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Modern orchid hunting is not without its dangers. Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter who follows the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian orchid hunters, was held in 2000 by kidnappers thought to be FARC guerillas in the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia, while hunting for rare orchids, a plant for which he has a particular passion.
The Victorian Flower Garden, 1991. The Wartime Kitchen and Garden, 1993. Harry's Big Adventure, 1994. The Sweet Makers at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shrophire, 3 episodes and a Christmas special (2017). [13] Victorian Slum House in the East End of London, 5 episodes (2016) - London slum life during Victorian era.
Orchidelirium, also called orchidomania or orchid fever, is the name given to the Victorian era's flower madness for collecting and discovering orchids.Wealthy orchid fanatics of the 19th century sent explorers and collectors to almost every part of the world in search of new varieties and species of orchids.
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The painting is part of a private collection but was on display from 14 November 2014 to 29 March 2015 at the Leighton House Museum in London as part of the exhibition A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum, the first time since Alma-Tadema's memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1913, that it has ...
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The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in between the early 1860s and mid to late 1890s, [1] centering taboo material shocking to its readers as a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.
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