Chester Castle | ... the local ward is the City ward electing 3 councillors. A small area around | remains a civil parish of Chester Castle. The Member of Parliament for the ... |
Royal Palace of Mafra | ... fort to tame the upper nobility, João V built his own Versailles, the grand | |
Museum of Puerto Rican Music | The | , located at the Serrallés-Nevárez family residence in downtown Ponce, ill ... |
Fountains Abbey | ... he survive a serious illness. He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of | land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in Lancashire) o ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... ng a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and George V) at | in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founded. The Ligue Internatio ... |
Historic Royal Palaces | ... and a major tourist attraction. It is cared for by an independent charity, | which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown |
Oakleigh Historic Complex | ... nd material culture and is housed in the historic Old City Hall (1857). The | features three house museums that interpret the lives of people from three ... |
William Howard Taft National Historic Site | ... s of these types of parks include Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and | |
Jerash | ... forced into the northern corner of Jordan. They relocated near the town of | , near the border with Syria. With the help of Munib Masri, a pro-Palestin ... |
Plassenburg | ... however, their residence and the centre of the territory was the castle of | in Kulmbach. The town of Bayreuth developed slowly and was affected time a ... |
Barad-dûr | ... F of The Return of the King. These include Lugbúrz, meaning "Dark Tower" ( | ), snaga, meaning "slave", and ghâsh "fire". The name Nazgûl is a combinat ... |
Senigallia | ... apse. Cesare called for a reconciliation, but imprisoned his condottieri in | , a feat described as a "wonderful deceiving" by Paolo Giovio, and had the ... |
Salian | After many changes in ownership between the Ottonian and | noble families, it was the Counts of Sayn, Diez and Wied who finally manag ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | ... edieval churches with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: | , Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, ... |
Pavia | ... m a marked feature in Leo IX's pontificate. After presiding over a synod at | , he joined Henry III in Saxony and accompanied him to Cologne and Aachen. ... |
Königsberg Castle | ... citizens could only enter with special permission. In 1967 the remnants of | were demolished on the orders of Leonid Brezhnev to make way for a new "Ho ... |
castle | ... named after a village in County Waterford, Ireland, noted for its beautiful | . The name for Lismore Township was suggested by Father C. J. Knauf of Adr ... |
Pavia | ... Verona, while the Duchy of Milan annexed a number of nearby areas including | and Parma |
Pitti Palace | ... uenced by the decorative style da Cortona devised for the decoration of the | in Florence, which influenced his style Louis XIV at Versailles. The quadr ... |
Cecilienhof | ... hrough tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss | in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of ... |
Tiryns | Mycenae and | are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilizatio ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... hat the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in | , close to his friend William Pitt |
Lambaesis | ... umidia Militiana, "Military Numidia", with capital at the legionary base of | . Subsequently however, Emperor Constantine the Great reunited the two pro ... |
Lugdunum | ... nic–Roman–Berber and Syrian descent, was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus in | , Gaul (now Lyon, France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus ... |
Argos | ... the trident, support the statement that the mother cities were Troezen and | . The inhabitants appear to have accepted Anthes, a son of Poseidon, as th ... |
La Fortaleza | ... and the United States. Among the uprising's main objective was to attack " | " (the Governors mansion) and the United States Federal Court House Buildi ... |
Uffizi | ... owerful family in Florence from the 15th to the 18th century. Nearby is the | Gallery, one of the finest art museums in the world – founded on a large b ... |
Palazzo Pitti | ... with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, | , Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refe ... |
Fountains Abbey | ... n the border of a stream; often with the buildings extending over it, as at | . These valleys, now so rich and productive, had a very different appearan ... |
Visegrád | ... his plans were discovered and he was imprisoned by the King in the Tower of | until 15 August 1083, when on the occasion of the canonization of István I ... |
Hogwarts | ... e first two Harry Potter films, in which the Divinity School doubles as the | hospital wing and Duke Humfrey's Library as the Hogwarts library. In The N ... |
Latrun | ... uarters, and Tegart Fort, a fortified police station (today the location of | ). One relatively complex operation was overtaking of the governmental rad ... |
city wall | In the 14th century the main churches of Hanover were built, as well as a | with three city gates. The beginning of industrialization in Germany led t ... |
Mycenae | | and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric ... |
Kerak | ... aynald access to the Red Sea. He became notorious for his wanton cruelty at | , often having his enemies and hostages flung from its castle walls to be ... |
Vienna | ... f Germany and the end of the war, Renner set up a Provisional Government in | with other politicians from the three revived parties Social Democratic Pa ... |
Palazzo Medici Riccardi | ... rescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, | , Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refectories; the "Certosa". I ... |
Clarendon Palace | King Henry II presided over the assemblies at | on 30 January 1164 of most of the higher English clergy. In sixteen consti ... |
Osaka castle | ... 5 km race starts from Nagai Stadium, runs through Nakanoshima, Midōsuji and | park, and returns to the stadium. Another yearly event held at Nagai Stadi ... |
Traquair House | ... town include Robert Smail's Printing Works and St. Ronans Wells, and nearby | . Popular tourist activities in the area include golfing (the town has a 9 ... |
Prüm Abbey | In 855, when Lothair was on his deathbed at | , he divided his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To ... |
Royal Palace of Aranjuez | ... in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of the | . In the 16th century, San Lorenzo de El Escorial was built and became ano ... |
Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali | ... Palazzo Davanzati, which houses the museum of the Old Florentine House; the | , designed in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1871; the Palazzo Spini Feroni, ... |
Palazzo Davanzati | ... s private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, | ; monasteries, cloisters, refectories; the "Certosa". In the archeological ... |
White House | ... es, including President Woodrow Wilson, the first Southerner elected to the | since the War. (Note: He imposed racial segregation in federal agencies an ... |
Bonn | ... hours in the foyers and grounds of the Beethovenhalle auditorium complex in | , before, after, and during a group of (in part simultaneous) concerts of ... |
Mainz | ... centre, runs through the southern part of Wiesbaden and ends in the north ( | ). The Bundesautobahn 671 (A 671) is a very short motorway in the southeas ... |
Wrae Tower | ... were as follows: Fruid, Hawkshaw, Oliver, Polmood, Kingledoors, Mossfennan, | , Quarter, Stanhope, Drumelzier, Tinnies, Dreva, Stobo, Dawyck, Easter Hap ... |
Presidential Palace | In 1912, Syrians residing in Haiti participated in a plot in which the | was destroyed. On more than one occasion, French, US, German and British f ... |
Casina Pio IV | ... ent is the microbiologist Werner Arber. The Academy is headquartered in the | at the heart of the |
Old Constitution House | ... ut. In 1777, the signers of the Constitution of the Vermont Republic met at | , a tavern at the time, to declare independence from the British Empire (t ... |
Radio City Music Hall | In May 2008, Ross headlined at New York City's | 's 'Divas with Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers ... |
The Crystal Palace | ... p the space planning in interiors as well as the fenestration of buildings. | is the supreme example of the use of sheet glass in a new and innovative s ... |
Beacon Theatre | ... 003, a similar tenth anniversary special was taped in New York City's famed | and later made available on DVD |
Senigallia | ... twinned with: Sens, France; Lörrach, Germany; Lakewood, Colorado, USA; and | , Italy |
Dáil Éireann | Lynch remained on in | as a TD until his retirement from politics at the 1981 general election |
Nostell Priory | ... itarist. Jugg's first appearance with the band live was when they headlined | rock festival held in West Yorkshire on 24 August 1984. The somewhat confu ... |
Sachsenhausen | ... eptember 1941 and interned in concentration camps at Grini in Norway and at | in Germany in August, 1944. After the war, Gerhardsen formed the interim g ... |
Sandringham House | ... residence, the Union Flag is flown at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and | , whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at Holyrood ... |
Beacon Theatre | ... in the Children's Benefit Concert, a charity concert that took place at the | in New York. Aaliyah also became the spokesperson for Tommy Hilfiger Corpo ... |
Arundel House | ... rity on political-military conflict". Since 1997 its headquarters have been | , in London |
Lugdunum Batavorum | It is true that Leiden is an old city, its connection with Roman | is true though it is actually near the close-by town of Katwijk, whereas t ... |
Tewkesbury Abbey | ... director of the Tallis Scholars and Benjamin Nicholas, director of music at | A spire from the chapel has resided in Pavilion Garden VI of the Universit ... |
Coca, Segovia | ... e, which starred Richard Harris as Arthur, and which featured the Castle of | as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfr ... |
Tutbury Castle | ... , Henry's court divided almost all its time among Kenilworth, Leicester and | for the purposes of protection. Kenilworth remained an important Lancastri ... |
George Eastman House | ... at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, which traveled to the | in Rochester, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. MOMA e ... |
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi | ... ro Lorenzetti and Simone Martini worked shoulder to shoulder at Assisi. The | includes a number of artistic works. Simone Martini's 1317 fresco there re ... |
St Donat's Castle | ... very year, including Barry Island Pleasure Park, Vale of Glamorgan Railway, | , Cosmeston Lakes Country Park and Cosmeston Medieval Village and many mor ... |
Artek | ... ending time with Nikita Khrushchev. Robeson also visited Young Pioneer camp | before returning to the UK |
Vienna | ... n devastated by the French in the war of the Palatinate succession. Besides | (residence of the Emperor) and Regensburg (seat of the Imperial Diet) Wetz ... |
Palazzo Medici | ... an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, inspired by the | , but with more harmonious proportions. Today the palace is used for inter ... |
Kremlin | ... ay 1896 that the coronation of Nicholas and Alexandra took place inside the | in Moscow. The following day, tragedy struck the coronation celebrations w ... |
Monastery of Saint Anthony | File:St. Anthony's Monastery 2006.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Historic Royal Palaces | ... country's most popular tourist attractions. It is cared for by the charity | and is protected as a World Heritage Site |
Minas Tirith | The Witch-king practiced black magic, and used it to break the gates of | . Tolkien said of the Nazgûl ". . . their chief weapon was terror. This wa ... |
Traquair House | ... ". It is said that a son of King Malcolm IV of Scotland (who was staying at | on a hunting trip), drowned accidentally in a deep pool at the confluence ... |
Windsor Castle | ... monarch is not in residence, the Union Flag is flown at Buckingham Palace, | and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland ... |
Edo Castle | ... as Ii Naosuke, who was assassinated in 1860 outside the Sakuradamon Gate of | (Sakuradamon incident) |
Cologne | ... er, Betty Oppenheim, was the daughter of the banker Salomon Oppenheim, from | . Hertz's father and paternal grandparents converted from Judaism to Chris ... |
Fossombrone | ... ntefeltro and Giovanni Maria da Varano returned to Urbino and Camerino, and | revolted. The fact that his subjects had enjoyed his rule thus far meant t ... |
Buckingham Palace | When the monarch is not in residence, the Union Flag is flown at | , Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Stan ... |
St. James's Palace | ... pton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Along with | , it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many owned by Henry V ... |
Ottonian | As allies of the Carolingian kings and the empire of their | successors, the Obotrites fought from 808 to 1200 against the kings of Den ... |
Sunninghill Park | ... r the asking price – via offshore companies, for the Duke's Surrey mansion, | , with undue ease |
monastery of Cluny | ... orking from the extensive documentary sources surviving from the Burgundian | , as well as the dioceses of Mâcon and Dijon, Duby excavated the complex s ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | Florence contains several palaces and buildings from various eras. The | is the town hall of Florence and also an art museum. This large Romanesque ... |
Indiana Senate | ... presentatives by a small margin, though Republicans retained control of the | |
Palace of Fontainebleau | ... the transformation of the royal country house into a true royal palace, the | . This was accomplished by the great builder-king, Francis I (1494–1547), ... |
Hulne Priory | ... on, Northumberland is an example of a so-called vicar's pele and the one at | is in the grounds of the priory. Hawkshaw, ancestral home of the Porteous ... |
Rapallo | ... as for Zarathustra first came to him while walking on two roads surrounding | , according to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche in the introduction of Thomas C ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... e Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, at | to discuss religion, society and journalism, among other issues, in front ... |
Red House | ... became subject to an Enclosure Act. In 1859 architect Philip Webb designed | for the artist, reforming designer and socialist William Morris on the wes ... |
Esztergom | ... Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at | -Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried. His nobles and his su ... |
Berkeley Castle | ... question. In due course, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward moved by night to | , where he died shortly afterwards. Isabella continued to use Kenilworth a ... |
Arundel Castle | ... rshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is | in Sussex, although the title refers to the county of Norfolk. The current ... |
Minas Morgul | ... aptured it and acquired its palantír for Sauron. The city thereafter became | , the stronghold of the Nazgûl. Sauron returned to Mordor in 2942 and decl ... |
Ganina Yama | ... urovsky Note. Initially the bodies were thrown down a disused mine-shaft at | , 12 miles (19 km) north of Yekaterinburg. A short time later they were re ... |
Pitti Palace | ... Corridor is another gallery, built connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the | passing by the Uffizi and over the Ponte Vecchio. The Galleria dell' Accad ... |
Nijmegen | ... long the Sint-Jansbeek. Arnhem arose on the location where the road between | and Utrecht/Zutphen split. Seven streams provided the city with water, and ... |
L.A. Live | ... portion of West 11th Street between Figueroa Street and Georgia Street (now | Way) to Chick Hearn Court. This street currently runs alongside Staples Ce ... |
Balmoral Castle | ... in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at Holyrood Palace and | |
Crotone | ... on engraved in Punic and Greek upon bronze tablets in the temple of Juno at | , he sailed back to Africa. These records were later quoted by Polybius. H ... |
Audunborg | ... died in 1302. He was a Middle Ages nobleman who lived in Jølster and built | , one of only two private stone castles in Norway. On his seals, he used a ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ed to the princes. On the orders of Charles II the remains were reburied in | . In 1933, the grave was opened to see if modern science could cast any li ... |
Torthorwald | ... stav Fleischer. Within a few miles of Dumfries are the villages of Tinwald, | and Mouswald all of which were settled by vikings |
dissolution of the monasteries | ... Leland, the antiquary, in the 1540s. It probably became available after the | , in which the property of many religious houses was confiscated and sold. ... |
Bruce Castle | ... Sir Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur) was a family member. The castle alludes to | located 400 yards from the ground and which now houses a museum. The trees ... |
Taliesin West | ... r 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at | in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. During this time, ... |
Dol Guldur | ... ed himself openly in 2951. Two or three of the Nazgûl were sent to garrison | , his fortress in Mirkwood |
White House | ... significant importance year after year. Diwali was first celebrated in the | in 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 200 ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... e until Gay's death, which took place on December 4, 1732. He was buried in | . The epitaph on his tomb is by Pope, and is followed by Gay's own mocking ... |
Barad-dûr | ... , and the Olog-hai, and the more "debased" form used by the soldiery of the | at the end of the Third Age |
St. James's Palace | After the ruling, he was led from | , where he was confined, to the Palace of Whitehall, where an execution sc ... |
Schönau Abbey | ... monastery. The first reference to Heidelberg can be found in a document in | dated to 1196. This is considered the founding date for Heidelberg. In 115 ... |
Christ Church | Philip was educated at Shrewsbury School and | , Oxford. In 1572 he was elected to Parliament as Member of Parliament for ... |
Castel Sant'Angelo | ... n Cesare was planning the conquest of Tuscany. While he was convalescing in | , his troops controlled the conclave. The new pope, Pius III, had Cesare a ... |
Monastery of Saint Anthony | File:MonasteroAntonio2.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Castell Coch | In addition to Cardiff Castle, | (Red Castle) is located in Tongwynlais, in the north of the city. The curr ... |
White House | ... rash the airplane in Washington, D.C.; destroying either the Capitol or the | |
Vienna | ... 72. The Fatah subgroup Black September hijacked a Sabena flight on route to | and forced it to land at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Isra ... |
Wolterton | ... rge estates and grand country houses at Blickling, Felbrigg, Mannington and | , which are important tourist attractions |
Holyrood Palace | ... ngham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at | and Balmoral Castle |
Fulda | ... 3 (A 3), Cologne to Würzburg, and the Bundesautobahn 66 (A 66), Rheingau to | , meet. With approximately 190,000 cars daily it is one of the most heavil ... |
Kensington Palace | ... nne's husband, Prince George of Denmark in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at | to find Anne with the prince's body. She pressed the heartbroken Queen to ... |
Palace of Whitehall | ... e ruling, he was led from St. James's Palace, where he was confined, to the | , where an execution scaffold had been erected in front of the Banqueting ... |
Under Secretary's Lodge | ... state residences. The Viceregal Lodge, the Chief Secretary's Lodge and the | . The Chief Secretary's Lodge, now called Deerfield, is the residence of t ... |
Bedford Castle | ... ny of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong castle. The new | was razed in 1224 and today only a mound remains |
Savigny Abbey | ... Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, who brought Benedictine monks from | in southern Normandy. In 1147, the abbey became part of the Cistercian Ord ... |
Sa Kaeo | ... to seek asylum. From there, they were transported to refugee camps such as | or Khao-I-Dang, the only camp allowing resettlement in countries such as t ... |
Sturdivant Hall | Museums in the city include | , the National Voting Rights Museum, Historic Water Avenue, Martin Luther ... |
Mycenae | ... r Chrysippus in their desire for the throne of Olympia. They took refuge in | , where they ascended to the throne in the absence of King Eurystheus, who ... |
Palais Stoclet | ... yzantine imagery. In 1904, he collaborated with other artists on the lavish | , the home of a wealthy Belgian industrialist, which was one of the grande ... |
Blickling | The town is close to large estates and grand country houses at | , Felbrigg, Mannington and Wolterton, which are important tourist attracti ... |
Houses of Parliament | In June 1835, when the competition was announced for designs for new | , the terms asked for designs either in the Gothic or the Elizabethan styl ... |
Camp David | ... d States President Jimmy Carter invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at | to negotiate a final peace. The talks took place from September 5–17, 1978 ... |
Palace of Blachernae | On July 11, the Crusaders took positions opposite the | on the northwest corner of the city. Their first attempts were repulsed, b ... |
Carson Mansion | ... development of Victorian architecture built in the nation. The magnificent | on 2nd and M Streets, is perhaps the most spectacular Victorian in the nat ... |
the Palace | ... sons, commenting "I’ve nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at | once upon a time". He stated that his "cultural starting point" was "off c ... |
Fort Thüngen | ... c Jean, commonly known as the Mudam. Drawing from the original shape of the | walls where the museum was located, Pei planned to remove a portion of the ... |
Moscow Kremlin | ... vent on 6 September. The Monastery of the Miracle (Chudov Monastery) in the | , where the Russian Tsars were baptized, was dedicated to the Feast of the ... |
Felbrigg | The town is close to large estates and grand country houses at Blickling, | , Mannington and Wolterton, which are important tourist attractions |
Schönau Abbey | ... me, the bishopric of Worms extended its influence into the valley, founding | in 1142. Modern Heidelberg can trace its roots to this 12th century monast ... |
Zarqa | ... entions in 1977. He faced the first terrorist attack on a Swissair plane in | , Jordan in 1970. After retiring, he gave his opinion on major occasions i ... |
Bennett Place | ... m Station) at the home of James and Nancy Bennett, a farmhouse now known as | . The two generals met three times on April 17, 18th, and finally on the 2 ... |
Vienna | Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Förster; November 13, 1911, | – October 2, 2002, Pescadero, California) was an Austrian American scienti ... |
Greve in Chianti | ... ded in the new Chianti Classico area added in Chianti to their name-such as | which amended its name in 1972. Wines labeled Chianti Classico come from t ... |
Voruta | ... llies attacked Mindaugas' warriors and the Livonian Order's crossbow-men in | Castle. The attack failed, and Tautvilas' forces retreated to defend thems ... |
Carey Mansion | ... lice Station. The Collinwood stand-in mansion used for the TV series is the | in Newport, Rhode Island, until August 2009 used by Salve Regina Universit ... |
Windsor Castle | Charles was moved to Hurst Castle at the end of 1648, and there after to | . In January 1649, in response to Charles's defiance of Parliament even af ... |
Tower of London | ... 1483 Edward, arriving in London for his coronation, was accommodated in the | , then a royal residence. Richard at that point was with his mother in san ... |
January 25, 1899 | The third Ponce fire of large proportions occurred on | . The fire was fought by a group of firefighters amongst whom was Pedro Sa ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152. It was disestablished during the | under the auspices of Henry VIII |
Lambaesis | ... . To the south in the interior military roads led to Theveste (Tebessa) and | (Lambessa) with extensive Roman remains, connected by military roads with ... |
Vienna | ... n-Ernestinum Grammar School and, in 1683, participated in the liberation of | which had been besieged by the Turks. To commemorate this feat, he had the ... |
Domus Aurea | ... ized much of the area to add to his personal domain. He built the grandiose | on the site, in front of which he created an artificial lake surrounded by ... |
Regensburg | ... mple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830–1847 near | , Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Sm ... |
Peterborough Cathedral | ... e seat of the Bishop of Peterborough since the Diocese was created in 1541. | is one of the most intact large Norman churches in England and is renowned ... |
Chapultepec Castle | ... ad been taken by cadet Juan Escutia to his death after leaping with it from | to deny the Americans the honor of capturing it. In a final act of defianc ... |
