The Silvesterchlausen Festival blends harmony and anarchy into a bucket-list worthy event. Ages old, the Festival celebrates not one, but two New Year’s Eves in the Appenzell canton of North Eastern Switzerland. Since the 19th century, the first is held on December 31 according to the Gregorian calendar.
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
