The Crystal Palace was a huge exhibition building constructed in London's Hyde Park between 1850 and 1851. It hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851 - an event showcasing sculptures, machinery ...

25 December 1851 saw four tonnes of cooked meat donated ... Imperial ingenuity had attracted millions of visitors to the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. Prince Albert and his chums had mustered ...

Cartwright Hall was built on the site of Manningham Hall, the home of Lord Masham - formerly Samuel Cunliffe Lister - who built Manningham Mills. In 1870 the multi-millionaire sold the grounds to ...

Attendees can peruse these and other pop-up style books in the exhibit:” The Art of Pop-Up Books & Paper Peepshows” at the James Smith Noel Collection on the third floor of the Noel Memorial Library.

Historically, Crown Paints’ original factory supported Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic and it exhibited in the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition of 1851, at a time when its paints ...

1. A celebrity memoir published this year opens in Los Angeles in 1956 with its protagonist watching American Bandstand: ...

Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's ingenious telescopic glass and steel superstructure — inspired by Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851 — was a suitably contemporary monument to the new railway ...

The oldest neighborhood here is The French Quarter (also known as Vieux Carré), which despite its reputation for rowdy tourists and souvenir shops, is tightly woven into the tapestry of New Orleans ...