Cologne | ... over a synod at Pavia, he joined Henry III in Saxony and accompanied him to | and Aachen. He also summoned a meeting of the higher clergy in Reims in wh ... |
The Austonian | ... owntown area is looking more modern and dense. The city's tallest building, | , was topped out on September 17, 2009. Austin is currently undergoing a s ... |
Cinderella Castle | ... went on to design many iconic elements for Disney's theme parks, including | at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland, Space Mountain, and contributed ... |
Kensington Palace | ... Raphael. This style, rare in Britain until reintroduced by William Kent at | , consisted of foliage forms interwoven with mythical creatures, such as c ... |
Oronsay Priory | ... a variety of other monastic foundations with Columban associations, such as | or Iona, Inchcolm is considered the most likely source of the manuscript's ... |
Society Hill Towers | ... cus with the Society Hill project in central Philadelphia. Pei designed the | , a three-building residential block injecting cubist design into the 18th ... |
Nether Horsburgh Castle | ... yck, Easter Happrew, Lyne, Barnes, Caverhill, Neidpath, Peebles, Horsburgh, | , Cardrona |
Buchenwald concentration camp | ... ttempts to escape and was transferred first to Compiègne prison and then to | . Within the camp, he began to organize resistance, and again made a brief ... |
Pontigny Abbey | ... y this fresh demand, Edmund in the summer of 1240 retired to the Cistercian | in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, Thomas Becket and ... |
Kirkharle Hall | ... raft by serving as a gardener's boy at Sir William Loraine's modest seat at | . In 1739 he moved south, where his first landscape commission was for a n ... |
Croton | ... arentum (Τάρας), Epizephyrian Locri (Λοκροί Ἐπιζεφύριοι), Rhegium (Ῥήγιον), | (Κρότων), Thurii (Θούριοι), Elea (Ἐλέα), Nola (Νῶλα), Ancona (Ἀγκών), Syes ... |
Mycenae | ... uctures and inscriptions are similar to the early Greek urbanised centre at | in mainland Greece, adding weight to the hypothesis that the Philistines w ... |
House on the Rock | ... t, according to the Department of Tourism. Tourist destinations such as the | near Spring Green, Circus World Museum in Baraboo, and The Wisconsin Dells ... |
Ravenna | ... d frequent barbarian invasions, so the capital was moved from Mediolanum to | . In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Odoa ... |
Southwick House | ... re vital military embarkation points for the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944. | , just to the north of Portsmouth, had been chosen as the headquarters for ... |
Holy Trinity | ... ption locally and £166 was paid to St Katherine's Hospital and the prior of | in compensation |
Vienna | ... its early years, the university was modelled on those of Paris, Cologne and | . The university flourished in the 16th century due to the presence of fam ... |
Peterhof | ... projects of her favourite architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in | and Tsarskoye Selo. The Winter Palace and the Smolny Cathedral in Saint Pe ... |
Dr. Alvin L. Miller House | Charles City is the location of the | , a Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright |
House of Orange-Nassau | Using the name "W.A. van Buren", one of the less well-known titles of the | , he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, Princ ... |
Arezzo | Leonardo Bruni was born in | , Tuscany circa 1370. Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leade ... |
Kinfauns | ... ow Dog released Unsurpassed Demos in 1991, featuring 22 songs from the 1968 | (Esher) demos, only some of which had been previously made public during t ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... on on 13 June 1625 in Canterbury. Charles was crowned on 2 February 1626 at | , but without his wife at his side due to the controversy. Charles and Hen ... |
Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial | ... e County. (The plantation is now operated as a historic museum known as the | ). He established a ferry on the Staunton River to connect Red Hill Planta ... |
Penshurst Place | Born at | , Kent, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. Hi ... |
Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite | File:MonasteroPaolo4.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Sondershausen | ... d a position as organist of the St. Trinitatis church (Trinitatiskirche) in | . Pachelbel initially accepted the invitation but, as a surviving autograp ... |
House of Glücksburg | ... xandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the | |
Palazzo Barberini | ... Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at | by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). Gian Lorenzo Bernini ... |
White Tower | ... nded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The | , which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conquer ... |
Castel Sant'Angelo | ... m about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the | ) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later P ... |
Middleton Place | ... eton died on June 13, 1784 in Charleston. He was entombed in the gardens at | , on Ashley River Road in Dorchester County, South Carolina |
Kennedy Compound | ... Kennedy suffered a seizure, and then another one as he was rushed from the | to Cape Cod Hospital and then by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospi ... |
Budapest | ... 45 and was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its | setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker ... |
Warwick Castle | ... widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at | |
Mycenae | ... enultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to | ; after him comes the Dorian usurper Phalces. Pausanias shares his source ... |
Grauman's Chinese Theatre | ... uring this time she was invited to leave her handprints in the forecourt of | |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the | from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusett ... |
Mycenae | For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, | , Tiryns, Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representative ... |
Chester Castle | Of the medieval city the most important surviving structure is | , particularly the Agricola Tower. Much of the rest of the castle has been ... |
Ashton Gifford | ... a close friendship with Vivien Hancock, headmistress of Greenways School at | , which his son George attended. The relationship provoked Hester to make ... |
Seanad Éireann | ... ent of Ireland, the Oireachtas. It is composed of the President of Ireland, | as the upper house, and Dáil Éireann as the lower house. The President res ... |
Áras an Uachtaráin | ... dinary." He and Marie were immediately whisked straight from the airport to | for champagne with the then President Mary Robinson |
Edo Castle | In 1634, during the Edo period, as the outer moat of the | was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on th ... |
Lidtke Mill | The town center originally existed a little farther to the north around the | on the Upper Iowa River, but moved south when the railroad came to town |
Čabraď | ... pper Hungarian (now Slovakian) noble family, who held the princely lands of | and Sitno in Slovakia, among others. The family's property was augmented b ... |
Tartus | ... olding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to | , Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli priso ... |
Elvaston Castle | ... 9 film Women in Love by Ken Russell had various scenes filmed in and around | , most notably the Greco-Roman wrestling scene, which was filmed in the ca ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... 20,000. The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occupied by | , on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location |
Vienna | ... in Apulia in Southern Italy (1640), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in | – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in ... |
Penrice Castle | ... wn as Landimore Castle), Oystermouth Castle, Oxwich Castle, Pennard Castle, | and |
Gorizia | ... the Central Powers in exchange for the unredeemed territories of Trentino, | , Trieste and Dalmatia, as well as the part of German Tyrol south of the m ... |
Hill-Stead Museum | Just above the village, off Mountain Road, lies the | . The estate, completed in 1901 and designed for Alfred Atmore Pope by his ... |
Palacio de la Magdalena | ... er became the favoured summer residence of King Alfonso XIII, who built the | as the residence of the royal family during the holidays. The city gained ... |
Lambeth Palace | The Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence in London is | |
Cologne | ... enerale. In its early years, the university was modelled on those of Paris, | and Vienna. The university flourished in the 16th century due to the prese ... |
Oxwich Castle | ... the Gower Peninsula: (also known as Landimore Castle), Oystermouth Castle, | , Pennard Castle, Penrice Castle and |
Mycenae | ... ounded a race of kings that led to Danae, the mother of Perseus, founder of | . Thus this founding myth of Argos also asserts that Argos was the metropo ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | He also has a residence next to | on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace |
Piombino | ... ke of Romagna. Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of | to his new lands |
Palazzo Pitti | ... rent name when the Medici duke's residence was moved across the Arno to the | . It is linked to the Uffizi and the Palazzo Pitti through the Corridoio V ... |
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre | ... areer, resulting in a three-day American Cinematheque retrospective held at | in Hollywood and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California, in April 20 ... |
Hen Domen | ... he River Thames. As was the case at other castles, such as the 11th-century | , the innermost ward was probably filled with timber buildings from the To ... |
Warwick Castle | ... ndures at Croome Court (where he also designed the house), Blenheim Palace, | , Harewood House, Bowood House, Milton Abbey (and nearby Milton Abbas vill ... |
Vienna | Von Foerster was born in 1911 in | , Austria-Hungary, as Heinz von Förster. He studied physics at the Technic ... |
Palais des Papes | Older than the | in Avignon, the Palais de la Berbie, formerly the Bishops' Palace of Albi, ... |
Mainz | ... ally every 15 minutes schedule. It provides access to nearby cities such as | , Rüsselsheim, Frankfurt, Hanau and Offenbach am Main and smaller towns th ... |
Bellver Castle | ... Majorca, championed the construction of statues and monuments in the city: | , the churches of St. Francesc and St. Domingo, reformed the Palace of Alm ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... following in the footsteps of his father, who had also been sent there) and | , where he gained a first class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and ... |
Palais des Papes | ... elied instead on the immensely strong fortifications of their palace, the " | ". This immense Gothic building, with walls 17–18 feet thick, was built 13 ... |
Cluny Abbey | The town grew up around the Benedictine | , founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac inf ... |
Mycenae | ... r. Because of the murder, Hippodamia, Atreus, and Thyestes were banished to | , where Hippodamia is said to have hanged herself |
Vienna | ... ted States where the Waldorf Salad was first created or the Hotel Sacher in | , Austria, home of the Sachertorte. Others have achieved fame by associati ... |
Harold C. Bradley House | ... Unitarian Meeting House, is in the adjacent suburb of Shorewood Hills.) The | , designed collaboratively by Louis H. Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie i ... |
Vienna | ... s interrupted by the revolutionary incidents of March 1848, when he fled to | . There he was appointed head of the Institute for Experimental Physics at ... |
Vienna | Auer von Welsbach was born in | on 1 September 1858 to Therese and Alois Auer. Alois, ennobled in 1860, wa ... |
Argos | ... translated as "nonparticipant" or "uncooperative", was a legendary king of | during the war of the Seven Against Thebes |
William H. Seward House | ... l Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr. Sylvester Willard Mansion. The | and Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall are National Historic Land ... |
La Haye Sainte | ... in front of the rest of Wellington's line, was the farmhouse and orchard of | , which was garrisoned with 400 light infantry of the King's German Legion ... |
Haddon Hall | ... dy Jane by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter, has scenes filmed at | |
Knossos | ... etc., must be consulted. The most representative site explored up to now is | (see Crete) which has yielded not only the most various but the most conti ... |
Wilberforce House | ... ace was acquired by the city corporation in 1903 and, following renovation, | in Hull was opened as Britain's first slavery museum. Wilberforce Memorial ... |
Harewood House | ... Court (where he also designed the house), Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, | , Bowood House, Milton Abbey (and nearby Milton Abbas village), in traces ... |
Mirandola | Giovanni was born at | , near Modena, the youngest son of Francesco I, Lord of Mirandola and Coun ... |
Buildwas Abbey | ... abbey became part of the Cistercian Order and therefore a daughter house of | in Shropshire. Earlier on, they had received the manor of West Kirby from ... |
Salzburg | ... oniface organised the Bavarian church and founded or restored bishoprics at | , Freising, Regensburg, and Passau |
Irbid | ... amascus, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; Sana'a; Maskat; Amman, Jordan; Widhat, Maan, | , Beirut, Sidon, Lebanon; Bethlehem, Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, Ramallah and ... |
Blenheim Palace | ... His work still endures at Croome Court (where he also designed the house), | , Warwick Castle, Harewood House, Bowood House, Milton Abbey (and nearby M ... |
La Fortaleza | ... he state of the union in the U.S. The official residence of the governor is | |
Grice House Museum | The Murphy Museum and the | feature history of the area. Wagener County Park, just south on M-25, and ... |
White House | ... Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the | on several occasions; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eise ... |
Washington Place | ... and ammunition and some potentially evidential documents on the premises of | , Liliuokalani's private residence implicating her in the effort to restor ... |
Minturnae | ... also occasionally referred to as the son of Marica. The sacred forest near | was dedicated to Marica. A lake nearby was also named after her |
Hampton Court Palace | In 1764 he was appointed Master Gardener at | , succeeding John Greening and residing at the Wilderness House |
Chatsworth House | ... oday the Library is devoid of books, the collections having been removed to | , Derbyshire, or in the Royal Institute of British Architects library, whi ... |
Sorgenfri Palace | Prince Frederick was born on 11 March 1899 at | in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather Kin ... |
Bolzaneto | ... d. The Paganinis sought refuge in their country property in Romairone, near | . By 1800, Paganini and his father traveled to Livorno, where Paganini pla ... |
Vienna | ... t not limited to a national anthem and the first detailed map of Greece, in | . He was later assassinated by the Ottoman authorities in 1798. Other infl ... |
Christ Church Priory | ... He also revived his predecessor's dispute over setting up a church to rival | in Canterbury, which was only settled when the pope ordered him to abandon ... |
Ten Chimneys | | , the home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is located in Genesee |
Dumbarton Oaks | ... the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts after being moved from | . In the Dumbarton Oaks mosaic, the bust of Tethys—surrounded by fishes—is ... |
Tiryns | For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, Mycenae, | , Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representative site exp ... |
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion | ... ed on the Lyndhurst estate. This mansion was destroyed by fire in 1969. The | in South Norwalk, Connecticut, was also used for some scenes in House of D ... |
Vienna | ... the Swedish imbroglio; reconciled his imperial mistress with the courts of | and London; enabled Russia to assert herself effectually in Poland, Turkey ... |
Delhi Cantonment Board | ... n, East Delhi Municipal Corporation, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and | . The former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was recently trifurcated ... |
Assisi | ... is technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in | . A person who creates fresco is called a frescoist |
Castle of Good Hope | ... n quickly outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at the | , becoming the economic and cultural hub of the Cape Colony. Until the Wit ... |
Vienna | ... h Yuri Balashov, Ulf Andersson and Robert Hübner. He shared first at Baden, | in 1980, on 10½/15 with Alexander Beliavsky. He won his preliminary group ... |
Heidelberg Castle | ... uth bank of the Neckar, is long and narrow. It is dominated by the ruins of | , 80 metres above the Neckar on the steep wooded slopes of the Königstuhl ... |
White House | ... gress and the United States Supreme Court Building east of the Capitol; the | (on a line directly north of the Washington Monument), the National Archiv ... |
Vienna | After Operation Spring Awakening, the 6th SS Panzer Army withdrew towards | and was involved in the Vienna Offensive. The only major force to face the ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | In 1536, abbey life came to an end with the | during the reign of King Henry VIII. Its dissolution was made lawful by th ... |
Syrian Monastery | File:Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery2.jpg|Frescos at the | , Scetes, Egyp |
Royal Palace | An underground restaurant in Stockholm, close to the | is named after Sten Sture. In 1792 it was a prison, where the murderer of ... |
Holland House, Kensington | ... politician, Charles James Fox and the general Henry Edward Fox. Their home, | , was a social and political gathering place |
Palace of Versailles | ... ois de La Rochefoucauld as well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the | , Jean-Baptiste Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, ... |
Cologne | ... Gold" – in the Ruhr area in 1840, and the subsequent industrialization, the | –Minden Railway and the Gelsenkirchen Main Railway Station were opened. In ... |
Armsmear | ... n 1632, the Dutch established a trading post at Good Hope, near present day | in Hartford, depriving the Pequot of a monopoly in the area. The Dutch pos ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... land. Between 1535 and 1540, under Thomas Cromwell, the policy known as the | was put into effect. The veneration of some saints, certain pilgrimages an ... |
Beamish Hall | ... resent structure was built in the 18th century. It was the parish church of | , former home to the Eden, Joicey and Shafto families. There is a Methodis ... |
Palazzo Medici Riccardi | ... linked to the Uffizi and the Palazzo Pitti through the Corridoio Vasariano. | , designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo il Vecchio, of the Medic ... |
Vienna | ... it was bought by a Christian and eventually reached the imperial library at | |
Haddon Hall | ... einer, starring Cary Elwes, was filmed in Derbyshire and includes scenes at | and in the White Peak and Dark Peak |
Budapest | ... ngary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in | , Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, ... |
Inkerman Cave Monastery | The | marks the supposed place of Clement's burial in the Crimea. A year or two ... |
Headley Grange | Upon the suggestion of Fleetwood Mac, the band then moved to | , a remote Victorian house in East Hampshire, England, to conduct addition ... |
Etton | Ailsworth – Bainton – Barnack – Borough Fen – Castor – Deeping Gate – | – Eye – Eye Green – Glinton – Helpston – Marholm – Maxey – Newborough – No ... |
Leinster House | ... Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park, while both houses of the Oireachtas meet in | , a former ducal palace on Kildare Street. It has been the home of the Iri ... |
Solomonic dynasty | ... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the | |
Harlaxton Manor | ... s and high chimneys as in the Elizabethan style. Examples of this style are | in Lincolnshire (illustration), Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and San ... |
Salian dynasty | ... April 1054 – d. 14 March ca. 1105?) was a German princess, a member of the | and by her two marriages Queen of Hungary and Duchess of Poland renamed So ... |
Carson Mansion | ... undreds of significant Victorian homes, including the nationally recognized | , situated at the head of its Old Town Historic District. Eureka is also s ... |
Camp David | ... his passion for the game. He had a small, basic golf facility installed at | , and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Rob ... |
Vienna | ... s son was called John (János in Hungarian). This name appears in sources in | as either János Wass or János Lanthos. The former surname is his mother's ... |
Bowood House | ... also designed the house), Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, Harewood House, | , Milton Abbey (and nearby Milton Abbas village), in traces at Kew Gardens ... |
Westminster Abbey | When Richard II was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to | . This tradition began in at least the early 14th century and lasted until ... |
Budapest | Ferenc Molnár's Hungarian-language drama, Liliom, premiered in | in 1909. The audience was puzzled by the work, and it lasted only thirty-o ... |
Cologne | ... ntury. The town was in the middle of two trade roads, Heidenstrasse between | and Kassel and Heerstrasse between Frankfurt am Main and Soest. The bad ag ... |
Crystal Palace | In 1851, the Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park, London, for which the | was built. The exhibition was a great success and led Prince Albert, the P ... |
Khao-I-Dang | ... ylum. From there, they were transported to refugee camps such as Sa Kaeo or | , the only camp allowing resettlement in countries such as the United Stat ... |
Nijmegen | ... rect trains to Den Helder, Hoorn, Zaandam, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Ede, Arnhem, | , 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Heerlen, Haarlem, Leiden and Th ... |
Escorial Palace | ... he work of great and famous Flandresco Rogel. The 'Crucifixion', now in the | , was donated by Rogier to the Charterhouse of Scheut outside Brussels. In ... |
Skibo Castle | ... Series (he has since raced in IndyCar and NASCAR). The two were married at | , near Dornoch, Scotland, on December 12, 2001. She and her husband divide ... |
Mentmore Towers | ... Examples of this style are Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire (illustration), | in Buckinghamshire and Sandringham House in Norfolk, England |
Baume | ... by William, duke of Aquitaine and count of Auvergne, under Berno, abbot of | . He was succeeded by Odo, who is often regarded as the founder of the ord ... |
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre | American Beauty had its world premiere on September 8, 1999, at | in Los Angeles. Three days later, the film appeared at the Toronto Interna ... |
Salzburg | ... was invited to be a plenary speaker at the 2007 Quantum Mind conference in | , Austria, organized by Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizona) and Gustav ... |
Camp David | ... avid II "David", Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom | is named, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968 |
Chertsey Abbey | Epsom appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Evesham. It was held by | . Its domesday assets were: 11 hides; 2 churches, 2 mills worth 10 shillin ... |
Auchwitz | ... achaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the | es - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to ... |
Martinez Hacienda | In addition to the Taos museums, the | , a fortress occupied by Padre Martinez's family in the 1800s, provides ex ... |
St. James's Palace | ... s displeasure with Sarah Churchill, took place in Arbuthnot's apartments at | . The reasons for the choice of apartment and the degree of involvement of ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... yal Gold Medal in 1859. Knighted in 1872, he died in 1878 and was buried in | |
castle | ... a fief of the Shimazu daimyo, who ruled much of southern Kyūshū from their | at Kagoshima city |
St. James's Palace | ... s Dickson (a nurseryman), William Forsyth (Superintendent of the gardens of | and Kensington Palace), Charles Francis Greville (a Lord of the Admiralty) ... |
Dáil Éireann | ... omposed of the President of Ireland, Seanad Éireann as the upper house, and | as the lower house. The President resides in Áras an Uachtaráin in the Pho ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... d in Faversham Abbey; all three tombs are now lost, as a consequence of the | |
Regensburg | Despite Wallenstein's fall, the imperial forces recaptured | and were victorious in the Battle of Nördlingen (1634). The Swedish army w ... |
Tower of London | ... and his brother Edward, were declared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the | by the new king, Richard III, in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both Y ... |
