Art and Museums
Travel: The Splendor of India's Royal Court and Palaces of the Maharajas
"For confirmation of our love and friendship, I desire your Majesty to command your merchants to bring in their ships of all sorts of rarities and rich goods fit for my palace"— The Great Moghul Jahangir: Letter to James I, King of England, 1617 A.D. more »
Brilliant Women, 18th Century Bluestockings
They got their comical name - 'Bluestockings' - when another guest, the botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), was welcomed at one of Elizabeth Montagu's salons even though he had arrived absent-mindedly wearing the blue woollen stockings normally worn by working men, instead of the more formal white silk." more »
Shop at the National Maritime Museum for Unique Gifts
For a truly unique gift, adopt a penguin and receive a gift tin with the following: After registration you will receive: •A personalised certificate displaying your name and your penguin’s name •A colour photograph of your chosen penguin. more »
Wet With Blood; The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak
The Chicago History Museum has a number of sources online for the viewer. This booklet, Wet With Blood, is one of them. "Being a full and graphic account from a reliable authority of the Bloody Evidence of President Lincoln's assassination ..." more »
