in the late 19th century, is what you need ... a wooden stand for it out of a repurposed candlestick, a nice piece of scrap oak, and some brass feet giving it that antique mad-scientist feel.

While some retailers sell reproductions in the Victorian and late 19th-century styles ... also attach a lamp kit to a large silver or brass candlestick as a base. Thread the cord downward or ...

Stack some hardbound books and an old brass candlestick next to it, and suddenly it feels like a little scene from a 19th-century novel." While these vintage-framed paintings could be incorporated ...

(CNN) — A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s ...

STAATSBURG — Following Juneteenth, Staatsburgh State Historic Site presents a talk by Bill Jeffway at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, on how the Black community of 19th-century Dutchess County ...

Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee ...

When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...

The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists' wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists' longing for a dictatorship of the proletariat. Instead, he offered a vision ...

The site focuses on the history of the fur trade and the post that operated there for decades in the 19th century.

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