Forbidden City | ... xchange. Jarre gave two performances, the first at the Meridian Gate of the | , and the second in Tiananmen Square. More than 15,000 spectators watched ... |
Cologne | Böll was born in | , Germany, to a Catholic, pacifist family that later opposed the rise of N ... |
Uffizi | ... enerations of artists, are gathered in the several museums of the town: the | Gallery, the Palatina gallery with the paintings of the "Golden Ages", the ... |
Time Warner Center | ... d by T.J. Gottesdiener, who designed 7 World Trade Center in New York City, | in New York City and Tokyo Midtown. Its publicised aim is to become the la ... |
Jenin | ... ; Widhat, Maan, Irbid, Beirut, Sidon, Lebanon; Bethlehem, Nablus, Tulkarem, | , Ramallah and Gaza, Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; T ... |
Gournia | ... sarlik, Mycenae, Phaestus, Hagia Triada, Tiryns, Phylakope, Palaikastro and | |
Syrian Monastery | File:Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery1.jpg|Frescos at the | , Scetes, Egyp |
Gandersheim | ... riage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia), Agnes (later Abbess of Quedlinburg and | ), Adelaide (by marriage Countess of Vohburg and Margravine of the Norther ... |
Palazzo Strozzi | ... of the Florence province and hosts museums and the Riccardiana Library. The | , an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, inspired by ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Park Lane. The offer of burial in | was declined by her relatives, and she is buried in the graveyard at St. M ... |
Monastery of San Francisco | The catacombs beneath the | in Lima, Peru also contain an ossuary |
Westminster Abbey | ... n, made from the same tree at Kedleston that had encased Mary, was taken to | and from there to his ancestral home, where he was interred beside Mary in ... |
Sandringham House | ... anor in Lincolnshire (illustration), Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and | in Norfolk, England |
Faversham Abbey | He was buried in | in Kent, which was founded by his parents. They too were buried in Faversh ... |
Harewood House | The village is mainly known for its vicinity to | , a stately home, and is also home to the UK's longest motorsport hillclim ... |
Coldingham Abbey | ... suggest that Cædmon’s death occurred at about the same time as the fire at | , an event dated in the E text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to 679, but af ... |
Coley Park | ... Ground until 1878, before moving on to Reading Cricket Ground (1878–1882), | (1882–1889) and Caversham Cricket Ground (1889–1896). Madejski Stadium rep ... |
San Juan de la Peña | ... al of Pamplona list them in this way, as well as four from the monastery of | . One charter from Pamplona, dated 29 September 1023, is witnessed by Sanc ... |
Torre Abbey | The first major building in Torquay was | , a Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1196. Torquay remained a minor ... |
Akershus Fortress | ... ia (now Oslo) in 1864 when Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at | . Edvard's mother died of tuberculosis in 1868, as did Munch's favorite si ... |
Áras an Uachtaráin | ... upper house, and Dáil Éireann as the lower house. The President resides in | in the Phoenix Park, while both houses of the Oireachtas meet in Leinster ... |
Minas Tirith | ... ortal eyes. Their black robes gave them visible form. During the assault on | , the leader of The Nine, the Witch-king of Angmar, cast back his hood to ... |
Lidtke Mill | The historic | converted into a museum is a popular attraction |
Elba | ... hew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino and Lord of the Isola d' | in 1634, having married the heiress, 30 March 1632 |
Salerno | ... d duchy and gave Radelchis his share with Benevento as his capital and gave | as a principality independent to Siconulf. Radelchis, now pacified, had no ... |
Buchenwald | ... estion. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the | s, the Auchwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they ar ... |
Catherine Deterding | ... s designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. In 1901 a donation of over £3,000 by | , the wife of the managing director and founder of the Shell Oil Company, ... |
Westminster | ... 15 September 1189 at Pipewell, with the consecration on 22 October 1189 at | . Also elected to bishoprics at this council were Godfrey de Lucy to the s ... |
Kensington Palace | ... ), William Forsyth (Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and | ), Charles Francis Greville (a Lord of the Admiralty) and Richard Anthony ... |
Mainz | ... e headquarters in preparation for future campaigns, either at Moguntiacum ( | , Germany), Augusta Treverorum (Trier, Germany), or Colonia Agrippina (Col ... |
Vienna | ... ld marshal resigned his command and became a member of the Aulic Council in | . He died in 1798 |
Danson House | ... Mayplace Road. The heath bordered Watling Street. In 1766 Sir John Boyd had | built in parkland (now Danson Park between Bexleyheath and Welling). In 18 ... |
St. Donat's Castle | After seeing photographs of | in Country Life magazine, the Welsh Vale of Glamorgan property was bought ... |
Merton Priory | Beginning when he was 10, Becket was sent as a student to | in England and later attended a grammar school in London, perhaps the one ... |
Argos | ... ysianassa, and Hyginus calls her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at | , along with Iphis and Amphiaraus, the husband of Adrastus's sister Eriphy ... |
Stirling Castle | ... ent of 1314, Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of | , which was commanded by Sir Philip Mowbray. Unable to make any headway, B ... |
Society Hill | The company continued its urban focus with the | project in central Philadelphia. Pei designed the Society Hill Towers, a t ... |
Kennedy Compound | Kennedy's body traveled a journey from the | in Hyannis Port, past numerous landmarks named after his family, to the Jo ... |
Knypersley Hall | ... possibly be taken from the nearby village of Knypersley near Biddulph, and | . Neighbouring Oldcastle, where Edwin Clayhanger went to school, is Newcas ... |
Marlborough House | ... of Wales. The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to | . As Princess of Wales, May accompanied her husband on trips to Austria-Hu ... |
Argos | For some centuries, Sicyon remained subject to | , whence its Dorian conquerors had come; as late as 500 BC, it acknowledge ... |
Dáil Éireann | Finglas is part of the Dublin North–West constituency for elections to | . For local elections, it is part of the Ballymun–Finglas local electoral ... |
Norwich Cathedral | ... (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of Bristol Cathedral in 1859 and | in 1860 neither of which resulted in a commission, and designed a pulpit f ... |
Old Summer Palace | ... is a park named after him and bust of Hugo stands near the entrance of the | in Beijing |
Thorney Abbey | ... ecclesiastical misconduct, and deposed several abbots, including Robert of | in 1195 and an abbot of St Mary's in the province of the Archbishop of Yor ... |
Ciudad Rodrigo | ... n set about re-taking the fortified frontier cities of Almeida, Badajoz and | . Whilst Wellington besieged Almeida, Masséna reformed his battered army a ... |
Cologne | ... ainz, Germany), Augusta Treverorum (Trier, Germany), or Colonia Agrippina ( | , Germany) |
Solomonic dynasty | ... s, including Amharic and Tigrinya. With the expansion of Ethiopia under the | , Amharic, previously a minor local language, spread throughout much of th ... |
Museo de la Historia de Ponce | The complete history of Ponce can be appreciated at the | , which opened in the city in 1992. It depicts the history of the city fro ... |
Vindobona | ... The war began in 166, when the Marcomanni overwhelmed the defences between | and Carnuntum, penetrated along the border between the provinces of Pannon ... |
Historic Royal Palaces | The Tower of London is cared for by an independent charity, | , which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown. In 1988, the ... |
Kinnaird Head | ... mained relatively quiet until 1787 when Fraserburgh Castle was converted to | Lighthouse, Scotland's first mainland lighthouse. In 1803, the original 15 ... |
Heidelberg Castle | ... ourist destination due to its romantic and picturesque cityscape, including | and the baroque style Old Town |
Tsarskoye Selo | ... her favourite architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in Peterhof and | . The Winter Palace and the Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg remain th ... |
Uffizi | ... From April to October, tourists outnumber local population. Tickets to the | and Accademia museums are regularly sold out and large groups regularly fi ... |
White Tower | ... he staircase leading to the chapel, during the course of renovations to the | . At that time, these were believed to have been the remains of the two pr ... |
Budapest | ... re at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (Magyar Képzomuvészeti Egyetem) in | . He joined a cavalry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, where he serv ... |
Peterhof | ... Petersburg and was approved for a telegraph between the imperial palace at | and the naval base at Kronstadt. However, the project was cancelled follow ... |
walls | ... tles. His innovations included the employment of fixed military camps (with | ); permanent sieges and "scorched earth" tactics, where soldiers burned ev ... |
Kovel | ... buildings coming into existence. In 1877 a railway connection to Warsaw and | was built, together with Lublin Station, which spurred industrial developm ... |
Château de Malmaison | ... Girodet's Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes, for Napoleon's | was one of the earliest. Girodet's old teacher David was puzzled and disap ... |
Vienna | ... e:Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche.JPG|Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, | , Austri |
Sepphoris | ... nd at Gadara, the third at Amathus, the fourth at Jericho, and the fifth at | in Galilee. |
St. James's Palace | ... crease his popularity with the English, and provided her with apartments at | . He also restored the Earl of Marlborough to all his offices and honours, ... |
Van Cortlandt Manor | ... nd granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of | that ultimately became Somers and Yorktown was known as the Middle Distric ... |
Bill Wilson House | ... f Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. East Dorset is the setting of the | and the Griffith Library |
Opéra | ... The crowning achievements of Louis XV’s reign were the construction of the | and the Petit Trianon (Verlet, 1985). Equally significant was the destruct ... |
Argos | ... n Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of | (see Melampus for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had ... |
Elba | Image:Pyrite-elba_hg.jpg|Crystal cluster from | , Ital |
Xanadu | ... y showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, where such locations as | (and some of Gregg Toland's famous 'deep focus' shots) were essentially cr ... |
Kinnaird Head | It is home to the famous | lighthouse/castle |
Pavia | ... acred. He then quashed some accusations against Pope Leo and held a Diet at | . He confirmed the usurping regent Peter as prince of Salerno in December ... |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 1.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Winter Palace | ... ect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo. The | and the Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg remain the chief monuments of ... |
Albertina, Vienna | ... two impressions of Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve (1504, British Museum and | ) which show the figures largely finished but the background with only the ... |
Kykuit | ... kefeller family estate of "Pocantico", in Westchester County, New York (see | ) |
Carnuntum | ... in 166, when the Marcomanni overwhelmed the defences between Vindobona and | , penetrated along the border between the provinces of Pannonia and Noricu ... |
Bristol Cathedral | ... ixon monument in York Minster (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of | in 1859 and Norwich Cathedral in 1860 neither of which resulted in a commi ... |
Hatfield House | ... ouse and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for | ). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor as Lord High Trea ... |
Uffizi | ... ern collections of the time—collections in large part the foundation of the | 's art holdings |
Château de Rambouillet | ... many, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in | . The six leaders agreed to an annual meeting organized under a rotating p ... |
Schifferstadt | Possibly the oldest house in the city of Frederick is | , built in 1756 by German settler Joseph Brunner. It is now the Schifferst ... |
Vernon Duke | ... usical relationship with his teacher was written by Gershwin's close friend | , also a Schillinger student, in an article for the Musical Quarterly in 1 ... |
Grauman's Chinese Theatre | ... mber 6, 2006 when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of | alongside those of other celebrated actors and entertainers |
Fairfield House | After his return to Ethiopia, he donated | to the city of Bath as a residence for the aged, until modified in the 199 ... |
Stourhead | ... red and collected, as Kenneth Woodbridge first observed in the landscape at | , a "Brownian" landscape with an un-Brownian circuit walk in which Brown h ... |
Norwich Cathedral | Norwich is a popular destination for a city break; attractions include | , the cobbled streets and museums of old Norwich, The Castle, Cow Tower, C ... |
Cologne | A collected edition of Balde's works in 4 vols was published at | in 1650; a more complete edition in 8 vols at Munich, 1729; also a good se ... |
Treasure Island Scout Reservation | ... Council, was assigned to serve as director of the council's summer camp at | on the Delaware River. He believed that the summer camp experience should ... |
Glastonbury Abbey | ... g boy, Dunstan studied under the Irish monks who then occupied the ruins of | . Accounts tell of his youthful optimism and of his vision of the abbey be ... |
Leonis Adobe | ... ian, hiking, and mountain biking trails. Nearby to the south is the pioneer | National Historic Landmark, with gardens and a historical Museum. It's acr ... |
dacha at Kuntsevo | ... suffered about 185,000 casualties. When the leadership gathered at Stalin's | Stalin shouted at Voroshilov who replied in kind, blaming the failure on S ... |
Uffizi | ... ral tourism is particularly strong, with world-renowned museums such as the | selling over 1.6 million tickets a year. The city's convention centre faci ... |
Amalienburg | ... villiés was appointed chief architect of the court and constructed also the | . The Nymphenburg Palace was completed during his rule, the grand circle ( ... |
Peterborough Abbey | ... Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and | ) as well as Spalding Abbey. As major landowners, the monasteries played a ... |
Kremlin | ... rightly-domed Saint Basil's Cathedral and the palaces and cathedrals of the | |
Achilleion | ... t to platonic romanticism. The palace, naturally, was named after Achilles: | (Αχίλλειον). This elegant structure abounds with paintings and statues of ... |
Casa Rosa | ... a buildings, which currently house the Puerto Rico Department of State, the | , the San José Church (1523) and the adjacent Hotel El Convento, the forme ... |
The Crystal Palace | ... assion. In 1850 he engaged his architect Sir Joseph Paxton, the designer of | , to carry out improvements and additions to the castle on a magnificent s ... |
Gisborough Priory | ... car and Cleveland. Gighesbore is listed in the Domesday Book and the ruined | dates back to the 12th century. The priory and (16th century, demolished a ... |
Cologne | ... ca, Poland, to noble parents in 1489. From 1505 to 1507 he was a student in | , and in 1507 enrolled at the University of Frankfurt on the Oder. Between ... |
Argos | During a feud between the most powerful houses in | , Talaus was slain by Amphiaraus, and Adrastus being expelled from his dom ... |
Dumbarton Castle | ... h some parts were made at least 160 years later, was held for many years in | and is now in the Wallace Monument |
Lorsch Abbey | ... year 766, surviving in a 12th-century copy in the Codex Laureshamensis from | . The name is interpreted as "the home of Manno", where Manno is a short f ... |
Winter Palace | ... of Soviets and at 11 pm on the evening of November 7, 1917, it captured the | , seat of Kerensky's government. Reed and Bryant were present during the f ... |
White House | ... most nights, with Brinkley specializing in Washington-area news (i.e., the | , U.S. Congress, the Pentagon). (Having two anchors also helped during vac ... |
Augsburg | ... em, and where Daniel received an artistic training with the painter Haid in | . His brother also became a painter |
White House | ... igon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns,1970s | photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron ... |
Budapest | Lukas was born Pál Lukács in | , the son of Naria (née Zilahy) and Janos Lukacs, an advertising executive ... |
palace | ... son's rebellion against the new regime. Diocletian retired to the expansive | he had built in his homeland, Dalmatia near Salona on the Adriatic. Maximi ... |
Beacon Theater | In May 2009, Costello made a surprise cameo appearance on-stage at the | in New York as part of Spinal Tap's Unwigged and Unplugged show, singing t ... |
Pylos | ... heon. In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets of circa 1400-1200 BC found at | , the "two mistresses and the king" are identified with Demeter, Persephon ... |
Nymphenburg Palace | ... nted chief architect of the court and constructed also the Amalienburg. The | was completed during his rule, the grand circle (the Schlossrondell) with ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... Little Saxham, Suffolk, in 1618, and was educated at Westminster School and | . He gained some distinction as a scholar and a poet, and was originally d ... |
Ohio Governor's Mansion | ... Kelveden"), the home of the president of The Ohio State University, and the | . Located in northern Bexley, the Governor’s Mansion — originally built as ... |
Reading Abbey | Scott restored the Inner Gateway (also known as the Abbey Gateway) of | in 1860 - 1861 after its partial collapse. St Mary's of Charity in Faversh ... |
Blickling Hall | ... ation), the Bure Valley Path and the Marriott's Way long distance footpath. | , the great country house in the care of the National Trust, is a mile and ... |
La Fortaleza | ... oric Site, and the 16th-century El Palacio de Santa Catalina, also known as | , which serves as the governor's mansion. Other buildings of interest pred ... |
Windsor Castle | ... y part of it. The castle is open to the public throughout the summer. After | , it is the second largest inhabited castle in England. Alnwick was the te ... |
Argos | #A daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of | ), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epidaurus and Criasus |
White House | ... ng the 1973 oil crisis. In 1974, a series of meetings in the library of the | in Washington, D.C. was known as the "Library Group". This was an informal ... |
Medeshamstede | ... cording to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wulfhere endowed a major monastery at | , in modern Peterborough. The monastery had initially been endowed by Pead ... |
Tower of London | ... in England between 1679 and the early 1680s. The Earl was imprisoned in the | . The loneliness Sarah suffered during these events drew her and Anne clos ... |
Radio City Music Hall | The film premiered at | in New York City |
Campo de Cahuenga | ... und the date of the original signing, a historical ceremony is conducted at | State Historic Park and site. From time to time, some of the descendants h ... |
Gampo Abbey | ... are a tiny minority (105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada), although | in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984 |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 10.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Salzburg | ... ct to denazification, and no comeback attempt was possible. He retired near | , Austria, and became an Austrian citizen in 1947 |
White House | ... as also eventually learned that a high-ranking Saudi prince had been at the | on the day that the Iraq war began, and Bush administration officials told ... |
White House | ... ts at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on the south lawn of the | . During the concert, which also included veteran gospel singers Barry McG ... |
Dunbar Castle | ... army; panic spread and defeat turned into a rout. He arrived eventually at | , from here he took ship to England. From the carnage of Bannockburn, the ... |
Kolomenskoye | ... viving daughter of Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia, was born at | , near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 (O.S.). Her parents were secretly marri ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... Henry VIII broke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the | , Catholic Church property and land was appropriated to the new Church of ... |
Budapest | ... st World Championships for individual rhythmic gymnasts was held in 1963 in | . Groups were introduced at the same level in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... |
Chicago Theatre | From May 9–12, 2006, the show made a similar venture to the | in Chicago, Illinois, taking cues from their previous trip to Toronto. Bet ... |
Dublin Castle | ... Croke Park, killing fourteen civilians. That evening, three IRA suspects in | were beaten and killed by their British captors, allegedly while trying to ... |
Hamarhus | ... t as a market town as well. In 1570 Hamar Cathedral in Hamar was burned and | castle was destroyed by the Swedish armies during the Seven Years' War wit ... |
Presidential Palace | ... er the jurisdiction of the city's general mayor. The seat of the state, the | , is located in the Champ de Mars plaza of the city. The PNdH (Police Nati ... |
Tiryns | ... cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy | , when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxhe ... |
Auschwitz | ... any for forced labor or to German extermination camps such as Treblinka and | . According to a recent estimate, between 2.35 and 2.9 million Polish Jews ... |
Meteora | ... ecords as the deepest gorge in the world. Another notable formation are the | rock pillars, atop which have been built medieval Greek Orthodox monasteri ... |
Ropsha | ... oup and just six months after his accession to the throne—Peter III died at | , at the hands of Alexei Orlov (younger brother to Gregory Orlov, then a c ... |
Argos | ... nto conflict with Sparta. By 395 BC, Thebes, alongside Athens, Corinth, and | , found itself arrayed against Sparta (a former ally) in the Corinthian Wa ... |
Rapallo | ... of Italian Socialist Party, whom he allegedly met and frequently visited in | , where his family had a holiday villa |
Leeds Castle | ... soned in the Tower of London after she refused Queen Isabella admittance to | and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, killing six of the royal es ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | ... he cathedral. In June 1504, David was installed next to the entrance to the | , replacing Donatello's bronze sculpture of , which embodied a comparable ... |
Government House | ... dings for himself and where he sited the Territorial (now the Saskatchewan) | |
Vienna | ... n in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and after studying law in Neuchâtel and | he became attorney-at-law in Lausanne. Active in the Social Democratic Par ... |
Clairvaux | ... such quick succession by the first Cistercian houses, the renowned abbey of | (de Clara Valle), AD 1116 |
White House | ... ed his seat to focus on the campaign, saying he was either heading for "The | or home" |
Chatsworth House | ... Dukes of Devonshire, but it is lived in for only a short part of the year. | is the main family seat and the home of the Dowager Duchess |
Pesaro | ... icly burned (May, 1556). Those who escaped the Inquisition were received at | by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. Guidobaldo had hoped to hav ... |
Royal Palace | ... sical style, is found in the centre of Oslo, near the National Theatre, the | , and the Parliament. Today the old campus is occupied by the Faculty of L ... |
Presidential Palace | ... sed the following summer, and he was forced switch his writing hand. In the | , shortly before leaving for Helsinki Central Railway Station for the last ... |
St. James's Palace | ... the sovereign is publicly proclaimed by an Accession Council that meets at | . The monarch is crowned in Westminster Abbey, normally by the Archbishop ... |
Regensburg | ... e Bavarian church and founded or restored bishoprics at Salzburg, Freising, | , and Passau |
Admont Abbey | ... ied after the latter year, in a relative advanced age. Her place of burial, | in , apparently confirm this theory |
Ravenna | ... 7) and The Kiss (1907–1908). Klimt travelled little but trips to Venice and | , both famous for their beautiful mosaics, most likely inspired his gold t ... |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 9.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Westminster Abbey | ... cession Council that meets at St. James's Palace. The monarch is crowned in | , normally by the Archbishop of Canterbury. A coronation is not necessary ... |
Tiryns | ... ath. But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of | , Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic ... |
