(Bryson, Bill. At Home: A Short History of Private Life. New York: Doubleday, 2010.)
In 1730, Queen Caroline of Anspach, the industrious and ever improving wife of King George II...ordered the diversion of the little River Westbourne in London to make a large pond in the middle of Hyde Park. The pond, called the Serpentine,...was the first manmade pond in the world designed not to look manmade." (255)
