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Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation?

Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs.

A very small bear, from darkest Peru, is found on Paddington Station by the Brown family who take him home to live with them.

In 1887, at the age of just 18, intellectually and artistically gifted American Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick.

Was Barbie was the first feminist doll? She always worked in interesting positions, never married, never had a child, and never did house work.

Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University in the fall, Tappan Adney, at the age of 18, embar

Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence

As the Morning Rose battled through an Arctic storm, its passengers are suffering from sea sickness, all except one who is dead.

William Shakespeare lived at a time when the medieval world — a world of magic, astrology, witchcraft, and superstition of all kinds — was just beginning to give way to more modern ways of thinking

When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion.

In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work.

The adventures of Anne Wicklow continue when she is employed to care for the lonely young Maurie at her home, an isolated castle set high on an Irish cliff.

Lorna Drew thought her partner was carrying his absent-minded professor status too far, until, two years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease.

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man.

Jack's anecdotes from the Murchison, the Kimberley and the metropolitan area as an Aboriginal pastoral worker.