Cologne | ... loped is the Otto cycle engine developed in 1876 by Nikolaus August Otto in | , Germany, after the operation principle described by Alphonse Beau de Roc ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... er, Queen Victoria. Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at | . Later in the year, the new King and Queen travelled to India for the Del ... |
Dáil Éireann | For elections to | the city is divided into five constituencies: Dublin Central (4 seats), Du ... |
Passau | ... h and founded or restored bishoprics at Salzburg, Freising, Regensburg, and | |
Gisborough Priory | ... ts. The college is next door to St Nicholas' Parish Church and the ruins of | . It is situated on the former site of Guisborough Grammar School, which i ... |
Zwinger Palace | ... as the Frauenkirche, the Semperoper (the Saxony state opera house) and the | (the latter two were rebuilt before reunification) |
number of castles | ... the Basel earthquake of 1356 which destroyed much of the city along with a | in the vicinity. The city offered courts to nobles as an alternative to re ... |
Old City | ... a can commute using the RiverLink Ferry, which connects the Waterfront with | Philadelphia |
Locarno | ... icularly in the field of neurophysiology. He died in 1997 in Tenero-Contra, | , |
Kylemore Abbey | ... ish citizen in 1964 and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at | for a number of years. A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG c ... |
Osaka Castle | ... y surrendered, and the temple was razed, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi constructed | in its place |
Palazzo Barberini | ... Merton moved out of his hotel and found a small pensione with views of the | and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, two magnificent pieces of architecture ... |
Argos | ... ecting the alliance with the Spartans and instead allying with her enemies, | and Thessaly. Megara deserted the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and all ... |
Dáil Éireann | ... the formation of a unilaterally declared Irish Republic and its parliament, | . The army of the republic, the Irish Republican Army waged a guerrilla wa ... |
Pesaro | ... nni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from | ; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astor ... |
Vihara | ... as and other archaeological remains, like foundations of Buddhist buildings | , compound walls and stone baths, are found on many islands of the Maldive ... |
Prüm Abbey | ... 's Abbey, near Trier. A century later, the Bastogne area went to the nearby | . The town of Bastogne and its marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 d ... |
Lateran Palace | The Council assembled at the | and nearly a thousand prelates attended. In his opening statement Innocent ... |
Masyaf | ... Iran from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and also controlled the castle of | in Syria. The group killed members of the Muslim Abbasid, Seljuq, and Chri ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... succeeded to the title in 2004, continues to live primarily on the family's | estate. His son, William Burlington maintains an apartment in the castle a ... |
Rokeby | Ferrisburgh is home to the | museum, a site on the underground railroad. The Lake Champlain Maritime mu ... |
Sandringham House | The Queen's residence at | in Sandringham, Norfolk provides an all year round tourist attraction whil ... |
Syon House | ... mour, the sixth Duke of Somerset, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at | . Anne continued to defy the Queen’s demand for Sarah’s dismissal, even th ... |
Bonn | The University of Bonn is a public research university located in | , Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of ... |
Vienna | ... -produced aircraft only. In 1955 LOT inaugurated new services to Moscow and | , thus connecting the Polish capital with two major European cities, and w ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | In 1761 he was a made a canon of | and in 1768 a canon of St Paul's from where he moved to be a canon at St G ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... nded precedence over Mary at the funeral of Edward VII, was slow in leaving | , and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been passed to the ne ... |
Ravenna | On 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in | where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, an a ... |
Neidpath | ... er, Tinnies, Dreva, Stobo, Dawyck, Easter Happrew, Lyne, Barnes, Caverhill, | , Peebles, Horsburgh, Nether Horsburgh Castle, Cardrona |
Lanercost | ... uses, not infrequently, had only a north aisle, as at Bolton, Brinkburn and | . The arrangement of the monastic buildings followed the ordinary type. Th ... |
Mereworth Castle | ... l, Lord Burlington had rejected this design and it was subsequently used at | , Kent. Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence of Andrea ... |
Hogwarts | The castle is used as a stand in for the exterior and interior of | in the Harry Potter films, which has led to an increase in public interest ... |
Ephrata Cloister | ... g the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness (led by Johannes Kelpius), the | , and the Harmony Society, among others. The Harmony Society was a Christi ... |
Qasr Amra | One of the rare examples of Islamic fresco painting can be seen in | , the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez |
Dáil Éireann | ... times heavily influenced by the TDs who represent the local constituency in | (the main chamber of parliament), and may be dictated by national politics ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ers of both Houses of Parliament urged that he be honoured with a burial in | . The family agreed and, on 3 August 1833, Wilberforce was buried in the n ... |
Winter Palace | ... ittle opposition before finally launching an assault on the poorly defended | |
Longleat | Russell Page, who began his career in the Brownian landscape of | but whose own designs have formal structure, accused Brown of "encouraging ... |
Bolzaneto | ... onstrators and journalists held in a detention centre in the nearby town of | . Video evidence from Indymedia and from the video activist group Undercur ... |
Winter Palace | ... ne became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple moved into the new | in Saint Petersburg |
Bevin House | ... -Exupérys lived in two penthouse apartments on Central Park South, then the | mansion in Asharoken, Long Island, N.Y., and still later at a rented house ... |
White House | ... ison, who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the | . Grover Cleveland, an anti-imperialist, assumed the presidency and right ... |
Carnuntum | ... idius Barbarus, centurion of XV Apollinaris, from the bank of the Danube at | , probably before 114 AD |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... School of Alexander Nowell. Raised in Protestant circles, Harrison entered | and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of Queen M ... |
Oystermouth Castle | ... e are six castles on the Gower Peninsula: (also known as Landimore Castle), | , Oxwich Castle, Pennard Castle, Penrice Castle and |
La Fortaleza | ... d in 1985 by then governor Rafael Hernández Colón during his second term in | and Ponce mayor Jose Dapena Thompson. The plan was aproved by the Ponce Mu ... |
Carlton Towers | ... l as Clun Castle in Shropshire, which are now largely ruins; Worksop Manor, | , Norfolk House in London, and most notably Arundel Castle |
Grand Trianon | ... for the use of the empress Marie-Louise. The emperor chose to reside at the | . The château continued to serve, however, as an annex of the Hôtel des In ... |
Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great | File:Macarius Kloster BW 1.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Cologne | ... His brother Klemens August of Bavaria, archbishop and elector (Kurfürst) of | , who mostly sided with the Austria Habsburg-Lorraine side during the Habs ... |
Budapest | ... stem the flow of violence. In 2008, hundreds of people participated in the | Dignity March. Police, on alert due to attacks on two LGBT-affiliated busi ... |
Mycenae | ... an apes and animals, copper nuggets and weapons from Eastern Mediterranean, | an ceramics. It has been hypotized that the ancient Sardinians, or part of ... |
Dünaburg castle | The town's history began in 1275 when | was built by the Livonian Order 20 km up the Daugava river from where Daug ... |
Vienna | ... Slovenija (Slovenia) organized by Slovene students that studied in Graz and | . Together with Matija Majar and Lovro Toman, he was among the authors who ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... h was once one of the largest in Europe. The abbey was destroyed during the | , with only Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower remaining. During the 13th centur ... |
Bonn | ... rom Dresden, while de Havilland Mosquito medium bombers attacked Magdeburg, | , Misburg near Hannover, and Nuremberg |
Brucemore Estate | ... d its doors. Cedar Rapids is also home to the historic 26 acre (105,000 m²) | , on which sits a 21-room mansion, and the Masonic Library and Museum |
Argos | She remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed by Perseus at | . In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone and the ... |
Vienna | File:Image-Coptic church (Vienna)4.JPG|Coptic Church in | , Austri |
Cologne | ... n Autobahn interchange eastwards the city where the Bundesautobahn 3 (A 3), | to Würzburg, and the Bundesautobahn 66 (A 66), Rheingau to Fulda, meet. Wi ... |
Marlborough House | ... o inherited the remainder of Sarah's numerous estates, including Wimbledon. | remained empty for fourteen years, with the exception of James Stephens, o ... |
Worksop Manor | ... y Castle, as well as Clun Castle in Shropshire, which are now largely ruins | ;, Carlton Towers, Norfolk House in London, and most notably Arundel Castl ... |
Dáil Éireann | ... he life of the woman. A provision exists in the Irish constitution to allow | to legislate on this; however, no political party has risked it, and in th ... |
Christiansborg Palace | ... Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen, after a lying in state at the chapel of | . Previous rulers had been interred in the cathedral, but it was the King' ... |
Dunfermline Abbey | The Category A listed | on the Kirkgate is one of the best examples of Scoto-Norman monastic archi ... |
Vienna | Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near | in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls ... |
Burghley House | | near the town of Stamford was built for Cecil between 1555 and 1587 and mo ... |
Rochester Castle | ... des sending Walter on diplomatic missions, King John gave Walter custody of | on 20 July 1202, but as Walter was already accounting for the taxes and fe ... |
Yerevan Fortress | File:Erivan1796.jpg|Yerevan in 1796 with | in the backgroun |
Casa Wiechers-Villaronga | ... rto Rico Legislature. However, these four museums (Casa Armstrong Poventud, | , Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña, and ) continue to be controlled by th ... |
Lismore Abbey | The castle site was originally occupied by | , an important monastery and seat of learning established in the early 7th ... |
Burton Abbey | ... ther (hence Ælfgifu's uncle) Wulfric Spot, a wealthy nobleman and patron of | . Her cognomen 'of Northampton' is attached to her in Manuscript D of the ... |
Margam Castle | ... e Talbot family. In the 19th century, C R M Talbot constructed a mansion at | which overlooks the abbey ruins. The nave of the abbey continued in use as ... |
Buckingham Palace | Prince Andrew was born in the Belgian Suite of | on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and The D ... |
Odell Castle | ... ustice" held annually since 1974, that was held that year in the grounds of | in , Norman took Randy Stonehill with him, and introducing him to his own ... |
Cologne | ... rking at the studio of influential German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in | |
Tower of London | ... Somerset ordered his detention on 10 October, and in November he was in the | |
Derbent | ... a medieval city located in the North Caucasus region, between the cities of | and Samandar, probably on the lower Sulak River. It flourished from the se ... |
White House | ... has being. For another example, the Washington Monument is taller than the | . Being-taller-than is a relation between the two structures. We can say t ... |
Bełżec extermination camp | ... ority of the ghetto's inhabitants, about 26,000 people, was deported to the | between 17 March and 11 April 1942. The remainder were moved to facilities ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... until the reign of Charles II, a procession would be led from the Tower to | on the coronation of a monarch. In the absence of the monarch, the Constab ... |
Bodiam Castle | In 1917, Curzon bought | in East Sussex, a 14th century building that had been gutted during the En ... |
Norfolk House | ... in Shropshire, which are now largely ruins; Worksop Manor, Carlton Towers, | in London, and most notably Arundel Castle |
Huis ten Bosch | ... near Baarn from his birth until 1981, when they moved to the larger palace | in The Hague. His mother Beatrix became Queen of the Netherlands in 1980, ... |
Hampton Court Palace | Catherine married Henry VIII on 12 July 1543 at | . Her previous husband had died on 2 March 1543. She was the first Queen o ... |
Winter Palace | ... ined by many other peasant workers, in a clearly peaceful procession to the | , intending to present a petition to the Tsar. Hundreds of soldiers stand ... |
Mainz | Reliefs on a cup found in | , appear to depict a Mithraic initiation. On the cup, the initiate is depi ... |
Cardiff Castle | ... t recent addition to the RHS shows line up is the RHS Show Cardiff, held at | since 2005. The society is also closely involved with the spring and autum ... |
Elba | ... of the Grand Army). He was with Napoleon during his exile to the island of | , and during his brief comeback known as the Hundred Days |
Radio City Music Hall | Liberace's final stage performance was at New York's | on November 2, 1986; the 18th show in 21 days, the series grossing $2.5 mi ... |
Elba | ... ers (but not his title as Emperor of the French) and sent him into exile on | |
Wallingford Castle | ... Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Henry VI, before moving to | early in his reign and taking Tudor with her. Catherine left court when he ... |
White House | ... of a family connection, Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the | as an unpaid summer intern starting in July 1995 in the office of White Ho ... |
Richmond Palace | ... built for Cecil between 1555 and 1587 and modelled on the privy lodgings of | . It was subsequently the residence of his descendants, the Earls and Marq ... |
Alexandra Palace | ... en, East Finchley, Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane and to train services at | and Hornsey |
Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great | File:St marcarius.JPG| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Tower of London | ... e was eventually found guilty of plotting against Edward, imprisoned in the | and privately executed on 18 February 1478: according to a long standing t ... |
2 Willow Road | ... modernist designs, particularly a terrace at Goldfinger's own residence at | . Goldfinger threatened to sue Fleming over the use of the name and, in re ... |
Blenheim Palace | ... the construction of her new estate, Woodstock Manor (the site of the later | ), a gift from Queen Anne after the duke's victory at the Battle of Blenhe ... |
Castle of the Valley of the Duchess | ... arbonade flamande - Carine ou la jeune fille folle de son âme - Casterman - | - Catholic Party (Belgium) - Catholic University of Leuven - Catholic Univ ... |
Pontigny Abbey | After his death he was taken back to | , where his main relics are now found in a baroque reliquary tomb dating t ... |
Evesham Abbey | | , which became possibly the third largest in England, was founded by Saint ... |
Monastery of the Miracle | ... thodox celebrate a feast in commemoration of this event on 6 September. The | (Chudov Monastery) in the Moscow Kremlin, where the Russian Tsars were bap ... |
Framlingham Castle | The main residences commonly associated with the Dukes of Norfolk are: | , Bungay Castle, as well as Clun Castle in Shropshire, which are now large ... |
Beckett Hall | He was born at | in Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), the home of his father, John ... |
Minas Tirith | ... . In the book the revelation was the primary factor for Sauron's assault on | before he had fully readied his forces. This plot element is partially tra ... |
Palace of Westminster | Visitors to the Houses of Parliament at the | in London will notice a plaque in the middle of the floor of Westminster H ... |
Fort Cass | Charleston was the site of the last Cherokee Agency as well as | , the headquarters of the Cherokee Removal of 1838, known as the Trail of ... |
Southsea Castle | The Tudor era | has a small museum, and much of the seafront defences up to the Round Towe ... |
Rashtrapati Bhavan | ... vernment of Delhi and the Government of India. The Parliament of India, the | (Presidential Palace), Cabinet Secretariat and the Supreme Court of India ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... d by King John after Walter's death. He was buried in the Trinity Chapel in | , next to Thomas Becket, where his tomb can still be seen. The tomb occupi ... |
Ravenna | ... te depose Avitus and ordered the murder of the magister militum Remistus at | , in the in Classis Palace, on 17 September 456 |
Grand Trianon | ... n dependency. Like Napoléon before him, Louis-Philippe chose to live at the | ; however, unlike Napoléon, Louis-Philippe did have a grand design for Ver ... |
Norwich Castle | ... xcavations in Norwich city centre which date from the 11th century onwards. | was founded soon after the Norman Conquest. The Domesday Book records that ... |
Vienna | ... :Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche4.JPG|Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, | , Austri |
Pylos | ... e of the nouveaux riches. While a general in the Peloponnesian War, he lost | to the Spartans and was charged with treason. According to the Constitutio ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... includes the towns of Abington and Whitman. The town is represented in the | as a part of two districts: by Thomas Kennedy in the Second Plymouth and B ... |
Lambeth Palace | ... Newman was unveiled at the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, opposite | |
Palace | ... nued until Commendator George Durie left to move into new apartments at the | in 1540. Along Abbot Street is the Category B listed Dunfermline Carnegie ... |
Sigiriya | Frescoes also can be found in | , situated in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, which are reminisc ... |
Manor Studios | ... or film Dèmoni 2. Once back in England, the band booked themselves into the | in Oxfordshire, with producer Steve Brown (who had produced Love), and rec ... |
Welbeck | ... by, Yorkshire, and Bayham, Kent. The head house of the order in England was | . This order was a reformed branch of the Augustinian canons, founded, AD ... |
Camp Casey | ... ion. On August 28, 2005, he visited anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan at | . He prayed with her and spoke to her supporters. He began his remarks by ... |
Government House | ... uses have been converted to retail and residential use. The long-imperilled | was saved in 1981 after decades of neglect and returned to viceregal use, ... |
Cologne | ... erman Burg = "castle"). The village, located near Kerpen in the vicinity of | , was displaced in 1956 by the strip mining of lignite in the region, alth ... |
Dunfermline Abbey | After King Alexander III was buried at | on 29 March 1286, the magnates and clerics of the realm assembled at Scone ... |
Kinfauns | In May 1968, The Beatles met at | , the Esher home of George Harrison, to review and record demos of songs u ... |
Theobalds House | A new | just off the main road north from London to Ware, was built between 1564 a ... |
Hulne Priory | ... stures. Nearby is the much larger Hulne Park, which contains the remains of | |
Clun Castle | ... ith the Dukes of Norfolk are: Framlingham Castle, Bungay Castle, as well as | in Shropshire, which are now largely ruins; Worksop Manor, Carlton Towers, ... |
Mycenae | ... gy, Aletes was the son of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of | . He had two sisters: Erigone and Helen. When they were young, their paren ... |
Argos | ... s the protector of not only Athens but also of many other cities, including | , Sparta, Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa |
Waltham Abbey | ... e made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of | . His possession of the living was in jeopardy on the appointment of Olive ... |
Yenikale | ... aynarca, signed 10 July 1774, gave the Russians territories at Azov, Kerch, | , Kinburn, and the small strip of Black Sea coast between the rivers Dniep ... |
Postel Abbey | In the north-east corner of Mol, near the Dutch border, lies the Norbertine | . Mol is also home to the SCK•CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, the Fle ... |
Ilchester Friary | ... was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the | . The only source for his date of birth is his statement in the Opus Terti ... |
Robert Ingersoll Birthplace | The | and Christopher Willis House are listed on the National Register of Histor ... |
Stanbrook Abbey | ... h Revolution and its successor community has since 1838 been established at | , near Malvern |
Southside House | ... : Hellens in Herefordshire, one of the oldest dwellings in the country, and | , a 17th century mansion on Wimbledon Common in London. An anecdote relate ... |
Holyrood Abbey | ... as baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in | and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord ... |
Castle of St. Peter | ... h was the original name of the settlement and the present site of the great | built by the Knights of Rhodes in 1404; but in course of time, the island ... |
Augsburg | The district is located to the east of the city of | and comprises a rural area with few major towns. The Lech River forms the ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | ... f medieval, Baroque, Neoclassical and modern architecture can be found. The | as well as the Duomo, or the city's Cathedral, are the two buildings which ... |
St. Emmeram's Abbey | ... tions; on the occasion of the wedding, Emperor Henry IV commissioned to the | the creation of Gospel Books to the Polish court, now kept in the library ... |
Kerak | ... ncy and the heiress of the lordship of Oultrejordain, including the castles | and Montreal to the southeast of the Dead Sea. These fortresses controlled ... |
Syrian Monastery | File:Deir as Suriani.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Vienna | ... y provoked loud protests both from Austria and Germany at the conference of | in 1890, and Baross was obliged somewhat to modify his system. This was by ... |
Chiswick House | The castle (along with other Boyle properties - | , Burlington House, Bolton Abbey and Londesborough Hall) was acquired by t ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... lt when Goring House burned down, on the site of which was eventually built | |
Lateran Palace | ... onstantine was soon baptized, and began the construction of a church in the | . In the eighth century, most likely during the pontificate of Stephen II ... |
Arundel Castle | ... ipal seat of the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for over 850 years is | . Built in the 11th Century by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the c ... |
Marlborough Castle | ... xcommunicated. To defeat the rebellion, Walter was required to lay siege to | himself. Walter employed his brother Theobald in similar actions in Lancas ... |
Harold Lloyd Estate | ... ncluded Rolling Hills and Palos Verdes Estates, and the 1920s Beverly Hills | 'Greenacres.' It is a gated residential community with a total all land ar ... |
Quirinal Palace | Gregory XV died in the | on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant'Ignazio. He was succe ... |
Satala | ... Hermocapella, Hierocaesarea, Acrassus, Dalda, Stratonicia, Cerasa, Gabala, | , Aureliopolis and Hellenopolis. Bishops from the various dioceses of Lydi ... |
Pairis Abbey | ... me from the Holy Roman Empire, including the men under Bishop Martin of the | and Bishop Conrad of Halberstadt, together in alliance with the Venetian s ... |
Brucemore | ... Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, and | , a National Trust Historic Site, among others |
Loarre Castle | ... cient castles nestle on lonely hills, the most famous being the magnificent | |
Southsea Castle | ... , Cumberland House (a natural history museum), The Royal Marines Museum and | . Southsea's seafront is also home to Clarence Pier Amusement Park |
Faneuil Hall | ... t. Kennedy formally announced his campaign on November 7, 1979, at Boston's | . He had already received substantial negative press from a rambling respo ... |
Latrun | ... ted Irgun and Lehi members to detention camps in Africa. 251 detainees from | were flown on thirteen planes, on October 19 to a camp in Asmara, Eritrea. ... |
Cologne | ... rossed into French airspace near the Somme, then into Germany just north of | . At 22:00 hours, the force heading for Böhlen split away from Plate Rack, ... |
Framlingham Castle | ... er of the Wardrobe. The Duke's main home was at Stoke-by-Nayland (and later | ) in Suffolk. However, after his second marriage, he frequently resided at ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... stle (along with other Boyle properties - Chiswick House, Burlington House, | and Londesborough Hall) was acquired by the Cavendish family in 1753 when ... |
