Victorian

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Openings have been created in fences and walls, including a passage drilled through a thick Victorian boundary, allowing the animals to move freely between neighbouring spaces.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

Lead author Dr. Barbara Cardoso, from Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food and the Victorian Heart Institute, said the results add to growing evidence linking highly processed foods to poorer brain health.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

John Ruskin, a Victorian art critic, raged at how the division of labor broke down traditional communities and turned people into automatons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The library was red brick, Victorian, sitting self-importantly at the top of a hill.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz