Portmeirion Pottery
Portmeirion Pottery’s most famous design is Botanic Garden but the company has produced a...
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Month: March 2013
William Wordsworth 1770–1850
A Character I marvel how Nature could ever find space For so many strange contrasts in one human...
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WH Davies 1871-1940
Most famous poem Leisure: What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare....
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Pleasure and Profit of Coin Collecting
The first coins ever invented were probably stamped ingots of electrum, a mixture of gold and...
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Pink Diamonds – The Very Highest Quality Diamonds
One of the Rarest and Most Valuable Colours of Diamond Natural fancy coloured diamonds are very...
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The Lumière Brothers
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April...
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The Kinetoscope
Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 and it had quickly become the most popular home...
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Georges Méliès
The shift in consciousness away from films as animated photographs to films as stories, or...
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Emile Reynaud 1844–1918
Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French science teacher, responsible for the first animated films. He...
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About Pearls
Pearls differ from other gemstones in as much as they are not mined but harvested from molluscs,...
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