Glastonbury Abbey | Edgar died on 8 July 975 at Winchester, and was buried at | . He left two sons, the elder named Edward, who was probably his illegitim ... |
Drakesteijn | ... jn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle | in the hamlet Lage Vuursche near Baarn from his birth until 1981, when the ... |
their first house | ... apel across the state line. Bart was born soon after, and the couple bought | . The episode "That '90s Show" (season 19, 2008) contradicted much of the ... |
Salon de l’Œil de Bœuf | ... ome modifications in the appartement du roi, namely the construction of the | and the King’s Bedchamber. With the completion of the chapel in 1710, virt ... |
Dunfermline Palace | ... second son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark, Charles was born in | , Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was Mary, Queen of Sc ... |
Lambeth Palace | ... on Affairs, on the recommendation of Tomkins and Bishop John Howe. Based at | , Waite again travelled extensively throughout the world, and had a respon ... |
Windsor Castle | ... aughter had died at a young age. Melbourne was given a private apartment at | , and unfounded rumours circulated for a time that Victoria would marry Me ... |
Pitreavie Castle | ... f Club. To the south of Dunfermline is the Category A listed Hill House and | . Both dating from the mid-17th century, Hill House was built as a residen ... |
Salerno | ... er, Theron at 16 won a one-year modeling contract at a local competition in | , and with her mother moved to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year mod ... |
Xanten | ... anuary 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers' training college in | , where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin ( ... |
Powelton Village | ... are located north of Arch Street between 34th Street and 32nd Street in the | area |
Ciudad Rodrigo | ... ping away from British pursuit, but retained the twin Spanish fortresses of | and Badajoz, the 'Keys' guarding the roads through the mountain passes int ... |
Edo Castle | ... a shogunate. He was the illegitimate son of a court painter in residence at | , and adopted as the son of Takahashi Kakuji, a low-ranking ashigaru samur ... |
Dublin Castle | ... landmarks and monuments dating back hundreds of years. One of the oldest is | , which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King ... |
Christiansborg Palace | ... ederick succeeded to the throne. He was proclaimed king from the balcony of | by Prime Minister Knud Kristensen |
Budapest | ... ond round of the European Cup 1962-63. The first two legs, in Rotterdam and | both ended in 1–0 home victories, and a replay on a neutral ground took pl ... |
Minas Tirith | ... of the Rings films, the palantíri of Minas Ithil, Orthanc, and Minas Anor ( | ) are included with alterations. As a consequence of eliminating the Battl ... |
Hellens | ... ristocratic background. Her family owned two notable properties in England: | in Herefordshire, one of the oldest dwellings in the country, and Southsid ... |
Argos | ... ones, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, T.K. Maxx, JD Sports, Sony, McDonald'sx2, | , PC World, Tesco, Waitrose, Monsoon, HMV and H&M. Smaller independent uni ... |
Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas | In her youth, she visited the | , founded by her father, several times. Later in life, she would establish ... |
Palazzo Pitti | ... ies Vasari's elevated corridor linking the Uffizi to the Medici residence ( | ). Although the original bridge was constructed by the Etruscans, the curr ... |
Clonmacnoise | ... he 9th century we find mention of nine places in Ireland (including Armagh, | , Clones, Devenish and Sligo) where communities of Culdees were establishe ... |
Margam Castle | ... 13th century, stand within 840 acre (3.4 km²) Margam Country Park, close to | |
Vallombrosa | ... ovence, especially the monasteries Montecassino, Saint-Victor de Marseille, | , boosted the agriculture in a land which was extremely underdeveloped. Th ... |
Thetford Priory | He was buried in | , but his body seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to th ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... s and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in | . Soon after his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III |
Arezzo | ... r a “Congress” of scholars from all over Europe to debate them. Stopping in | he became embroiled in a love affair with the wife of one of Lorenzo de’ M ... |
Abbey of Gethsemani | ... 8) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the | , Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative rel ... |
La Fortaleza | ... tionalists were supposed to attack simultaneously the gubernatorial mansion | , where Puerto Rican governor Luis Muñoz Marín resided, and the United Sta ... |
Carnuntum | ... ed against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortress of | in Pannonia. Eutropius compared the war, and Marcus Aurelius' success agai ... |
White House | ... erformed for music-loving President Harry S. Truman in the East room of the | . Despite his success in the supper-club circuit, where he was often an in ... |
Norwich Cathedral | In 1096, Herbert de Losinga, the Bishop of Thetford, began construction of | . The chief building material for the Cathedral was limestone, imported fr ... |
Camp Ramah | ... ng, which was torn down in 1996 to make way for Union Commons condominiums. | Day Camp is located in Wheeling |
Armstrong-Poventud Residence | ... ll), the oldest colonial building in the city, dating to the 1840s, and the | , an example of the neoclassical architectural heritage of the island |
St. Jean des Vignes Abbey | ... ufacturing centre with the 12th century Soissons Cathedral and the ruins of | as two of its most important historical buildings. The nearby Espace Pierr ... |
Mannheim Palace | ... te through the streets and avenues runs by a large 18th century palace, the | . This former home of the rulers of the Palatinate now houses part of the ... |
city palace | ... , the renowned boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the | of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II ... |
Mainz | The most famous parades are held in Cologne, | , and Düsseldorf on the Monday before Ash Wednesday, called Rosenmontag |
Arundel Castle | ... s; Worksop Manor, Carlton Towers, Norfolk House in London, and most notably | |
Whitby Abbey | ... for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch ( | ) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ig ... |
Palace of Versailles | ... of museums worldwide) on Oak Island. During the French Revolution, when the | was stormed by revolutionaries in 1789, Marie Antoinette instructed her ma ... |
Palacio de Bellas Artes | ... 1976, Vargas Llosa punched García Márquez in the face in Mexico City at the | , ending the friendship. Neither writer has publicly stated the underlying ... |
Vienna | ... cession Charles Albert invaded Upper Austria in 1741 and planned to conquer | but his allied French troops were redirected to Bohemia instead. So Charle ... |
Rocketown | In 1994, Smith opened a teen club, named | , in Nashville, Tennessee (6th Avenue). Later in early 2003, the club was ... |
Windsor Castle | ... w's runways. On 23 October 2003, the Queen consented to the illumination of | , an honour reserved for state events and visiting dignitaries, as Concord ... |
Amalienborg Palace | ... the 1971/72 turn of the year, he fell ill. After his death 14 days later in | on 14 January 1972, King Frederick IX was buried at Roskilde Cathedral nea ... |
Brian Haw | ... was officially given for State Britain, which recreated all the objects in | 's anti-war display in Parliament Square, London. The judges commended Wal ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... house. The manor house formerly associated with the church was assigned to | by Christian priest Warherdus as far back as 830 AD. The site of the origi ... |
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial | ... is over 16 percent of the entire system. The smallest unit in the system is | , Pennsylvania, at 0.02 acre (80 m²) |
Regensburg | In the meantime, Judith remained in Germany and settled in her residence in | (with short breaks) from May or July 1074 until 1088. After his release, S ... |
Serrallés Castle | Just north of downtown Ponce lies the | and the Cruceta El Vigía, a observation tower which overlooks the city. Th ... |
Minas Ithil | In T.A. 2002, the White City's companion city, | , Tower of the Moon (Moontower), on the borders of Mordor, was captured by ... |
Fort Cass | ... were forced to march from "emigration depots" in Eastern Tennessee, such as | , to Indian Territory west of Arkansas. This came to be known as the Trail ... |
Banketinghouse | ... first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers" performed "A Play in the | att Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis." The work is attributed to "Shaxbe ... |
Cologne | The most famous parades are held in | , Mainz, and Düsseldorf on the Monday before Ash Wednesday, called Rosenmo ... |
Windsor Castle | ... ter his death. He died on 9 April 1483 and is buried in St George's Chapel, | . He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Edward V of England |
Windsor Castle | ... at Cox Green in Bray as it was conveniently close to the Royal residence at | |
Burghley House | ... and patron. All the arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on | and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hat ... |
Old Salem | ... ilding on South Main Street in Winston-Salem in what is now called historic | . The Krispy Kreme logo was designed by Benny Dinkins, a local architect |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Mabel Dodge Luhan House | File:MabelHouse.jpg| | , a National Historic Landmar |
Elba | Some well-known English palindromes are, "Able was I ere I saw | ", "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!", "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Madam in Eden ... |
Camp David | ... ton announced his invitation to Barak and Arafat on 5 July 2000, to come to | to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process. There was ... |
Badminton House | ... e evacuated from London. Although she was reluctant, she decided to live at | , Gloucestershire, with her niece, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, the ... |
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site | ... Presidential Library and Museum is located in West Branch, Iowa next to the | . The library is one of twelve presidential libraries run by the National ... |
Nijmegen | ... Roman territory, either between the Rhine and Waal rivers from Noviomagus ( | , Netherlands) to Traiectum (Utrecht, Netherlands) or near Trier. These tr ... |
Skibo Castle | ... shed first draft sketches. It is most probably based upon Andrew Carnegie's | , befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose caricature of Carne ... |
Vienna | ... :Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche2.JPG|Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, | , Austri |
Cologne | ... s the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the Prince-elector of | ) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfel ... |
Fontfroide Abbey | ... untryside to study at the University of Paris. In 1311 he was made Abbot of | and quickly became known for his intelligence and organizational ability. ... |
West Wycombe Park | ... se are opened to the public by the National Trust, such as Waddesdon Manor, | and Cliveden. Other historic houses are still in use as private homes, suc ... |
Beeston Regis | The memorial to the men and women of Sheringham and | who died in military service during the two World Wars is located at on th ... |
Ravenna | Benedict's successor, Clement XII (elected 1730), named him legate of | , where he erected the Porta Alberoni (1739), a magnificent gateway that f ... |
Minas Anor | One Stone, the "palantír of Anárion", was placed at | , which eventually became the capital of Gondor and was renamed Minas Tiri ... |
Quirinal Palace | ... of the official residence of the Italian Head of State, who resides in the | ; by metonymy "the Quirinal" has come to stand for the Italian President |
Placidia Palace | ... ine departed on 5 October 710. In Constantinople, Constantine stayed in the | , which had formerly been occupied by Pope Vigilius in 547, the representa ... |
Presidential Palace | The | was badly damaged, the second floor collapsing onto the first floor; the H ... |
Esztergom | He was born as Vajk in the town of | . His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his mother was Sarolt, daug ... |
San Casciano in Val di Pesa | ... to include the outlying areas of Barberino Val d'Elsa, Chiocchio, Robbiano, | and Strada. The 1932 expansion was canonized into DOC regulations in 1966. ... |
Warkworth Castle | ... gion, such as the castles of Bamburgh and Raby. In 1345 the Percys acquired | , also in Northumberland. Though Alnwick was considered more prestigious, ... |
Argos | ... own centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, | , Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, ... |
Palace of Holyroodhouse | ... the social calendar. The Sovereign's official residence in Scotland is the | in Edinburgh. The monarch stays at Holyrood for at least one week each yea ... |
Government House | ... tatives was suspended at 12:55pm for the luncheon break. Whitlam arrived at | at 1pm, 15 minutes late. Fraser had arrived earlier and been shown into an ... |
Arundel Castle | ... 1139 Matilda landed in England with 140 knights, where she was besieged at | by King Stephen. In the "Anarchy" which ensued, Stephen was captured at Li ... |
Mar Saba | ... opments), returning the relics of Sabbas the Sanctified (a common saint) to | in the same year, and the first visit of a Pope to an Orthodox country in ... |
Ravenna | ... ona surrendered soon afterwards, followed by Aquileia, Mutina (Modena), and | . The road to Rome was now wide open to Constantine |
castle of Wittelsbach | ... century on. The region is sometimes called the cradle of Bavaria, since the | was located close to the present city of Aichach. It was the ancestral cas ... |
Salian | ... r, were villages later merged into Bayreuth: Seulbitz (in 1035 as the royal | estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor Conrad II) and St. Johannis (p ... |
Micy | ... er student and monk Remi of Trèves, his colleague Constantine, the abbot of | , as well as the accounts of his former student and French nobleman Richer ... |
Leinster House | ... tion of Ireland in 1922, the new parliament, the Oireachtas, was located in | . Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State and later the Republic ... |
Favorita Palace | The Emperor died on 20 October 1740 at the | , Vienna. There is some evidence that Charles' death was caused by consumi ... |
Norwich Castle Museum | ... nce, commerce, culture and the arts, have included the refurbishment of the | and the opening of the Forum. The proposed new slogan for Norwich, England ... |
La Haye Sainte | ... ted in disorder through the main position. However the left failed to storm | , which was most well defended, and Thomas Picton's division met the remai ... |
Fontevraud Abbey | ... sed of attempting to poison the king, and to avoid arrest, sought refuge in | where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed |
Jenin | ... , bypassed roads and annexed lands would create barriers between Nablus and | with Ramallah. The Ramallah bloc would in turn be divided from Bethlehem a ... |
Hampton Court Palace | ... Gatwick Airport and flows north west through Surrey for to the Thames near | . The river gives its name to the Surrey district of Mole Valley. The Mole ... |
Miraflores Palace | ... de provides the honor guard to President in State Arrival Ceremonies at the | and to the President in every activity held in the grounds and at the Tomb ... |
hermitage | Merton finally achieved the solitude he had long desired while living in a | on the monastery grounds in 1965. Over the years he had occasional battles ... |
Cliveden | ... ublic by the National Trust, such as Waddesdon Manor, West Wycombe Park and | . Other historic houses are still in use as private homes, such as the Pri ... |
Haddon Hall | ... y Museum, Peak Rail steam railway, Midland Railway steam railway, Dovedale, | , Heights of Abraham and Matlock Bath |
Prague Castle | Vratislaus is credited with the establishment of St. George's Basilica at | and also with the foundation of the Silesian city of Wrocław (Vratislavia) ... |
Litchfield Law School | Connecticut was home to the nation's first law school, | , which operated from 1773 to 1833 in Litchfield. Hartford Public High Sch ... |
Raby | ... l" date from this period in the region, such as the castles of Bamburgh and | . In 1345 the Percys acquired Warkworth Castle, also in Northumberland. Th ... |
Ely Cathedral | ... rom the flat fenlands that surround it for miles. Other churches, including | , also derive nicknames from their appearance when viewed from the fens |
École Militaire | ... tatue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be installed at the | , but the Minister of Defense refused to display it, even though Alfred Dr ... |
Southwick Priory | ... Thomas Becket was erected by Augustinian monks; it was run by the monks of | until the Reformation. The modern is built on the original location of the ... |
Chicago Theatre | ... 38), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They were engaged at the | , and married on January 26, 1940, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church i ... |
Mainz | | , on the opposite side of the Rhine river, is Wiesbaden's archrival – the ... |
Port-Royal | ... in 1649, his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, went to live in the convent of | and took her grandson with her. He received a classical education at the P ... |
Baynard's Castle | ... to establish control over the settlement. The other two castles in London – | and Montfichet's Castle – were established at the same time. The fortifica ... |
Cologne | ... h connections to major European centres such as Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam, | , Geneva and London. The TGV also serves Toulouse and Irun from Bordeaux. ... |
Budapest | ... In Hungary, several public places are named after Attila; for instance, in | there are 10 Attila Streets, one of which is an important street behind th ... |
Cologne | ... residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in | for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 a ... |
Vienna | File:Image-Coptic church (Vienna)3.JPG|Coptic Church in | , Austri |
Ciudad Rodrigo | ... just after New Year in 1812, besieging and capturing the fortified towns of | , Badajoz, and in the Battle of Salamanca (which was a damaging defeat to ... |
Castel Gandolfo | ... and five Italian sites outside of Rome, including the Pontifical Palace at | . The same authority is extended under international law over the Apostoli ... |
Chatsworth House | ... on, and Derby. Local places of interest include Bolsover Castle, Castleton, | , Crich Tramway Museum, Peak Rail steam railway, Midland Railway steam rai ... |
Vienna | ... neral Government after annoying Hitler with a series of speeches in Berlin, | , Heidelberg, and Munich and also as part of a power struggle with Friedri ... |
St. Peter's Monastery | ... th century manuscript as a daughter of Wulfhere. An 11th-century history of | in Gloucester names two other women, Eadburh and Eafe, as queens of Wulfhe ... |
Beacon Theater | ... m of rock and roll band The Rolling Stones' performances at New York City's | on October 29 and November 1, 2006, intercut with brief news and interview ... |
Vienna | ... envelop his right flank in order to cut the French communication line from | . As a result, the Allies' center and left flank would be exposed and beco ... |
Sudeley Castle | ... of John Locust discovered the coffin of Queen Catherine at the ruins of the | chapel. He opened the coffin and observed that the body, after 234 years, ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... g of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was buried in | |
the abbey | ... issance burgh. Some of the surviving buildings of the fire were the palace, | and the Abbot's House |
Vienna | His pictures can be found in Dresden, Braunschweig, | , Florence, Naples and many other towns of both Germany and Italy |
Cannons | ... ring a period of twenty years Pepusch directed the musical establishment at | , a large house northwest of London. For a couple of years he worked along ... |
Bamburgh | ... nd] theatrical" date from this period in the region, such as the castles of | and Raby. In 1345 the Percys acquired Warkworth Castle, also in Northumber ... |
Vienna | ... f the Austrian domain (in the industrial centers of Bohemia, Lower Austria, | , and Upper Styria). Social upheaval led to increased strife in ethnically ... |
Argos | ... by Minoans who were seeking to avenge the kidnapping of Io, a princess from | . His variant story may have been an attempt to rationalize the earlier my ... |
Vienna | ... hing the Spitfire being tested. Mitchell went to the American Foundation in | for a month, but died on 11 June 1937 at age 42. His ashes were interred a ... |
Cologne | ... to Protestantism. His principal works were published in a collected form at | , 1696; some large treatises were excluded. There is a study of both books ... |
Palace of Westminster | ... er, Strawberry Switchblade and Kirsty MacColl invited to a reception at the | hosted by Labour MP Robin Cook. The collective took its name from a 1919 p ... |
Ephrata Cloister | ... an history, such as the music of the Amish, the Harmony Society, and of the | in Pennsylvania |
Salzburg | ... ead attended the funeral of Ratzenberger which took place on 7 May 1994, in | , Austria. Mosley said in a press conference ten years later, "I went to h ... |
Pavia | ... lbi (1812–1884), followed a similar career, being professor of geography at | , and publishing his father's Scritti Geografici (Turin, 1841), and origin ... |
Budapest | ... e joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for their concerts in Warsaw and | , as well as other Eastern bloc countries. He toured with the IPO in the s ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... ry and other bishops. At various times the choice was made by the canons of | , the King of England, or the Pope. Since the English Reformation, the Chu ... |
Uppark | ... onfessed freethinker. When his mother returned to work as a lady's maid (at | , a country house in Sussex), one of the conditions of work was that she w ... |
Winter Palace | ... was not delayed. Alexandra and Nicholas were wed in the Grand Church of the | of Saint Petersburg on 26 November 1894. The marriage that began that nigh ... |
Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo | ... ltese - Courtyard of the Maltese, today Corte Contarini del Bovolo, next to | ) is a laconic sea captain adventuring during the early 20th century (1900 ... |
Bletchley Park | ... I, he worked in the Naval section Hut 8 at the code-breaking establishment, | , translating Italian Naval codes. A wearer of large, brightly-coloured bo ... |
Bishop Portier House | ... Greek Revival school building and local landmark on Government Street. The | and the Carlen House are two of the many surviving examples of Creole cott ... |
Tushpa | Under the ancient name of | , Van was the capital of the Urartian kingdom in the 9th century BC. The e ... |
Waddesdon Manor | ... uses. Some of these are opened to the public by the National Trust, such as | , West Wycombe Park and Cliveden. Other historic houses are still in use a ... |
Grimsthorpe Castle | ... ly married and had children, most historians believe she died as a child at | |
Alba Iulia | ... st of his life. In 1629 Alsted left war-torn Germany for Gyulafehérvár (now | in Romania, called at that time Weissenburg in German). He was to found a ... |
Ravenna | ... ave written a life of Saint Adalbert. Later, Bruno entered a monastery near | , founded by Otto, and underwent severe ascetic training under the guidanc ... |
Calke Abbey | ... National Trust, located in Derbyshire that are open to the public, such as | , Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate, Ilam Park, Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Est ... |
Plassenburg | # Johann, Viceroy of Valencia (9 January 1493, | –5 July 1525, Valencia) |
Bennett Bunn Plantation | ... Zebulon listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Wakelon School, | , and the George and Neva Barbee House |
Ettal Abbey | ... tion throughout the world by elevating 20 well-known Marian shrines such as | in Bavaria into Basilica Minors. He also promoted Marian devotions in May ... |
Philmont Scout Ranch | ... re Bases, originally starting with the Order of the Arrow Trail Crew at the | working to build new trails and repair old ones. Later this expanded to th ... |
Vienna | ... ortation transports with 2,003 Jewish men, women and children on board left | Aspang Station to Opole, By March 1941, 8,000 Jews were deported to the gh ... |
Mainz | ... to the figure, indicating that she was known as "John Anglicus" or "John of | ." It also changes the date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating t ... |
Melrose Abbey | ... of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough. Brewster died in 1868, and was buried at | , next to his first wife and second son. The physics building at Heriot Wa ... |
24 Sussex Drive | Two official residences are provided to the prime minister | in Ottawa and Harrington Lake, a country retreat in Gatineau Park as well ... |
