Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.

Memoirs, Including Original Journals, Letters, Papers, And Antiquarian Tracts, Of The Late Charles Alfred Stothard, F.S.A. Author Of The Monumental Effigies Of Great Britain. With Connective Notices ...

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Sometime in the early 1830s, the British East India Company officials in India came to know of the presence of a red-haired, grey-eyed man travelling around in Kabul, with a few maps, a compass and an ...

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Memoirs Of Sir Edwin Landseer A Sketch Of The Life Of The Artist, Illustrated With Reproductuions Of Twenty-Four Of His Most Popular Works. Being a New Edition of "The Early Works of Sir Edwin ...

A man who found a ring that is thought to contain a baby girl's ashes is appealing for its owner to get in touch. Max Cockrell, 24, spotted the ring on a street in Gorleston, Norfolk, on Saturday ...