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During the 18th century, approximately 60,000 convicts were shipped from England to America and sold as indentured servants in the colonies. Today, a museum in Maryland remembers them.
The decline of formal penmanship has no doubt pained old-fashioned letter writers everywhere, but it poses a particular ...
In the 18th century, the economy of Great Britain was flourishing and many families were becoming prosperous. At around the same time, the painting genre of “conversation pieces” was created.
Ilike him -- he's so strange," says the maid Smeraldina of Truffaldino, the busy servant who's the comic focus of "A Servant of Two Masters." The 18th-century Carlo Goldoni comedy ...
A couple captured footage of what they think could be the ghost of a female servant from the 18th century. Danielle Hyde, 21, and Savanna Brown, 23, unintentionally filmed what appears to be a ...
Houston's Alley Theatre gives 18th-century classic a fresh treatment By Chris Gray , Gulf Coast Reporter Updated June 14, 2023 9:36 a.m. "The Servant of Two Masters" opens at the Alley Theater on ...
Figure of 18th-century servant spotted in the home of vaccine inventor Edward Jenner. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 12:28 EDT, 19 May 2009 . e-mail; View comments.
Agha Mohammad Khan, an 18th-century Persian king, ordered the execution of two servants for being too loud, but postponed it to avoid doing it on a holy day.