Sedan chairs carried wealthy people around Edinburgh, particularly in the City's Old Town, where the tightly packed houses made some of the streets too narrow to allow a carriage to pass along them.
A tiny Fabergé sedan chair that was bought for £75 nearly a century ago has sold at auction for £380,000. The "exceptionally rare" gold, jade and rock crystal model was acquired in the 1920s by ...
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The oldest Taoist temple in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown organised a grand prayer session after a 76-year hiatus, to commemorate ...
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One such task is maintaining the nine sedan chairs, carrying an urn representing each of the nine deities, during the processions. Volunteers setting up a sedan chair on Sept 26 at the S9 Building ...
Late in the afternoon one day, I saw a white sedan stop by my mailbox on the other side of the road with its blinker on as ...
Ox-drawn carriages that picked up passengers and charged according to distance came first in China, followed by donkeys, sedan chairs and, much later, rickshaws In Hong Kong ride hailing is still ...
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Two incidents of ballot boxes being set on fire early Monday morning in Portland, Oregon, and nearby Vancouver, Washington, ...
The sedan chair first appeared in London for hire in 1634. During the 18th century the private sedan chair was a frequent site in Britain. The sedan chair carried the ladies of Tenby to balls and ...
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the ...