The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

On a recent visit to Bruges I enjoyed visiting the traditional lace shops selling a wide array of handkerchiefs, collars, ...

Historically associated with the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 19th century, this species is still cultivated today for medicinal purposes as the natural source of morphine and codeine.

Two lavish new galleries in the Cinquantenaire Park unveil Belgium’s design story like never before — from the birth of Art Nouveau to the glamour of Art Deco and the gilded oddities of the 19th ...

It is neither a painting nor a sculpture. It's a 19th-century condom, made from a sheep's appendix and printed with an erotic image of a nun and three aroused clergymen, now on public display for ...

The home was built by the Harrison family on farmland that later housed the Erwin Park neighborhood in Montclair. A 19th-century farmhouse once tied to Montclair’s early apple trade is on the ...

Buc-ee's first Virginia location has opened off Interstate 81 in Rockingham County, boasting 120 fuel pumps, souvenirs and ...

UK repeals 19th-century law In the amendment passed by British MPs, parts of the 1861 law will be revoked. The bill was originally passed by an all-male parliament that deemed that ending a ...

"Marie Antoinette Style" at the V&A Museum, will unpack her dress and interiors, exploring how her style has echoed through ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...