Vienna | File:Image-Coptic church (Vienna)2.JPG|Coptic Church in | , Austri |
Christ Church | ... et. At one time the college owned all the land from the site of what is now | to the south eastern corner of the city. The land to the east eventually b ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Heiligenkreuz Abbey | The Thallern estate in Gumpoldskirchen, another Cistercian grange, owned by | , dates from 1147 |
Seanad Éireann | ... y the Dáil works, and in a controversial move, abolishing the Irish senate, | |
École Militaire | ... Dreyfus. The event took place in the same cobblestone courtyard of Paris's | , where Capitaine Dreyfus had been officially stripped of his officer's ra ... |
Eketorp | ... t 20 hillforts on Öland. The most notable in southern Öland is the fortress | |
Northern Tier National High Adventure Bases | ... working to build new trails and repair old ones. Later this expanded to the | with the OA Wilderness Voyage, repairing the portage trails in the Boundar ... |
Windsor Castle | ... alls on the same site, and was heavily influenced by Edward III's design at | . The hall consists of a "ceremonial sequence of rooms", approached by a p ... |
Plassenburg | # Barbara (24 September 1495, Ansbach–23 September 1552), married in | on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg |
Austonian Condos | ... the city is home to some of the tallest condo towers in the state, with the | topping out at 56 floors and the 360 Condos at 44 floors. The 360 Tower an ... |
Windsor Castle | ... res, royal christenings and other ceremonies. Another official residence is | , the largest occupied castle in the world, which is used principally at w ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | His son Charles, studying to be a divine at | , died in 1731, the same year that the Swift and Pope Miscellanies, Volume ... |
Citadelle of Quebec | ... by 0.8 km (0.5 mi) wide, 43.7 ha (108 acre) that extends westward from the | and the walls of Quebec City along a plateau above the Saint Lawrence Rive ... |
El Escorial | ... shed, Cathedral of Valladolid was designed by Juan de Herrera, architect of | |
Ravenna | ... sion from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from Odoacer. By 493 | was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It was also at this t ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... was among sixteen Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in | 's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and f ... |
Cologne | ... 277, 413 and 414, over which there are connections to the Autobahnen A 3 ( | –Frankfurt), A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg) and A 48 |
Latrun | ... rstanding between the two peoples. The village is located on one of the two | hilltops, midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Falling under the jurisdi ... |
Westminster Abbey | Mountbatten was buried in Romsey Abbey after a televised funeral in | which he himself had comprehensively planned |
San Anton Palace | ... d, going as far as describing Ball as "a truly great man". Ball died in the | on 25 October 1809 and was buried in Malta. In the Lower Barrakka Gardens ... |
Monte Cristo Cottage | O'Neill's home in New London, | , was made a National Historic Landmark in 1971. His home in Danville, Cal ... |
Camp David | ... , and political aspirations.Sudan showed great solidarity with Egypt in its | peace initiatives with Israel in the late 1970s. In 2008, Egyptian Prime M ... |
Argive | ... ourth in order of institution after the Eleusinia, the Panathenaia, and the | games, while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to th ... |
Palace of Versailles | ... bility to purchase art, and the leisure required to pursue or enjoy it. The | and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg illustrate this view: such vast collec ... |
Ely Cathedral | ... an honorary degree (D.Univ) by the Open University at an award ceremony in | on 30 May 2009 |
Vienna | ... entral European uplands. The city was at the junction of the Berlin-Prague- | railway line, as well as the Munich-Breslau, and Hamburg-Leipzig. Colonel ... |
La Fortaleza | ... rmer defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and | , the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas |
Meteora | ... zFest in 2001. Bennington was plagued with poor health during the making of | , and struggled to attend some of the album’s recording sessions. He fell ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... rs". At the time, London was the largest town in England; the foundation of | and the old Palace of Westminster under Edward the Confessor had marked it ... |
Oranienbaum | ... litical error of retiring with his Holstein-born courtiers and relatives to | , leaving his wife in Saint Petersburg. On 8 and 9 July, the Leib Guard re ... |
Kensington Palace | ... t to the UK to attend Cheam School, living with his maternal grandmother at | and his uncle, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, at Lynde ... |
Argolid | ... de a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the | , the Troad and Crete, to cause these to be taken seriously. Aegean vases ... |
Manderley Castle | ... result, Enya spent an estimated €250,000 on security measures for her home, | in Killiney. In 1996, a man, who had been seen in Dublin wearing her photo ... |
Singidunum | ... two leaders of the Arians, bishops Palladius of Ratiaria and Secundianus of | , confident of numbers, prevailed upon Gratian to call a general council f ... |
Marlborough House | ... 710. She died of old age, at the age of eighty-four, on 18 October 1744, at | ; she was buried at Blenheim. Her husband’s body was exhumed from Westmins ... |
Dutch Royal Family | ... ho were sitting on their thrones at the time of her coronation in 1898. The | was also one of seven European royal houses remaining in existence |
Carnuntum | ... imian's step-grandson and also his son-in-law), in Trier. At the Council of | in November 308, Diocletian and his successor, Galerius, forced Maximian t ... |
Endview Plantation | ... ark in the United States. The parks are scattered throughout the city, from | in the northern end of the city to King-Lincoln Park in the southern end n ... |
Auschwitz | ... eatures a number of long tracking shots through various settings, including | and Tuol Sleng: over photos of the people involved, past skulls stacked in ... |
Lilienfeld Abbey | ... ger Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (“the Glorious”) to the Cistercian monks at | in 1202, though the property as such (as opposed to the endowment) is trad ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... Mary. Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at | in honor of the King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. and he was befriended by MPs ... |
Buckingham Palace | The Sovereign's official residence in London is | . It is the site of most state banquets, investitures, royal christenings ... |
Viminacium | ... ities of Illyricum and forts on the river, including (according to Priscus) | , a city of Moesia. Their advance began at Margus, where they demanded tha ... |
Hardwick Hall | ... st, located in Derbyshire that are open to the public, such as Calke Abbey, | , High Peak Estate, Ilam Park, Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Estate near Hather ... |
C. M. Russell Museum Complex | The city is home to the | , the University of Great Falls, Montana State University Great Falls - CO ... |
Morven Park | ... equine industry has an estimated revenue of $78 Million. It is home to the | International Equestrian Center which hosts national horse trials. In addi ... |
Santo Stefano | One example is | in Bologna, Italy, an agglomeration of seven churches recreating shrines o ... |
Orange-Nassau | ... birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , Prince of | (Dutch: Prins van Oranje-Nassau), and Jonkheer of Amsberg (Dutch: Jonkheer ... |
dissolved | ... l of Gloucester and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was | by King Henry VIII of England in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this ... |
House of Luxembourg | The | accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ... |
Florida National High Adventure Sea Base | ... oundary Waters area. Most recently, the OA began the Ocean Adventure at the | in the Florida Keys, which offers scuba diving certification and works to ... |
Cologne | ... ees, one of which was known as the Femelinde. With the growing influence of | during the 15th century, the seat was moved to Arnsberg in 1437 |
Palazzo del Quirinale | The Quirinal Hill is today identified with the | , the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic and one ... |
Palacio Nacional de la Cultura | ... f the city, the location of many important historic buildings including the | (National Palace of Culture), the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Con ... |
Blandings Castle | ... , another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited | |
Westminster | ... tempts by King Henry to influence the other bishops against Becket began in | in October 1163, where the King sought approval of the traditional rights ... |
Hougoumont | The Battle of Waterloo commenced with a diversionary attack on | by a division of French soldiers. After a barrage of 80 cannons the first ... |
Bedford Castle Mound | ... ant Jagger and depicts a Knight vanquishing a dragon. The inscription reads | is the remnant of Bedford's medieval castle, located close to the centre o ... |
Romsey Abbey | Mountbatten was buried in | after a televised funeral in Westminster Abbey which he himself had compre ... |
Lielvārde | Krāslava, Daugavpils, Līvāni, Jēkabpils, Pļaviņas, Aizkraukle, Jaunjelgava, | , Kegums, Ogre, Ikšķile, Salaspils and Riga |
Oregon State Senate | ... epresentatives by two Republicans, Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the | by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klam ... |
Brandon Castle | ... high. Although Kenilworth's great tower is larger, it is similar to that of | near Coventry; both were built by the local Clinton family in the 1120s. T ... |
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site | ... His home in Danville, California, near San Francisco, was preserved as the | in 1976 |
Massachusetts Senate | ... erkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Whitby Abbey | ... ther who cared for the animals at the monastery Streonæshalch (now known as | ). One evening, while the monks were feasting, singing, and playing a harp ... |
Chequers | ... still in use as private homes, such as the Prime Minister's country retreat | |
Vienna | Karl Popper was born in | (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902, to upper middle-class parents. All of K ... |
Minas Ithil | One Stone was placed at | in the mountains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithi ... |
Norwich Castle | ... on, he won the admiration of Edward IV of England who made him Constable of | , High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk (1461), Treasurer of the Royal House ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ough House; she was buried at Blenheim. Her husband’s body was exhumed from | and buried beside her |
Ester Camp Historic District | In 1987, the gold camp was designated the | by the National Register of Historic Places |
Inverness Castle | ... nder Ross the Pitcalnie chief raised a Ross Independent Company to garrison | against the Jacobites |
John Edwards House | ... d on the National Register of Historic Places: the old village hall and the | |
Pontigny | ... red Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abbey of | , until Henry's threats against the order obliged him to return to Sens. B ... |
Santa Maria del Carmine | ... a Fiorentina, San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, Florence Charterhouse, and | . The city additionally contains the Orthodox Russian church of Nativity, ... |
Stanbrook Abbey | ... he faith at , close to his home. He also paid regular visits to the nuns at | , and the abbey press printed commemorative editions of some of his poems. ... |
Sudeley Castle | ... — on 30 August 1548, and died only six days later, on 5 September 1548, at | in Gloucestershire, from what is thought to be puerperal fever or puerpera ... |
Clairvaux | The abbey was founded in 1147 as a daughter house of | by Robert, Earl of Gloucester and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary ... |
Salzburg | ... k (17 January 1497, Ansbach–20 August 1536, Genoa), a canon in Würzburg and | |
Ashtown Castle | ... to Dublin Zoo, the official residence of the United States Ambassador, and | . Music concerts have also been performed in the park by many singers and ... |
Emily Dickinson Museum | ... ing four languages). Just off campus, Amherst is caretaker and owner of the | in downtown Amherst, in addition to about half of the poet's manuscripts. ... |
Playboy Mansion | ... , Sanchez refused to relocate a political fundraiser she had planned at the | in California. As a result, Democratic National Committee chairman Joe And ... |
Hamilton Palace | ... milton, forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, | . Many features of this period remain in the park, including the Duke's Br ... |
Mycenae | ... ace where she presided over her sisterhood, the Athenai, in earliest times: | was the city where the Goddess was called Mykene, and Mycenae is named in ... |
Danesfield House | In WW2 a Joint Imagery Intelligence unit was set up in | , Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, UK for British and US Intelligence Officer ... |
Shuafat | ... o to the residents of Arab neighborhoods of East and North East Jerusalem ( | , Bab a-Zahara and Beit Hanina), as seen in the light rail route map , the ... |
Vienna | ... and Fokker F.VII. Its first international service began on 2 August 1929 to | . It was also at this point in time that LOT's well-renowned logo (designe ... |
Ravenna | ... to restore the imperial authority in that province, and then passed through | , where he left a Gothic force under the new patricius and magister militu ... |
Norwich Castle | ... aunched—a collection of listed buildings in Norwich. The group consists of: | , Norwich Cathedral, The Great Hospital, The Halls – St Andrew's and Black ... |
Dunstanburgh | ... ting through to the starving garrisons. As a result the nearby Bamburgh and | castles soon agreed terms and surrendered. But Hungerford and Whittingham ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | ... s and artists. The Vasari Corridor is another gallery, built connecting the | with the Pitti Palace passing by the Uffizi and over the Ponte Vecchio. Th ... |
Camp Stoneman | ... st hills. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,769. | , located in the area, was a major staging area for the United States Army ... |
Caffè Lena | The city is also notable for its vibrant night life. | was one of the first venues in the Eastern US at which Bob Dylan performed ... |
Tower of London | ... alongside James Harrington and Samuel Moyer. He was then imprisoned in the | . He was freed on 27 July 1662 after a petition from his wife pleading his ... |
Rose Cliff | ... il his resignation in 1874. Then he lived in Washington, D.C., summering at | , Newport, Rhode Island |
Ravenna | ... nd Pope Gregory V (996–999), Otto III's cousin, appointed him Archbishop of | in 998. With the Emperor's support, he was elected to succeed Gregory V as ... |
El Capitan Theatre | ... ruz received the 2,436th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the | . She became the first Spanish actress to receive a Star |
Áras an Uachtaráin | ... Church on Upper Gardiner Street near Mountjoy Square, The Custom House, and | . The Poolbeg Towers are also iconic features of Dublin and are visible in ... |
Santa Severa | ... ctuary of ancient Pyrgi on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy (today the town of | ), are three golden leaves that record a dedication made around 500 BC by ... |
Kelmscott House | ... ressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at | , the home of William Morris. He was also among the founders of The Scienc ... |
Hardwick Hall | ... or later Elizabethan country house design, especially in the Midlands, with | being a classic example |
Osaka Castle | ... pened in 2001, is located in a 13-story modern building providing a view of | . Its exhibits cover the history of Osaka from pre-history to the present ... |
Radio City Music Hall | ... he first time together at the David Lynch Foundation Benefit Concert in the | , New York on 4 April 2009. Though, the song had been performed once with ... |
Stamford | ... o an industrial centre. Lord Exeter had opposed the railway passing through | , so Peterborough, situated between two main terminals at London and Donca ... |
Abbey | ... in my burgh of Dunfermline". The foundations of the church evolved into an | in 1128, under the reign of their son, David I. Dunfermline Abbey would pl ... |
Cadzow Castle | ... ch crosses the gorge. Older structures along the gorge include the ruins of | , started in the 13th century, and the Cadzow Oaks, a group of Oak trees, ... |
Palace of Whitehall | ... Anne be placed under house arrest at Anne's residence (the Cockpit) in the | ; both their husbands, though previously loyal to James, had switched thei ... |
Scientology centre | ... st Sussex town of East Grinstead where his parents studied Dianetics at the | in the town. They remained closely involved with Judaism; Gaiman's sister ... |
fortress of Lahore | ... ngs from the empire. Most prominent among them are the Badshahi mosque, the | with the famous Alamgiri Gate, the colourful, Persian-style Wazir Khan Mos ... |
St Maximin's Abbey | ... only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the | , near Trier. A century later, the Bastogne area went to the nearby Prüm A ... |
Uffizi | ... , built connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Pitti Palace passing by the | and over the Ponte Vecchio. The Galleria dell' Accademia houses a Michelan ... |
Mid-City New Orleans | ... theastern) corner of Carrollton Avenue's intersection with Tulane Avenue in | . After this, they played for two years at City Park Stadium, now called T ... |
Royal Palace of Madrid | ... ound in several European palaces including ones at Capodimonte, Naples, the | and the nearby Royal Palace of Aranjuez. and the Porcelain Tower of Nanjin ... |
Bamburgh | ... nted news getting through to the starving garrisons. As a result the nearby | and Dunstanburgh castles soon agreed terms and surrendered. But Hungerford ... |
Luton Hoo | The Earl held the Manor of Luton and had | designed and built by the neoclassical architect Robert Adam. Work commenc ... |
Arundel Castle | ... Raby castles, while the hall's roof design became famous and was copied at | and Westminster Hall |
Argos | ... ated that "he that wounded shall heal". Guided by the oracle, he arrived at | , where Achilles healed him in order that he might become their guide for ... |
Bessie Surtees House | ... ldings as well as structures dating from the 15th–18th centuries, including | , the Cooperage and Lloyds Quayside Bars, Derwentwater House and the curre ... |
Medmenham | In WW2 a Joint Imagery Intelligence unit was set up in Danesfield House, | in Buckinghamshire, UK for British and US Intelligence Officers to exploit ... |
Holwood House | ... actions include Down House (the home of Charles Darwin), Chislehurst Caves, | (the home of William Pitt the Younger), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site ... |
Black Isle | The McFarquhars of Redcastle brought a strong Jacobite contingent from the | to join the forces of the Earl of Cromarty and a rebel, John Ross joined t ... |
Winchester Castle | On 1 October 1207 at | , Isabella gave birth to a son and heir who was named Henry after the King ... |
Knossos | Although Athena appears before Zeus at | —in Linear B, as a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja, "Mistress Athena"—in the Classical O ... |
Otranto | ... f the exarch's errand before departing for Sicily, then Gallipoli, and then | , where the group stayed for winter. In the spring, Constantine crossed th ... |
The Custom House | ... Saint Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street near Mountjoy Square, | , and Áras an Uachtaráin. The Poolbeg Towers are also iconic features of D ... |
Royal Palace of Aranjuez | ... ding ones at Capodimonte, Naples, the Royal Palace of Madrid and the nearby | . and the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in China. More recent noteworthy exam ... |
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion | ... stinctive architecture (exemplified by the Pinang Peranakan Mansion and the | ), cuisine, elaborate costume and exquisite handicrafts |
Regensburg | He is honoured with a bust in the German Walhalla temple near | |
Vienna | ... atly at the passage of the Tagliamento, and in 1798 served as ambassador to | , but had to quit his post owing to the disturbances caused by his hoistin ... |
Fairfield House | ... aile Selassie spent his exile years (1936–1941) in Bath, United Kingdom, in | , which he bought. The emperor and Kassa Haile Darge took morning walks to ... |
Tower of London | ... he jewelry worn by his former queens. These remained in a coffer within the | . The duchess argued that the jewels belonged to the Queen of England, and ... |
Vienna | ... nclusively against André Masséna's French army in Italy), Napoleon occupied | . Far from his supply lines, he faced a larger Austro-Russian army under t ... |
Pavlovsk Palace | ... ch museum authorities, including the curators of Versailles (Massie, 1990). | was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, ... |
city walls | ... s of terraces on Monte Subasio. Roman remains can still be found in Assisi: | , the forum (now Piazza del Comune), a theatre, an amphitheatre and the Te ... |
Medeshamstede | ... The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, then known as | , which later became Peterborough Cathedral. The population grew rapidly f ... |
Marlborough House | ... led in an air crash while on active service. Queen Mary finally returned to | in June 1945, after the war in Europe had resulted in the defeat of Nazi G ... |
Uffizi | A youthful portrait by Andrea del Sarto ca 1517 is conserved at the | |
Westminster Abbey | ... Gloucester. She was crowned queen in an elaborate ceremony on 9 October at | in London. Isabella was originally betrothed to Hugh IX le Brun, Count of ... |
Dublin Castle | ... les and inspectors general under the control of the civil administration at | . By 1841 this force numbered over 8,600 men |
White House | ... , and Clair Wilcox. Automobile executive Henry Ford spent an evening at the | trying to convince Hoover to veto the bill, calling it "an economic stupid ... |
Minas Tirith | ... t Minas Anor, which eventually became the capital of Gondor and was renamed | . This palantír was used by the Kings of Gondor, but when Minas Ithil fell ... |
Basing House | ... to live." After the defeat of Hopton at Cheriton Down, Fuller retreated to | . He took an active part in its defence, and his life with the troops caus ... |
Nicopolis | ... hed some small Gothic detachments. Fritigern assembled the Gothic forces at | and Beroe to deal with this Roman threat. Socrates Scholasticus, Church Hi ... |
Elba | On 26 February 1815, Napoleon escaped from | and returned to France. He regained control of the country by May and face ... |
White House | ... Show and Sesame Street, as well as playing at a number of functions at the | |
Residenz | ... a prestigious church that met his expectations at a central location in his | town. Albrecht, who feared for his peace of mind in the heaven, had collec ... |
Abbotskerswell Priory | ... community of Augustinian canonesses who until 1983 lived at the convent at | , Devon. It is now preserved at Syon Abbey, near South Brent |
Great Hospital | ... s in Norwich. The group consists of: Norwich Castle, Norwich Cathedral, The | , The Halls – St Andrew's and Blackfriars', The Guildhall, Dragon Hall, Th ... |
Budapest | La Guardia joined the State Department and served in U.S. consulates in | , Trieste, and Rijeka (1901–1906). He returned to the U.S. to continue his ... |
Down House | Local attractions include | (the home of Charles Darwin), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home o ... |
Moscow Kremlin | ... state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus, renovated the | , and laid the foundations of the Russian state. He was one of the longest ... |
Wingfield Manor | ... he service staff, was lit with slits, similar to design at the contemporary | . The roof was built in 1376 by William Wintringham, producing the widest ... |
Palais Holnstein | ... al Gallery and the Ornate Rooms. He also ordered Cuvilliés to construct the | for one of his mistress, the Countess Holnstein |
Clonmacnoise | ... 1875. The church probably commemorates St. Ciarán (Kieran), the founder of | , a monastic settlement that had associations with Glendalough during the ... |
White House | ... Oscar DePriest, a member in the House of Representatives, to dinner at the | . Booker T. Washington was the previous African-American to have dined at ... |
Norwich Castle Museum | The largest is | . This contains extensive collections of archaeological finds from the cou ... |
Tartus | ... 1, Israeli missile boats sank two Syrian missile boats in an engagement off | . During the battle, a Soviet merchant ship was hit by Israeli missiles an ... |
Palace of Whitehall | ... 's service, Mary responded by evicting Sarah from her court lodgings at the | . Anne responded by leaving the court as well, and Sarah and she went to s ... |
Schlüsselburg | ... imants to the throne existed: Ivan VI (1740–1764), in closed confinement at | , in Lake Ladoga, from the age of 6 months; and Princess Tarakanova (1753– ... |
