Hampton Court Palace has been home to Henry VIII and other members from the royal family. It is the home of formal gardens, gorgeous works of art, and centuries of history. Fans of English history have the opportunity to see how royalty once lived, check out regal rooms from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and [...]
Over 30 old castles still remain in the southeast area of England as a reminder of the days when Great britain was a country partioned by ruling families who built formidable fortresses to secure their lands from invaders, both international and domestic. Contemporary castle trips enable tourists to obtain a sense of how vital these [...]
The Estey organ and piano became a dominate name for antique pianos. Jacob Estey was born on a farm in Hinsdale, NH, 1814. He had to leave his home at four years of age to work on a neighboring farm where he had to stay until he was thirteen years old when he ran away [...]
Charles Darwin wrote for a generation who had not accepted evolution and who could not imagine the descent of man from a primate ancestor, let alone a simple cell organism. Darwin did his work so well that his notion of “descent with modification” is now universally accepted as the order of nature in the organic [...]