Searching for “Our Babe”: Halifax’s Fairlawn Cemetery and the Mystery of the Titanic’s “Unknown Child,” Part II
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Searching for “Our Babe”: Halifax’s Fairlawn Cemetery and the Mystery of the Titanic’s “Unknown Child,” Part I
Halifax, the beautiful capital of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, offers no shortage of things to do, and most of them are in the compact,…
Dusty Books and Breast Milk: Iceland’s DIY Museum
What do you do with a discarded shoe factory in a small, self-consciously quirky, town with a long tradition of self-sufficiency, booming tourist population,…
Up for a light and tasty historical romp? I’ve got the museum for you.
Like chocolate? Like history? Like funny statues and very low-key museums? If so, Barcelona’s Museu de Xocolata (Chocolate Museum) is for you.
National art and national identity: Visiting St. Petersburg’s Russian Museum
You know that quaint and vaguely demeaning phrase, “always a bridesmaid, never a bride?” Well, it sort of fits the subject of this post,…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British Edition!
Hello everybody, and welcome to Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British edition. Grab a cup of tea (forgive me, a cuppa) and a pack of…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday for May 10th
Congratulations, one and all, we've made it to Wednesday! I won't waste time on midweek rhapsodizing, you all know why we celebrate Wednesday. So…
“Appalling” and “Totalitarian:” Oslo’s Must-See Gustav Vigeland Sculpture Park
Because, for once, I didn’t do my history homework, I wandered into the Gustav Vigeland Installation at Oslo’s Frogner Park unaware that I was…
Building the Tudor Dynasty, Part II: Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Years of Waiting Dangerously
So, um, it’s been a little while since I updated this series on Lady Margaret Beaufort and building of the Tudor dynasty. Need to…
Magical views, eerie otherworldliness, and unexpected screeching: Visiting Mont-Saint-Michel by night
Gothic arches, stone walls, narrow passages, cavernous rooms, flickering lights...and periodic screeching followed by glimpses of enormous eagle eyes and sharp talons?