Kremlin | Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the | , the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the Pre ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | At the | , all monastic manors were seized by King Henry VIII. They were sold off o ... |
Ravenna | ... revolted against the Emperor, forcing Otto III and Sylvester II to flee to | . Otto III led two unsuccessful expeditions to regain control of the city, ... |
Blenheim Palace | ... was more capable of business than any man. Although she never came to like | – describing it as "that great heap of stones" – she became more enthusias ... |
Xanten | ... ions under Mummius Lupercus were defeated at Castra Vetera (near the modern | ) and surrounded. Eight cohorts of Batavian veterans joined their countrym ... |
Syrian Monastery | ... rescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery3.jpg|Iconostasis and frescos from the | , Scetes, Egyp |
Cliveden | ... , include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and | , designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe |
Westminster Abbey | ... result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Fuller preached a sermon at | , on 27 March 1643, on the anniversary of Charles I's accession, on the te ... |
Shlisselburg | ... onor. In fact, with Ivan VI (who was murdered and buried in the fortress of | ), he is the only post-Petrine monarch not buried in the Peter and Paul Ca ... |
Glendalough | ... l the Viking invasions in the eighth century. After raids on monasteries at | and Clondalkin, the monasteries at Glasnevin and Finglas were attacked and ... |
Waddesdon Manor | ... Rothschild bequeathed the glittering contents from his New Smoking Room at | as the Waddesdon Bequest. This consisted of almost 300 pieces of objets d' ... |
President Friedrich Ebert Memorial | ... facts from the region. In the honour of Friedrich Ebert one established the | which remembers the life of Germany's first democratic head of state. Besi ... |
Uffizi | ... visited Italian art museums, 2/3 are represented by Florentine museums. The | is one of these; one of the most famous and important art galleries in the ... |
White House | ... e Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street NW, several blocks southwest of the | . The central office is composed of eleven directorates: Director/Deputy D ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... Lambeth. He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located beside | , where the Chair of St. Augustine sits |
Lugdunum | ... w waters of the Saône to the quicker waters of the Rhone. He disembarked at | (Lyon). Maximian fled to Massilia (Marseille), a town better able to withs ... |
Budapest | ... pean train routes (Paris – Strasbourg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Munich – Vienna – | ). Direct connections to Berlin are also available |
Royal Palace of Madrid | ... to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the ceiling of the banqueting-hall of the | – considered among the best work of this artist |
Esztergom | ... I (Esztergom, Principality of Hungary, 967 or 969 or 975 – 15 August 1038, | or Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary), born as Vajk, was the Grand Prince ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ddlesex domesday map in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stanes. It was held by | . Its domesday assets were: 19 hides. It had 6 mills worth £3 4s 0d, 2 wei ... |
Pavlovsk Palace | ... the Rockefeller Foundation. Concurrently, in Russia, the restoration of the | located outside of Leningrad – today's Saint Petersburg – brought the atte ... |
Chatsworth House | ... endish, the sixth Duke of Devonshire and he relocated as ‘Head Gardener’ to | , Derbyshire |
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion | ... y ornate clan houses, temples, pre-war shophouses, and mansions such as the | . The Clan Jetties are a collection of water villages at Weld Quay. The In ... |
Vienna | ... the European train routes (Paris – Strasbourg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Munich – | – Budapest). Direct connections to Berlin are also available |
Chertsey Abbey | ... he manor of Downe. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was owned by | . It has been used for many purposes including the processing of corn, pap ... |
Skellig Michael | ... le that the cell had a stone-corbelled roof, similar to the beehive huts on | , County Kerry |
Kensington Palace | ... Park in 1702 that he fell from his horse, later dying from his injuries at | . He was succeeded by his sister-in-law Queen Anne who continued the decor ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | Downside Mill, Cobham was the mill of the manor of Downe. Until the | it was owned by Chertsey Abbey. It has been used for many purposes includi ... |
Budapest | ... the remotest districts into direct communication with the central point at | . The amalgamation of the ministry of commerce with the ministry of ways i ... |
Peterborough Cathedral | ... tablishment of a monastery, then known as Medeshamstede, which later became | . The population grew rapidly following the arrival of the railways in the ... |
Windsor Castle | ... re the occupied palaces in the United Kingdom such as Buckingham Palace and | |
Rideau Hall | ... is Oath of Allegiance before the Queen in person at her Canadian residence, | . Visiting Canada in 1969, Philip spoke about his views on republicanism |
Kelmscott Manor | ... nt, poetry, and life". In 1869, Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, | at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer home, but it soon became a retreat ... |
Mainz | Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz ( | ) and is said to have arrived at Popedom by evil art; for disguising herse ... |
Bolsover Castle | ... tions such as Bakewell, Buxton, and Derby. Local places of interest include | , Castleton, Chatsworth House, Crich Tramway Museum, Peak Rail steam railw ... |
Arsuf | ... where he could launch the attack on Jerusalem but on September 7, 1191, at | , north of Jaffa, Saladin attacked Richard's army |
Dublin Castle | ... re the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in | . Táin Bó Cuailgne ("The Cattle Raid of Cooley") refers to Dublind rissa r ... |
the palace | ... edieval-renaissance burgh. Some of the surviving buildings of the fire were | , the abbey and the Abbot's House |
Palace of Westminster | ... t was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the | |
Ravenna | ... in mid-March, 538. He witnessed Belisarius' entry into the Gothic capital, | , in 540. Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, sug ... |
a new governor's mansion | ... ax. Governor William Tryon's conspicuous consumption in the construction of | at New Bern fuelled the movement's resentment. As the western districts we ... |
Tuileries Palace | On 6 October 1789, the royal family had to leave Versailles and move to the | in Paris, as a result of the Women's March on Versailles. During the early ... |
Regensburg | The Bavarian Geographer, an anonymous medieval document compiled in | in 830, contains a list of the tribes in Central Eastern Europe to the eas ... |
Esztergom | Saint Stephen I ( | , Principality of Hungary, 967 or 969 or 975 – 15 August 1038, Esztergom o ... |
Croton | ... he was joined by the Lucanians, he devastated the territories of Thurii and | in an attempt to defend Locri |
Knossos | ... nted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of | |
Diocletian's Palace | ... d Burlington owned Andrea Palladio's drawings of the octagonal mausoleum at | at Split in modern Croatia). Archaeological remains have shown the Roman w ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... is held in trust, as are the occupied palaces in the United Kingdom such as | and Windsor Castle |
Warwick Castle | ... more before, closely resembling Kirby Muxloe and the Beauchamp gatehouse at | . By contrast the interior, with its contemporary wood panelling, is in th ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... s northern Berkshire County, as well as portions of Franklin County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Weiyang Palace | ... larged rebel groups. Eventually, an insurgent mob forced their way into the | and killed Wang Mang |
Old Sarum | ... c's son, Creoda. During his reign it is said that he captured Searobyrig or | , near Salisbury, in 552, and that in 556 he and his son Ceawlin won a bat ... |
Viennese | ... sed during Pachelbel's late Nuremberg years, are influenced by the Italian- | style and distinguish themselves from their antecedents by treating the ca ... |
Sanquhar Castle | ... castles that have been held by the Clan Ross include Portencross Castle and | |
Dáil Éireann | Glasnevin is part of the | constituency of Dublin Centra |
Elba | The victors exiled Napoleon to the island of | , and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of Louis XVIII. T ... |
Portencross Castle | Other castles that have been held by the Clan Ross include | and Sanquhar Castl |
Singidunum | ... nvaded in 441. The Hunnish army sacked Margus and Viminacium, and then took | (modern Belgrade) and Sirmium. During 442 Theodosius recalled his troops f ... |
Virginia Historical Society | ... 07, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History and the | (VHS) co-organized a traveling exhibition to recount the strategic allianc ... |
Windsor Castle | ... d and recovered quickly, and was released three days later to recuperate at | . In August the same year, the Evening Standard newspaper reported that Ph ... |
Holwood | ... t's estate in Kent. Under what came to be known as the "Wilberforce Oak" at | , Pitt challenged his friend: "Wilberforce, why don’t you give notice of a ... |
Fossombrone | He was born in | (Pesaro), and probably was educated at Urbino. Around 1490 he went to Veni ... |
Elizabeth Arden | To support himself, he worked at a number of office jobs, most famously at | – immortalised in the lyrics of "I'm Not Angry" as the "vanity factory" – ... |
Westminster Abbey | Christina Nilsson was married in | to the French banker Auguste Rouzaud, who later died in 1882. In 1887 she ... |
Medeshamstede | Peterborough is shown by its original name | to have possibly been an Anglian settlement before AD 655, when Saxwulf fo ... |
Höfði | He resided at | house in northern Reykjavik for many years |
Vienna | ... garian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in | until his death five years later. (See: Siege of Vienna (1485) ) Ultimatel ... |
George Stickney House | ... dstock, and a variety of historical homes including the Orson Rogers House, | , Charles H. Hibbard House, the Terwilliger House, the Count's House, and ... |
Cologne | Ernst was born on April 2, 1891, in Brühl, near | , the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father ... |
United Palace Theater | ... n years. The tour started on 17 September 2008 in the United States, at the | in New York City, and finished with a concert in Reykjavík at Laugardalshö ... |
Croton | After his travels, Pythagoras moved (around 530 BC) to | , in Italy (Magna Graecia). Possibly the tyranny of Polycrates in Samos ma ... |
Palais des Papes | ... rders, though without much success. He also ordered the construction of the | in Avignon. He spent most of his time working on questions of theology. He ... |
10 Downing Street | ... , Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo) presented the declaration to | on Wednesday 12 December 2001 |
Dublin Castle | ... ntelligence in Ireland, causing many other agents and informers to flee for | , and caused consternation in the British administration |
Campo de Cahuenga | ... nel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at | in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
Dol Amroth | ... he was wounded and nearly slain but the cavalry charge of Prince Imrahil of | and Gandalf saved him and the counter-attack allowed the rest of Gondor's ... |
abbey | The town was founded around an early 8th century | , which was once one of the largest in Europe. The abbey was destroyed dur ... |
Monastery of Saint Mina | File:Monastery of Abu Mena (03-2009).jpg| | , Western Desert, Egyp |
Piombino | ... Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca (later a Duchy) and the Principality of | were independent from Florence |
Uffizi | ... his deft and lively chalk portraits of friends are in the collection of the | . For Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, brother of Ferdinando II de' Medici, G ... |
Holy Cross Abbey | ... the term by Jim Garvin, a Vietnam veteran who became a Trappist monk in the | of Berryville, Virginia, and went on to lead the economic development of P ... |
Cologne | ... 300 hopefuls turned up to auditions in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, | , Oberhausen, Stuttgart and Munich which required both singing and dancing ... |
Alton Towers | ... narrative at two British tourist attractions: the Nemesis roller coaster at | , Staffordshire; and the London Dungeon, a museum depicting gory and macab ... |
The Crystal Palace | ... the home of William Pitt the Younger), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site of | |
Holdenby House | ... cribed as "upon clay, an ill sod, very damp and...an unhealthy place"), and | near Althorp, she kept detailed accounts of her finances and expenditure, ... |
Domus Aurea | ... forms in their buildings, such as the underground octagonal hall in Nero's | |
Vienna | ... er this success she sang at major opera houses in London, Saint Petersburg, | and New York. She also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's inaugural perf ... |
Playboy Mansion | ... began to sponsor tournaments and Hugh Hefner held backgammon parties at the | . Backgammon clubs were formed and tournaments were held, resulting in a W ... |
White House | ... nd his brand of humor caused Wilson to move Marshall's office away from the | . During Marshall's second term he delivered morale-boosting speeches acro ... |
Stamford | ... in 1643 when soldiers arrived in the city to attack Royalist strongholds at | and Crowland. The Royalist forces were defeated within a few weeks and ret ... |
Salerno | ... connecting all the country's major cities. The first line connects Milan to | via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin to Veni ... |
Louvre | ... n England, and the closest parallel is the now demolished water-gate at the | in Paris. The dock was covered with arrowslits in case of an attack on the ... |
Aston Hall | ... stmas festivities of earlier times that he had experienced while staying at | , attracted Dickens, and the two authors shared the belief that the stagin ... |
Petit Trianon | ... achievements of Louis XV’s reign were the construction of the Opéra and the | (Verlet, 1985). Equally significant was the destruction of the Escalier de ... |
home | ... f Juan Morel Campos that adorns the Plaza Las Delicias city square, and the | where Paoli was born and raised functions as the Puerto Rico Center for Fo ... |
Blue Cloud Abbey | | is a Benedictine monastery located near Marvin |
Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Monastery | ... rt, a promiment Cherokee Indian. The population was 543 at the 2000 census. | is a Benedictine Monastery located in Hulbert. The Clear Creek Monastery, ... |
Lambeth Palace | The archbishop's main residence is | in the London Borough of Lambeth. He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, ... |
Carnuntum | ... tic city of Elbląg (Elbing). From there, traders continued further south to | in the Alps. This was called the Amber Road. The ancient amber roads led f ... |
Mainz | ... y). Wiesbaden, together with the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt and | , is part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, a metropolitan area with a c ... |
Great Hospital | ... ), the Octagon Chapel (1756), St Helen's House (1752) in the grounds of the | , and innovative speculative housing in Surrey Street (c. 1761). Ivory sho ... |
Hughenden Manor | ... eden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjamin Disraeli who lived at | and was made Earl of Beaconsfield, John Hampden who was from Great Hampden ... |
San Miniato al Monte | ... ng Santa Trinita, San Marco, Santa Felicita, Badia Fiorentina, San Gaetano, | , Florence Charterhouse, and Santa Maria del Carmine. The city additionall ... |
White House | ... made himself President of the United States. Living in the Nazi redecorated | , Red Skull had taken to wearing Captain America's old bloodstained unifor ... |
Teishebaini | ... rtified settlements from the Bronze Age include Shengavit, Tsitsernakaberd, | , Arin Berd, Karmir Berd and Berdadzor. Archaeological evidence, such as a ... |
Burghley House | ... also holds regular temporary exhibitions, weekend events and guided tours. | to the north of Peterborough, near Stamford, was built and mostly designed ... |
Wemyss Castle | ... ithin the University of St Andrews Library; another, within the confines of | and the eighth, privately owned by Mister John Ferguson of Duns, Berwicksh ... |
Torre Abbey | ... h having a market and fair in 1294. The first major building in Torquay was | , a Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1196. Percy Russell, A History ... |
Carisbrooke Castle | ... 11 November. Hammond, however, was opposed to Charles, whom he confined in | |
Lugdunum | ... Rotomagus. Roman Rotomagus was the second city of Gallia Lugdunensis after | (Lyon) itself. Under the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian, Rouen ... |
Karmir Berd | ... the Bronze Age include Shengavit, Tsitsernakaberd, Teishebaini, Arin Berd, | and Berdadzor. Archaeological evidence, such as a cuneiform inscription, i ... |
Dublin Castle | ... , but in a room (now called the "Connolly Room") at the State Apartments in | , which had been converted to a first-aid station for troops recovering fr ... |
Elba | ... r different from its current shape. During the last Ice Age, the islands of | and Sicily were connected to the mainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smalle ... |
Bonn | ... he enrolled at University of Leiden to study chemistry. He then studied in | , Germany with Friedrich Kekulé and in Paris with C. A. Wurtz. He received ... |
Vienna | ... petition was launched by the bank to design a new building. It was won by a | -based architectural office named Coop Himmelbau. The building will be app ... |
Dorje Pakmo | ... e died while meditating in 1474 at the age of 84 (83 by Western reckoning). | (1422–1455), the highest female incarnation in Tibet, was a contemporary o ... |
Alexander Palace | ... las, Alexandra, and their children confined in their primary residence, the | at Tsarskoye Selo, until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1 ... |
Marylake Carmelite Monastery | East End is the home of | since the 1950s. Scenes from Burt Reynolds' movie White Lightning were sho ... |
Pylos | In Mycenaean | , Demeter and Persephone were potniai (the mistresses). In classical Greec ... |
Aljafería | ... in, Aragon has an elected regional parliament or cortes, which meets in the | , a Moorish palace in the capital city, Zaragoza. The Parliament chooses a ... |
The Castle | ... include Norwich Cathedral, the cobbled streets and museums of old Norwich, | , Cow Tower, Colman's Mustard Shop, Dragon Hall and The Forum. Norwich is ... |
Young Pioneer camp | ... ry film crew and spending time with Nikita Khrushchev. Robeson also visited | Artek before returning to the UK |
Lion House | ... and the marital status of six others are unknown. In 1856, Young built the | to accommodate his sizable family. This building remains a Salt Lake City ... |
Vienna | ... he was called up for National Service in 1949, but his military service in | gave him contact with American troops, and access to records as well as th ... |
Dublin Castle | ... ice were officially unauthorised and were greeted with public horror by the | -based British authorities. In an effort to cover up the nature of the beh ... |
Chatsworth House | ... country home of Fitzwilliam Darcy—is situated in Derbyshire. In that novel, | in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits befor ... |
Stamford, Lincolnshire | ... shire in 1521, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate (near | ), and his wife, Jane Heckington |
Santa Maria del Carmine | ... is among the first examples of Baroque architecture built in the city; the | , in the Oltrarno district of Florence, which is the location of the Branc ... |
Dublin Castle | ... mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and pronouncing himself Lord of Ireland. | , which became the centre of English power in Ireland, was founded in 1204 ... |
Tsarskoye Selo | ... as a trade envoy. On 28 June 1791, Catherine granted Kōdayū an audience at | . Subsequently, in 1792, the Russian government dispatched a trade mission ... |
Palace of Versailles | ... und. The author-aviator initially complained "I wanted a hut [but it's] the | "; however as the weeks wore on and the author became invested in the proj ... |
Salerno | ... anded the 12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade during the landing of Allied Forces at | , Italy, Operation Avalanche |
Budapest | ... forces, including IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian), defending | , were encircled in the Siege of Budapest. The IV SS Panzer Corps (3 SS To ... |
Oregon State Senate District 29 | ... rict 57 which is currently represented by Greg Smith. It is also located in | , represented by David Nelson. Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republ ... |
White House | At the | Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill cre ... |
Tsarskoye Selo | ... their children confined in their primary residence, the Alexander Palace at | , until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by th ... |
White House | ... nner attended by Queen Elizabeth II on May 7, 2007, in the East Room at the | |
Sandringham House | ... n the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased his country seat of | in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, includin ... |
Ravenna | ... us Honorius, Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government to | and Rome's population declined to a mere 20,000 during the Early Middle Ag ... |
Budapest | Steiner was born in Ofen, near | in Hungary, and died in Baden, Lower Austria. He had two sons: Franz Stein ... |
Cologne | Shells were tested successfully at the Wahn artillery range near | on 9 January 1915, and an order was placed for 15 cm howitzer shells, desi ... |
Gandersheim | ... tion, Judith had an older half-sister, Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and | , born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of Denmark |
Vienna | On August 10, 1933, aged 19, she married Friedrich Mandl, a | -based arms manufacturer 13 years her senior. In her autobiography Ecstasy ... |
Vienna | ... Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an international organization headquartered in | , Austria, was created to build the verification regime, including establi ... |
Shaftesbury Abbey | ... e known as St Edward the Martyr, from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at | . In 984, in obedience to a vision of St Andrew, he persuaded King Æthelre ... |
Indiana Senate | Boone County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district, | districts 21 and 23, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 28, 38 ... |
John Hancock Center | ... ofile skyscrapers, the Willis Tower, known then as the Sears Tower, and the | . Daley defended his decision with the now-infamous quote "Mickey Mouse ha ... |
Mainz | The capital of the province of Germania Superior, Mogontiacum (present-day | ), base of 2 (at times 3) Roman legions, was just over the Rhine and conne ... |
Fawley Court | ... on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt | and received a deputation from the Lords. The period of prosperity in the ... |
Wyntoon | ... on the McCloud River in Siskiyou County, in far northern California, called | . Wyntoon was designed by famed architect Julia Morgan, who also designed ... |
Adrianople | ... arious local rebels) led by Fritigern. The battle took place about north of | (modern Edirne in European Turkey, near the border with Greece and Bulgari ... |
Dukes of Nassau | ... ns. The descendants of Walram became known as the Walram Line, which became | , and in 1890, the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg. The descendants of Otto beca ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | King Henry VIII's | brought about the closure of Wymondham Abbey, which was surrendered to the ... |
John Hancock Center | ... tallest building in the world. Of these buildings, the most notable are the | and Sears Tower in Chicago, both designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan ... |
White House | ... re's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the | . . . I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living." Sheen is an honorary ... |
Castle Cornet | ... ; there were a few Royalist uprisings in the southwest of the island, while | was occupied by the Governor, Sir Peter Osborne, and Royalist troops. Cast ... |
Tantallon Castle | ... s in his favour with total disregard for the law. Soon he was imprisoned in | . Later he was released on the condition that he would live peacefully but ... |
Dáil Éireann | ... ntly an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil–Green Party government in | until March 2011 |
Royal Palace | ... of the most important, as King Philip II was born here on 21 May 1527. The | (where King Philip IV of Spain and Queen Anne of France, mother of Louis X ... |
