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St. Gerome was a European artist, who designed the beautifully detailed illustrations for Olive Schreiner's "Dreams". The book itself was printed on hand-made Roycroft watermarked paper, while the illustrations were inked with brown ink. The elegant…

This article provides a scathing view of the diagnosis of hysteria, which prominently "affected" women in the Victorian era. As this article is from a satire publication, the object here is to ridicule the diagnosis of hysteria, as it was…

The chapter called "The Final Problem" is the case that features James Moriarty, also known as the 'Napoleon Of Crime'. Considering the Sherlock piece that we read in class I intended read this story as a means of analyzing Sherlock's great rival…

The cover of this copy of The Minstrel Boy: A Portrait of Tom Moore by L.A.G. Strong contains the words "T. Moore" written in cursive and embossed in gold. Tom Moore, the subject of this text, was an Irish poet and songwriter, most known for his…

This is the Mona Lisa. Well known to be painted by Leonardo DaVinci during the Italian Renaissance, where artists learned a great deal on how to make more realistic paintings.

Though the painting itself is important in art history, people…

This website gives us a concise timeline of the New York Yankees. It gives us insight on their establishment, golden age, post-golden age, and dynasty to present. This is a wide range of glorifying history from the early 1920s-present time.

Written in 1952, this short novel focuses on an old man out at sea trying to catch a large marlin. The overall tone and corresponding themes of this piece were mainly influenced by Hemingway's time in Key West rather than his experience during the…