREN'T pretty flowers or happy things.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Meagan
at 9:31 AM on July 10, 2008
(14 comments)
Is there any way to find out my grandfather's medical / criminal history when a) I know almost nothing about him and b) He's been dead since 1994?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bondcliff
at 7:26 AM on February 1, 2006
(12 comments)
2 July 1863, second day of
Gettysburg. Sickles has pulled his III Corps -- without orders -- off of Cemetery Ridge and positioned it a half mile in front of the rest of the Union lines. Longstreet smashes the hapless III Corps and its men are in full flight. Hancock rides back and forth inside the gaping hole left by Sickles. Below him, almost 2000 men of Wilcox's brigade are charging up the slope. They will gain a foothold on the ridge and be reinforced by Lee. As Longstreet pins down the Union left, Lee will roll up the center and right of the Northern army and chase them from the field. He will then march on and take Washington before turning north along the eastern seaboard. Lee will capture and burn Philadelphia and Boston in his March Along the Sea, chasing the Northern government from city to city until Lincoln finally sues for peace and the union is no more.
Suddenly, a line of blue-coated soldiers comes into Hancock's view. "My God, is this all the men here? Who are you?" "
1st Minnesota, sir." "See those colors?", says Hancock, pointing at the flags of the oncoming Confederates, "Take them."
posted to MetaFilter by forrest
at 5:45 AM on July 2, 2008
(82 comments)
I love Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. It's a non-fiction book about Chicago in 1893 which reads much like a novel. I'd like to read other books written in the same novel-esque style about some other cities or historic events. Know of any novel-like non-fiction reads?
posted to Ask Metafilter by melodykramer
at 7:39 PM on June 29, 2008
(46 comments)
"It's somewhat fitting that a man named
Charles Bird King--a name both eminently European yet vaguely Amerindian--would depict the natives of the American East (Creek, Crow, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw, Iowa, Fox, Winnebago, etc) at a time when there was a semblance of parity (parody of parity?) between the Old and New Worlds. This was expressed in the dress of natives as well as many whites who lived among them: European brass gorgets and artfully knotted cravats around the neck of a men with painted faces and feathers in their hair. The synthesis is breathtaking: both fierce and fey. It's a damn pity the European influence eventually crushed the Native--this could very well have become our national mode of dress."
Lord Whimsy.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 12:56 PM on June 25, 2008
(8 comments)
My family is considering moving to Oregon (or conceivably Washington) in a couple of years, and we are going to visit soon. I'd like to collect suggestions of possible locations so we can try to visit. We would like a cheap, small town with a liberal climate along the Washington/Oregon border or moderately near the coast. Is this possible?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lgyre
at 8:04 PM on June 24, 2008
(30 comments)
You won't find
Donkeyskin in many modern fairy-tale anthologies, perhaps because it concerns a girl so beautiful that her own father wanted to marry her. But don't worry, she dresses up as a donkey and escapes! Made famous by Charles Perrault, the story has
many variants--Catskin, Allerleirauh, Thousandfurs, The She-Bear, All Kinds of Fur--and has been subject to many
interpretations. The tale was illustrated by several of the great gift-book illustrators, including
Arthur Rackham,
Kay Nielsen,
Gustave Doré, and the less well-known
R. de la Neziere. (More R. de la Neziere
here and
here.) Oh, and here's a
sexy one.
posted to MetaFilter by Powerful Religious Baby
at 4:09 PM on June 15, 2008
(41 comments)
How would a person go about becoming a phone sex operator?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CitizenD
at 1:01 PM on June 11, 2008
(16 comments)
What real-life bands or songs sound like Spinal Tap?
posted to Ask Metafilter by EKStickland
at 10:53 PM on June 5, 2008
(34 comments)
I've just figured out how to use my gas grill to smoke things. It's really working well.
Any ideas or suggestions about great things to smoke?
