Victorian

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Residents organized “porcupine patrols” to protect their gardens, amid homes with Victorian fish-scale shingles and Craftsman details.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 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

Airship captains and Victorian inventors gather Down Under.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

In the kitchen of a Victorian house near the center of town, Major Nancy Jaax, a veterinarian in the United States Army, stood at a counter making dinner for her children.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston