Fire tackled at £3.5m 19th Century country house

Fire crews from nine stations have spent most of the day tackling a blaze at an unoccupied 19th Century country house.
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How a 19th century house keeps the Boston-Kyoto sister city partnership strong

Exterior shot at the Boston Children's Museum in Boston, MA Thursday October 8, 2009. Mark Herz: Boston has 11 sister cities located all around the world — the very first partnership beginning in 1959 ...
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19th century British newspapers [electronic resource]

19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...
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Look inside the Armour-Stiner Octagon House, an ornate 19th-century mansion in New York, decorated for the holidays

The Armour-Stiner Octagon House is a fairytale mansion just 18 miles north of Manhattan. Frozen in time to the early 1870s, it was designed as a summer and weekend escape from New York. The residence, ...