Meat, veggies, cheese? Different woods? Recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by snsranch
at 5:57 PM on June 6, 2008
(18 comments)
America's for sale. Just ask Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. With the U.S. economy in shambles, Paulson just spent four days touring the Middle East, hat in hand, looking for investors to bail us out. Specifically, on Monday, Paulson met with heads of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the world's largest "sovereign wealth fund" with roughly $875 billion in assets, and encouraged them to buy American businesses.
Mortgaging America by Eric J. Weiner (LA Times Op Ed)
posted to MetaFilter by ornate insect
at 11:15 AM on June 5, 2008
(42 comments)
Now that the primary season is over and major party nominees have been determined for the upcoming U.S. presidential and congressional elections, please help me find unbiased, non-partisan, impartial news and commentary outlets to follow the campaigns.
posted to Ask Metafilter by netbros
at 3:44 AM on June 5, 2008
(17 comments)
Here's your chance to bake bread like a master.
Cookingbread.com. The detailed step-by-step instructions include photos to help guide you through each bread recipe, from start to finish. You will find many different kinds of recipes for bread machines, or family classics such as
cheese bread and
banana bread. I just made some
cracked wheat this past weekend. Also includes
printable recipe cards. So get baking.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 5:41 AM on June 4, 2008
(15 comments)
John Prine released
John Prine in 1971 with the songs
Illegal Smile,
Spanish Pipedream,
Hello In There,
Sam Stone,
Paradise,
Pretty Good,
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore,
Far From Me,
Angel From Montgomery,
Quiet Man,
Donald & Lydia,
Six O'clock News and
Flashback Blues.
An interview from 1971.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrogin
at 11:12 AM on June 3, 2008
(38 comments)
What to serve with rosemary brownies?
posted to Ask Metafilter by piedmont
at 2:18 PM on May 28, 2008
(17 comments)
I'm in a bit of a jam economically. I've got to make some decisions on how to proceed. Where can I go for advice and counseling on my best course of action?
posted to Ask Metafilter by diode
at 7:01 AM on May 28, 2008
(6 comments)
The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely
tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly. Then it's over to San Francisco for one last bit of homicidal vehicular activity with a bus. Well, they sure don't drive
like they used to!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:53 PM on May 25, 2008
(37 comments)
Monday got you stressed? Tired of all the politicking?
Here's something to help you relax. Remember, just like real life, yellow is good, purple is gooder and red is bad.
posted to MetaFilter by oxford blue
at 11:46 PM on May 25, 2008
(32 comments)
The Hole in the Wall
[via mefi projects] is our own
interrobang's surrealistic cat story now being serialized at
Top Shelf Comics as part of their new Webcomics section, and it's definitely something special - pen & ink & watercolor adventures of two cats exploring a mysterious and dangerous underground landscape. More comics like this will be posted there depending on the popularity of this one, so if you love art, great comics, or cats, you
will want to check it out. This was a part of interrobang's
Year in Comics project, so if you fall in love with the Hole in the Wall kittehs (you will!), go have look at his other stuff, as well.
posted to MetaFilter by taz
at 7:09 AM on May 23, 2008
(30 comments)
According to
Michael Pollan's Eat Food article in the New York Times, we're supposed to eat more plants, esp leaves. So where are the leaf recipes? Does this come down to nothing more than spinach and lettuce salads or is there a interesting cuisine out there somewhere? Are there any cookbooks with leafy foods as their focus?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bbranden1
at 9:44 AM on May 22, 2008
(33 comments)
I'd like to get an entry level DSLR with *only* a basic prime lens for under $600. Is this doable?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rsanheim
at 7:57 AM on May 21, 2008
(33 comments)
Kim Neely has enjoyed a very rich professional life already. A writer for Rolling Stone for fifteen years, she also penned the
Pearl Jam biography. These days find Kim involved in an entirely different pursuit.
Lampworking is a type of glass work that uses a gas fueled torch to melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. At her mom's unused workshop Kim created
Bluff Road Art Glass.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 9:32 PM on May 15, 2008
(7 comments)
