Alice Liddell

                                                                  

 Alice Liddel was born May 4th, 1852 to Henry and Lorina Liddel in Westminster London. She was the 4th of ten children. When Alice was  4 Years old her family moves to Oxford where her family met Charles Dodgson hes better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll in 1862 rowing down the Thames river from Oxford to Godstew for a picnic Alice asked Charles to tell her and her sister Edith and Lorina a story. The story was about a girl named Alice who followed a white rabbit down a rabbit hole to the wonderful world of wonderland  The relationship only lasted till 1863 no one sure why the Liddells and Dodgson stopped talking. it's speculated that Dodgson wanted to marry the eleven-year-old Alice but her parents may have thought he wasn't good enough for her.  Dogson wrote it under the name “underground” and sent it to  an author friend eventually changing the title to “Alice’s Adventures in Under Ground”

The Resolute Desk

 In 1848 the HMS Resolute set sail to find Sir John Franklin who got lost trying to find a northwest passage for the British government the resolute became trapped in ice and was abandoned in 1854 but was recovered by an American whaler in 1956 she was returned to Queen Victoria. The wood from the HMS Resolute was used by cabinet makers who were hired by the British government to make three desks the first a gift to the  American president Rutherford B Hayes from Queen Victoria. Seven presidents have used the desk either in the oval office or in their private study. The second desk is smaller called the queen victoria desk or the Grinnell desk gifted to the widow of Henry Grinnell in 1880 and is in the New Bedford whaling museum in Massachusetts. The third desk is a writing desk that was commissioned  by queen victoria and is part of the royal collection