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Victorian London A-Z Street Index The third phase of our Victorian London Street Index is now complete and contains over 61,000 references. A note of caution for family and local history researchers. During the latter-half of the nineteenth century, Metropolitan London was rapidly being rebuilt. Slums were demolished and replaced with new houses and a lot of demolition of roads took place to make way for the railways. Without consulting contemporary maps, a named road may not always be exactly the same road throughout it's history. In 1888 the General Post Office and London County Council conducted a renaming and renumbering scheme to eliminate duplicate road names throughout the LCC and to renumber houses consistently with the lowest number being closest to the local post office. In the street indexes, places shown in UPPER case letters refer to the Registration District for census returns, or in the case of the City of London they indicate the ward.

World Poverty Map Example of application of the SOM: The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) can be used to portray complex correlations in statistical data. Here the data consisted of World Bank statistics of countries in 1992. Altogether 39 indicators describing various quality-of-life factors, such as state of health, nutrition, educational services, etc, were used. Countries that had similar values of the indicators found a place near each other on the map. The poverty structures of the world can then be visualized in a straightforward manner: each country on the geographic map has been colored according to its poverty type. Countries organized on a self-organizing map based on indicators related to poverty: A map of the world where countries have been colored with the color describing their poverty type (the color was obtained with the SOM in the previous figure): This page is maintained by Samuel.Kaski@hut.fi.

THE VIRTUAL VICTORIAN the Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant At the Circulating Library Begun in 2007, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction. Currently, the database contains 10605 titles by 2658 authors (more statistics). The database is hosted by the Victorian Research Web, a major and free research resource for Victorian scholars. How to Use To browse a list of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres (novels sharing a common subject), or groups (authors sharing a common trait), use the links under "Novels" in the navigation bar. To search for a particular author or title, use "Search." Statistical information about novel production (e.g., prolific authors, number of serializations) may be found under "Statistics." Coverage Updates

Quipu Quipus (or khipus), sometimes called talking knots, were recording devices historically used in the region of Andean South America. A quipu usually consisted of colored, spun, and plied thread or strings from llama or alpaca hair. It could also be made of cotton cords. For the Inca, the system aided in collecting data and keeping records, ranging from monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and military organization.[1] The cords contained numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base ten positional system. Objects that can be identified unambiguously as quipus first appear in the archaeological record in the first millennium CE. Etymology[edit] The word "khipu", meaning "knot" or "to knot", comes from the Quechua language, the "lingua franca and language of administration" of Tahuantinsuyu.[6] Purpose[edit] Most information recorded on the quipus consists of numbers in a decimal system.[8] Literary Uses[edit] System[edit] History[edit]

Victoria Research Web The Blog of Death Victorians 1850 - 1901 The world's largest empire is governed from Whitehall. Our collections offer an invaluable insight into the politics of empire and the daily lives of its citizens. Our massive photographic holdings covering Britain and its colonies vividly bring the period to life. Topics Selling the Victorians Has advertising changed from Victorian times? Wampum Description and manufacture[edit] The white beads are made from the inner spiral of the channeled whelk shell. In the area of present New York Bay, the clams and whelks used for making wampum are found only along Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. The Lenape name for Long Island is Sewanacky, reflecting its connection to the dark wampum. Typically wampum beads are tubular in shape, often a quarter of an inch long and an eighth inch wide. Wooden pump drills with quartz drill bits and steatite weights were used to drill the shells. Care must be taken while crafting or incising wampum. Origin[edit] The term "wampum" is a shortening of the earlier word "wampumpeag", which is derived from the Massachusett or Narragansett word meaning "white strings [of shell beads]".[4][5] The Proto-Algonquian reconstructed form is *wa·p-a·py-aki, "white-string-plural Uses[edit] The mark of authority one had when one carried wampum is an important thing. Currency[edit] Transcription[edit] Symbolic use[edit]

The Victorian Society Memento mori Memento Mori(Remember that you will die) This page deals with the representation of Death in sculptures in Rome during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. The request for sculptures was mainly linked to funerary monuments. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed many funerary monuments of very different size and cost to cater for all the needs of his customers. Tombs Valtrini in S. Both tombs show a representation of Death in the form of a winged skeleton holding a portrait of the dead or a celebratory inscription. The monument to Pope Urban VIII was located by Bernini in the northern side of the Tribune of St. Monument to Pope Urban VIII in St Peter's A dramatic representation of Death also marks the Monument to Pope Alexander VII again by Bernini (1678) in St Peter's. Monument to Pope Alexander VII in St Peter's The papal monuments which followed however were more similar to Bernini's Monument to Pope Urban VIII than to this monument. Monument to Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali in S. S.