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Photograph of temples at Dacca (Dhaka) taken in the 1880s, from an album Architectural Views of Dacca, containing 13 prints by Johnston and Hoffman.

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Fonthill Castle: Edwin Forrest’s Country Estate

Fonthill Castle was built in 1852 in The Bronx borough of New York City by prominent American Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest...

When Forrest’s father died in 1819, the 13-year-old attempted to apprentice with a printer, a cooper, and finally a ship chandler. However, the occupation he was meant to embrace became obvious to him while attending a lecture on nitrous oxide in early 1820. During the lecture he volunteered to participate in an experiment with the gas. Like others who took it, he behaved somewhat strangely and broke into a soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard III. His performance so impressed a Philadelphia lawyer named John Swift that he arranged an audition for Forrest at Walnut Street Theatre, and it was there that he had his formal stage debut on 27 November 1820 as Young Norval in John Home’s Douglas

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OH MY GOD I wrote Zolu instead of Zola as I was writing my notes for my exam I’m crying my brain is dying

Zolu:

Zola:

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The daughter of actors, Constance Collier was named after a character in Shakespeare's King John, the play in which her parents were touring at the time of her birth. Her mother Lizzie Hardie rejoined the company when Constance was only three weeks old, supposedly leaving the infant wrapped up in a blanket on her dressing table while she performed. As a youngster, when Collier was not appearing with her parents on stage (at three, as a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream; at six, as one of the children in The Silver King), she was often left in the care of the land-lady of whichever theatrical boarding house they were able to find.

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Jørgen Roed, La Scala Santa in the Monastery of San Benedetto near Subiaco (1857)