The Victorians loved highland scenery, and this was the hard stuff: Scotland turned up to 11.
The Victorians were outstanding geologists, and there are good reserve estimates back to 1864.
Like much of Britain's other infrastructure, many flood defences were built by the Victorians.
Meanwhile tobacco has proved itself a more useful substance than even the Victorians realised.
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It was like any moment you expected some Victorians to wander in with their cups of tea.
In his attempt to brighten up the monochrome image of the Victorians, Mr Gay sometimes strays into dubious territory.
Surprisingly, Mr Gay sees the main source of misinformation as the Victorians themselves.
Even, comparable to the folk tale of Victorians putting trousers on pianos so no one could see the legs.
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He said he did not think that starting with the Victorians and skipping backwards and forwards was an effective approach.
Yet the Victorians built railways and city halls for their descendants in what was one of Britain's most optimistic eras.
Homes with floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights are joining the brick row houses and Victorians that have long lined the city's streets.
It is close by the Castro and the Mission, but it filled with yummy mummies and the stroller set, sidewalk cafes and lovely old Victorians.
He reckons that its development had more to do with the needs of sporty Victorians and that two garments informed the design of the suit jacket.
In 1998 David Blunkett, then the education secretary, paid tribute to the self-made Victorians, who educated themselves out of poverty in libraries, clubs and workers' institutes.
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William Acton's apparently scholarly works on the absence of the sexual feelings in women, for instance, have given too much ammunition to critics of the Victorians.
She said the letters proved Victorians - and in particular Victorian men - were "not as stern or detached from their families as is often thought".
That comment is almost sure to rile up Victorians, Western Australians, Tasmanians and South Australians, many of whom will be devotees of the rival code, Aussie Rules (AFL).
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Mr Stannard said his team were also trying to introduce new rare varieties and different plants that people had not seen before to carry on what the Victorians are were doing.
And Prof Horne, the author of Sleepfaring: A journey through the science of sleep, says the idea that Victorians got lots of sleep and had a better work-life balance is a myth.
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"Wrecks and Casualties" was a regular department in each issue of The Times sixteen accidents were recorded on December 8th and among the Victorians there was a general fascination with tales of great tragedies at sea.
Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.
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