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For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass." The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish...

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1865. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766137627. Vol. I, Nos. 1-12 of the periodical "The Masonic Eclectic." Gleanings from the harvest field of Masonic literature and the kindred sciences: ancient and modern - original and selected. Sample articles: Doctrines of the ancient mysteries, Presentation to Henry C. Banks, Memoir of Cagliostro, Darkness, Laying the foundation stone, Masonry in London, Masonic Hymn, The Maine Quest...

Vol. I, Nos. 1-12 of the periodical "The Masonic Eclectic." Gleanings from the harvest field of Masonic literature and the kindred sciences: ancient and modern - original and selected. Sample articles: Doctrines of the ancient mysteries, Presentation to Henry C. Banks, Memoir of Cagliostro, Darkness, Laying the foundation stone, Masonry in London, Masonic Hymn, The Maine Question.

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Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London tells the remarkable story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first 'star' animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo.In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds a...

Excerpt from The Constitution, Statutes, and Code of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York: With Explanatory Notes, Supplemented by the Approved Decisions of the Grand Lodge, the Whole Forming a Substantial Code of JurisprudenceWe have given the decisions quoted as they finally passed the Grand Lodge, not deeming it necessary to cumber the work with other reference to the transition from the first proposition as ...

Excerpt from The Constitution, Statutes, and Code of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York: With Explanatory Notes, Supplemented by the Approved Decisions of the Grand Lodge, the Whole Forming a Substantial Code of JurisprudenceWe have given the decisions quoted as they finally passed the Grand Lodge, not deeming it necessary to cumber the work with other reference to the transition from the first proposition as ...

Excerpt from Familiar Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Masonic JurisprudenceWe are by no means vain enough to suppose that we have exhausted the questions at issue, or that nothing more is to' be said on the subject, but we do believe that the great number of brethren unacquainted with the jurisprudence of the Fraternity will find here useful hints to guide their progress in the study of the laws which govern our institution, and to ...

A Familiar Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Masonic Jurisprudence is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available...

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Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, they were also read by children of the gentry. They included fiction, almanacs, religious guidance and radical political tracts, and were available throughout the British Isles and in colonial America. The six chapbook romances in this volume all derive from tales of chivalric adventure and courtly love which were current i...

This work examines the way literature and film can convey historical dimensions of a story. Among the topics addressed are storytelling as a cognitive instrument, Consolo's "Il Sorriso Dell'ignot Marinaio", film as historical text in "Danton", and Hitchcock's "Sabotage".

Looking at zoological gardens, private menageries, circuses, and natural history museums, this fascinating account explores the surprising extent of the exotic-animal trade in 19th-century England and its colonies. Filled with entertaining anecdotes-from the tiger that prowled down St. George's Street in London with a boy in its mouth and the polar bear that killed a dog in Liverpool to the kangaroos hopping around the lawns of stately homes a...

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The Atheist Coloring and Activity Book provides a broad though compact course on the world view of Atheism. While adhering to the format of a coloring book, it is a completely serious work that was designed to inform while entertaining adults.