Winter Palace | ... , literature, and education. The Hermitage Museum, which occupies the whole | , began as Catherine's personal collection. At the instigation of her fact ... |
Regensburg | ... Pressburg and vainly sought to secure the submission of the Hungarians. At | , Bamberg and Worms, the papal presence was celebrated with various eccles ... |
White House | ... or the meetings. Mahogany furniture patterned after the Cabinet Room of the | was ordered from Washington, D.C |
Goodwood House | ... Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at | , and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" for its columns. Bo ... |
Kerak | In 1167 the episcopal see of Hebron was created along with that of | and Sebastia (the tomb of John the Baptist) |
Indiana Senate | Lawrence County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district | ;district 44; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 62 and 65 |
Port-Royal | ... s is often seen in his relation to the latter movement of Jansenism and the | theologians such as Blaise Pascal |
Abbey | ... stablished a new church dedicated to the Holy Trinity which evolved into an | under their son, David I in 1128. The graveyard of this abbey would become ... |
Vienna | ... as born and grew up in the little village of Atzgersdorf (now Liesing) near | . The Bertalanffy family had roots in the 16th century nobility of Hungary ... |
Castle of Mey | ... Atlantis Resources Corporation announced it was considering a site near the | for a computer data centre that would be powered by a tidal scheme in the ... |
Pavia | ... to murder someone else. He finishes by describing her death as a beggar in | . This Eadburh is not the same as Alfred's mother-in-law, also named Eadbu ... |
Kensington Palace | Princess Victoria Mary ("May") of Teck was born on 26 May 1867 at | , London. Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Ale ... |
Vienna | A mission to | to secure the return of Marie Louise resulted in failure. He was present a ... |
the nearby monastery | ... pproximately 5,000 years old. The Russian Orthodox Church owns the site and | |
Alnwick Castle | ... or the series was considerable, with much location shooting particularly at | in Northumberland and the surrounding countryside in February 1983. The se ... |
Walnut Grove Plantation | Roebuck is home to the | , a preserved 18th-century farmhouse and tourist attraction. One of the da ... |
Chatsworth House | Paxton was the head gardener at | . There he had experimented with the newly invented cast plate glass (1848 ... |
grange | ... Accrington to the monks of Kirkstall in the 12th century. The monks built a | there; removing the inhabitants to make room for it. The locals got their ... |
Palazzo Spini Feroni | ... Assicurazioni Generali, designed in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1871; the | , in Piazza Santa Trinita, a historic 13th-century private palace, owned s ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... olved by housemaid Jane Bee, with the Queen's help. Titles include Death at | , Death at Sandringham House, and Death at Windsor Castle. He is also the ... |
White House | ... darin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the | when they wanted to foil eavesdroppers. The Boxer Rebellion trapped the Ho ... |
Cliveden | ... l political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in | , Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington ... |
Farmleigh | ... a press office. In 2001, the Irish state opened a guest residence nearby in | , a former Guinness family mansion |
Warwick Castle | ... val to Roger de Beaumont, the Earl of Warwick and owner of the neighbouring | , and the king made Clinton the sheriff in Warwickshire to act as a counte ... |
La Fortaleza | ... ported to have used the islands as a staging ground for his later attack on | in Puerto Rico |
Cologne | ... died in 1504, and the following year an arrangement was made at the Diet of | by which the emperor and Philip's grandson, Otto Henry, obtained certain o ... |
Chagri Monastery | ... r. After a stay of nearly eight months Cacella wrote a long letter from the | reporting the travel. This is a rare report of the Shabdrung remaining |
Hearst Castle | ... ment of the lead character in Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane. His mansion, | , near San Simeon, California, on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, ha ... |
Queen's House | ... George I rewarded the Whigs by forming a Whig government; at his welcome in | at , he conversed with the Whigs but not with the Tories. Sarah approved o ... |
Klaarkamp Abbey | The first known owners of Schiermonnikoog were the monks of | , a Cistercian monastery near Rinsumageest, on the mainland. "Monnik" mean ... |
Kirkstall | Robert de Lacy gave the manor of Accrington to the monks of | in the 12th century. The monks built a grange there; removing the inhabita ... |
Akershus Fortress | ... s wife Märtha are buried in the green sarcophagus in the Royal Mausoleum at | |
Murrell Home | File:Murrell home.jpg| | , built 1844- |
Vyborg | Baltiysk, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, | , Vysotsk |
White House | ... aoui and Reid had intended to hijack a fifth aircraft and crash it into the | in Washington, D.C., as part of the attacks that took place that day. Howe ... |
Apostolic Palace | ... nsible for the safety of the Pope since 1506, including the security of the | and access to the entrances to the Vatican City. Its official language is ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... ishop Lanfranc to a tomb on the south side of the high altar in the rebuilt | |
Basilica of Saint Francis | ... st-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper | in Assisi. A person who creates fresco is called a frescoist |
Dublin Castle | ... andowners of fewer than a hundred boroughs. Wellesley continued to serve at | , voting with the government in the Irish parliament over the next two yea ... |
Vienna | ... orn in Berlin, Germany. He was raised in Graz, Austria and studied music in | . His mother, Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the g ... |
White House | ... on in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control of the | |
Enna | ... rgamon, Selinus, Tegea, Thoricus, Dion (in Macedonia) Lykosoura, Mesembria, | , and |
Winchester Castle | ... similar to, although slightly smaller than, that also built by Henry III at | . Near Wakefield Tower was a postern gate which allowed private access to ... |
St. James's Palace | Bentley had official apartments in | , and his first care was the royal library. He worked to restore the colle ... |
Sandringham House | ... with the Queen's help. Titles include Death at Buckingham Palace, Death at | , and Death at Windsor Castle. He is also the author of Death in Cold Type ... |
Grosnez Castle | ... ndes Racecourse can be found at Les Landes in St. Ouen next to the ruins of | |
Vienna | ... ld daughter Cäcilia returned to Posen, while he pondered whether to move to | or go back to Berlin. A delay of six months was caused by severe illness. ... |
Zaikonospassky monastery | ... laws was considerably mitigated. He founded the academy of sciences in the | , where everything not expressly forbidden by the Orthodox church, includi ... |
Budapest | ... Guardia Gluck, was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 when they took control of | . They knew she was Fiorello's sister and was held as a political prisoner ... |
Windsor Castle | ... nclude Death at Buckingham Palace, Death at Sandringham House, and Death at | . He is also the author of Death in Cold Type, a murder mystery set in Win ... |
Kendal Castle | It was first thought that Catherine Parr was born at | in Westmorland, England. However, at the time of her birth, Kendal Castle ... |
Mainz | ... lergy in Reims in which several important reforming decrees were passed. At | he held a council at which the Italian and French as well as the German cl ... |
Radio City | ... ered the band The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger during a live performance at | on , 2008. The duo, commonly referred to as 'The GOASTT', host their music ... |
Villers Abbey | In the north of the village, lie the ruins of the | , which was one of the most important Cistercian abbeys of Europe |
Holdenby House | ... with Parliament and delivered Charles to them in 1647. He was imprisoned at | in Northamptonshire, until cornet George Joyce took him by force to Newmar ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... was a scholar under Richard Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to | in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself completely to his stud ... |
ramparts | ... riving Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC) city of more than , with commanding | including the oldest arched city gate in the world, eight feet wide, and e ... |
Litchfield Law School | ... rarian (1821–1823) at Brown University. He also studied during 1821–1823 at | (the law school conducted by Judge Tapping Reeve in Litchfield, Connecticu ... |
Fort Duckburg | ... the fort, on Kill Mole Hill where Scrooge built his Money Bin in 1902. (See | ) |
Dryburgh Abbey | ... III there were 35 houses. Soon after their arrival in England, they founded | in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities a ... |
House of Orange-Nassau | ... ater also King of England, Scotland and Ireland, William III from the Dutch | . In 1703 Spanish and French allied forces briefly occupied Nassau |
Westminster Abbey | | is another example of a great Benedictine abbey, identical in its general ... |
Santa Cruz College | ... y, whose Baroque façade is decorated with various academic symbols, and the | , which as well as housing a library forms one of the first examples of th ... |
White House | ... President Wilson on the subject. The resulting report, much watered down at | insistence, was not a success |
Southsea Castle | ... some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII built | and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Navy he founded. In 1545, ... |
Ravenna | ... in his father's expedition in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of | , and to install Galla Placidia and her son, Valentinian III, in his place ... |
Murrell Home | ... ant sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the | , the Ross Cemetery, and the original Cherokee Female Seminary. The Cherok ... |
Ravenna | ... he legitimacy of the supposed marriage proposal. Attila sent an emissary to | to proclaim that Honoria was innocent, that the proposal had been legitima ... |
Mycenae | ... , and through Pelops the line of Tantalus was part of the founding myths of | 's second dynasty |
Enna | ... med to receive visions of Atargatis, whom he identified with the Demeter of | |
Holkham Hall | ... for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at | , Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the ... |
Peterborough Abbey | ... er, his fame spread and lived on. In an undated catalogue of the library at | , most likely from the 14th century, he is listed as a part author of ten ... |
Rashtrapati Niwas | ... amples can also be found in buildings in the former British Empire, such as | , the Viceregal Lodge at Shimla |
Marlborough House | ... lborough became one of the king's close advisers, and Sarah moved back into | , where she flaunted her eldest granddaughter, Lady Henrietta Godolphin, i ... |
Argos | #Medon (Μήδων), a son of Ceisus and grandson of Temenus. He was a king of | but his powers were limited to the minimum in favor of the people's self-g ... |
St Mary's Abbey, York | | , of which the ground-plan is annexed, exhibits the usual Benedictine arra ... |
Blickling Estate | ... ld it to Sir John Hobart, and through him it passed to the ownership of the | . The current lords of the manor are the National Trust |
Bohus Fortress | ... This combination is the longest river in the Nordic countries, 750 km . The | is located by the river at . Here the river splits into two, with the nort ... |
Royal Lodge | ... live at the Duke's home, Sunninghill Park, until 2004, when he moved to the | . In 2003, Richard Kay, in his first gossip column for the Daily Mail, ass ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... ed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the | , on orders from King Henry VIII. The king also destroyed Becket's bones a ... |
Minas Morgul | After Minas Ithil had fallen and been renamed | , the Pelennor Fields were surrounded by the great wall of Rammas Echor, t ... |
Dore Abbey | ... n his family pedigree painted at Theobalds. The family had connections with | . However, the move to Stamford provides information concerning the Lord T ... |
Bradenstoke Priory | ... ooms from castles and palaces in Europe. The Great Hall was bought from the | in Wiltshire and reconstructed brick by brick in its current site at St. D ... |
Dublin Castle | The Times which during the war was a pro-Unionist publication, ridiculed | 's version of events, as did a British Labour Party delegation visiting Ir ... |
Vienna | ... tz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in the Czech Republic) and died in | . He is called the Father of the Republic because he headed the first gove ... |
Pylos | ... s are linked in the earliest scratched notes in Linear B found at Mycenaean | , where they appear as DA-MA-TE and PO-SE-DA-O-NE in the context of sacral ... |
Camp Concordia | ... rving in the war effort. Large internment camps were established in Kansas: | , Camp Funston (at Fort Riley), Camp Phillips (at Salina under Fort Riley) ... |
Palazzo Davanzati | ... n 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino; the | , which houses the museum of the Old Florentine House; the Palazzo delle A ... |
Indiana Senate | ... t and is represented in Congress by Democrat Baron Hill. It is also part of | districts 47 and 48, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 63, 73 ... |
Clarendon Palace | The Assize takes its name from | , Wiltshire, the royal hunting lodge at which it was promulgated |
Mycenae | Languages that use syllabic writing include | an Greek (Linear B), the North American languages Cherokee and Cree, the A ... |
Hadrianopolis | ... negs' campaign against the Byzantine Empire and was killed in a battle near | |
Buchenwald concentration camp | ... n World War II. During the war, it was the site of a women's subcamp of the | . Today in Gelsenkirchen there are no collieries any more and Gelsenkirche ... |
Kykuit | ... tting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The Rockefeller family estate (see | ), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the private Rockefe ... |
Wettin dynasty | ... uin, together with most peasant farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon | , Augustus II and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegr ... |
Windsor Castle | ... 1220s and 1230s, becoming comparable with other palatial residences such as | . Construction of Wakefield and Lanthorn Towers – located at the corners o ... |
Winslow House | ... e are significant architectural designs located in River Forest such as the | by Frank Lloyd Wright. The population was 11,635 at the 2000 census |
White House | ... nd newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's | correspondent, Helen Thomas, resigned her position, after working for UPI ... |
Florence Charterhouse | ... Marco, Santa Felicita, Badia Fiorentina, San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, | , and Santa Maria del Carmine. The city additionally contains the Orthodox ... |
Backnang Abbey | ... om dominate the town's industries. The Stiftskirche, formerly the church of | , dates back to the 12th century |
Fort Duckburg | ... tablishment that in 1818 was taken over by Cornelius Coot and later renamed | |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... hed, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King Henry VIII during the | to pray for his soul. In 2006, 39.4% of Peterborough local education autho ... |
Knossos | ... "Hannahannah" shortened in various places to "Ana" . In Mycenaean Greek, at | a single inscription A-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja /Athana potniya/ appears in the L ... |
château de Fontainebleau | ... u, a favourite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historical | , which once belonged to the kings of France, It is also the home of INSEA ... |
Chatham Manor | ... now a historic house museum administered by University of Mary Washington. | , the 1771 home of William Fitzhugh and a Union headquarters during the Ci ... |
Passau | ... phistophiles already appears in the 1527 Praxis Magia Faustiana, printed in | , alongside pseudo-Hebrew text. It is best explained as a purposely obscur ... |
New York State Senate | ... of New York's 27th congressional district (served by Brian Higgins) and the | 57th district (served by Catharine Young). Prior to 2003, the county was p ... |
Budapest | ... 5. Spassky then played young female prodigy Judit Polgár in a 1993 match at | , losing narrowly by 4.5–5.5 |
Pilėnai | In 1336, the defenders of | in Lithuania set their castle on fire and committed mass suicide in order ... |
Knaresborough Castle | Becket's assassins fled north to | , which was held by Hugh de Morville, where they remained for about a year ... |
Vienna | ... or Eleonora Habsburżanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at | , daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his third wife Eleonor ... |
Suffolk House | ... nglican Church – all of which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The | , the former residence of Penang's British governors, on the banks of the ... |
Ponce Massacre Museum | The history of this event can be viewed at the | on Marina Street. An open-air park in the city, the Pedro Albizu Campos Pa ... |
George Stephenson's Birthplace | | is an 18th century historic house museum in the village of Wylam, and is o ... |
Harlaxton Manor | ... es Pennethorne and Anthony Salvin, both later knighted. Salvin's Jacobethan | , near Grantham, Lincolnshire, its first sections completed in 1837, is th ... |
Sunninghill Park | ... n their parents, and the Duchess even continued to live at the Duke's home, | , until 2004, when he moved to the Royal Lodge. In 2003, Richard Kay, in h ... |
New Jerusalem Monastery | ... nd. They include the of Görlitz, constructed between 1481 and 1504, and the | in Moscow Oblast, constructed by Patriarch Nikon between 1656 to 1666 |
Vienna | Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (September 19, 1901, Atzgersdorf near | – June 12, 1972, Buffalo, New York) was an Austrian-born biologist known a ... |
Hobcaw Barony | ... pproximately 15,560 acres (63 square kilometers) of the former 18th century | , also known as Bellefield Plantation, located on a peninsula called Wacca ... |
Vienna | On the request of the Albanian government and the Academy of Sciences in | , he continued the work of Jireček and Thalloczy, editing the 3rd book of ... |
Raby | ... astles in northern England similarly decorated, such as Bothal, Lumley, and | |
Westminster Abbey | ... n and Mary, Queen of Scots. The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to | by her son James I when he became King of England |
Barad-dûr | ... to Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War of the Ring was kept by him in | . It was presumably lost at the fall of Sauron, but since the Stones are v ... |
Worcester Cathedral | After being ordained, Bentley was promoted to a prebendal stall in | . In 1693 the curator of the royal library became vacant, and his friends ... |
Regensburg | ... h: Eleonora Wiśniowiecka or Eleonora Habsburżanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at | died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his ... |
Ravenna | ... Maxentius' bribes, most of the army defected to Maxentius. Severus fled to | , which Maximian besieged. The city was strongly fortified so Maximian off ... |
Castle Leod | In 1689 100 men of the Clan Ross occupied | to watch for movements of the Jacobite MacKenzies |
Vienna | ... the same year his teacher did; at any rate, by 1673 Pachelbel was living in | , where he became a deputy organist at the famous Saint Stephen Cathedral ... |
Westminster Abbey | Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at | on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him Duke of York, Earl of ... |
Apsley House | ... owning Street, finding it too small. He moved in only because his own home, | , required extensive renovations. During this time he was largely instrume ... |
Sandringham Estate | ... e, in London. The new Duke and Duchess of York lived in York Cottage on the | in Norfolk, and in apartments in St James's Palace. York Cottage was a mod ... |
Vienna | ... n Austria is similar to Germany. There are just six career fire services in | , Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Linz. As of 2007, some 4,527 v ... |
Regensburg | ... ion for this area was Castra Regina, now and since the Middle Ages known as | . |
Dublin Castle | ... bbed to death with surgical knives while walking back to the residence from | . A small insurgent group called the Invincibles was responsible for the d ... |
White House | ... t would get $50); and "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" or "What color is the | ?" (asked when Marx felt sorry for a contestant who had not won anything). ... |
Sudbury Hall | ... eak Estate, Ilam Park, Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Estate near Hathersage, and | on the Staffordshire border |
Ravenna | ... . On October 17, 1739, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni, legate (papal governor) of | who in 1739, aiding certain rebels, possibly contrary to the orders of Pop ... |
Voruta | ... sentence in the Hypatian Chronicle mentions Mindaugas defending himself in | against his nephews and Duke Vykintas; two other sources mention "his cast ... |
Palace of Whitehall | ... the main residences of the English Sovereign until Henry VIII acquired the | . Whitehall was destroyed by fire in 1698, leading to a shift to St James' ... |
White House | ... to help. Dwight Eisenhower loved the film and frequently screened it in the | , as did many other American presidents. Bill Clinton cited High Noon as h ... |
Wawel | ... good player. He received the Ukrainian chess grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow at | castle. Frank was a patron of General Government chess tournaments (1940–1 ... |
Croton | ... siting Egypt and other places seeking knowledge. Around 530 BC, he moved to | , a Greek colony in southern Italy, and there set up a religious sect. His ... |
Chequers | ... rent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who has an official residence at | . Finally John Archdale colonial governor of North Carolina and , although ... |
Tower of London | ... ged with his oldest daughter, Margaret Roper while he was imprisoned in the | awaiting execution |
Blenheim Palace | The Marlboroughs also lost state funding for | , and the building came to a halt for the first time since it was begun in ... |
Bonn | ... orrect the illness. He died of Wegener's granulomatosis at the age of 36 in | , Germany in 1894, and was buried in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg at the Jewish cemet ... |
Winter Palace | ... r of government buildings on 24 October 1917 (O.S.). The following day, the | (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital ... |
Augsburg | ... h point a total of 1,160 of all versions had been produced by Messerschmitt | and Dornier München. When it arrived, it was liked by its crews, even thou ... |
Stenton | ... y as holding estates at Riccarton, Tarbolton, and Auchincruive in Kyle, and | in Haddingtonshire. They were vassals of James Stewart, 5th High Steward o ... |
Dáil Éireann | Lynch was first elected to | as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork in 1948, and was re-elected at each genera ... |
Vienna | ... Battle of Trafalgar the following day, French success on land continued as | fell in November, replete with 100,000 muskets, 500 cannon, and the intact ... |
Cologne | ... he Bructeri, and made a bridge across the Rhine at Colonia Agrippinensium ( | ). In 310, he marched to the northern Rhine and fought the Franks. When no ... |
Ardenne Abbey massacre | ... n front on 7 June, in the Caen area. The same day they were involved in the | . The next unit to arrive was the 17 SS Götz von Berlichingen on 11 June, ... |
Croome Court | ... the finest country houses and estates in Britain. His work still endures at | (where he also designed the house), Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, Harew ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... in were brought in procession through the streets of London for funerals at | and Westminster Cathedral. When Joseph Devlin, an Irish Parliamentary Part ... |
Nijmegen | ... e way to Moscow. The intercity lines provide direct connections to Utrecht, | , and Zutphen. It is also the terminus for several local railway services. ... |
Edirne | ... ) led by Fritigern. The battle took place about north of Adrianople (modern | in European Turkey, near the border with Greece and Bulgaria) in the Roman ... |
Helm's Deep | ... ddition, sends the Huorns to attack Saruman's Orcs who were retreating from | . In a deleted scene, Treebeard mentions to the hobbits about the Entwives ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... and, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and | , and formed the "Oxford Methodist" group among his fellow students in 172 ... |
Tower of London | ... f Worcester on 3 September 1651 where he was captured and imprisoned at the | . He is said to have died there in 1653 and been buried in Westminster. A ... |
Caerlaverock Castle | ... ing English met their end at Cockpool on the Solway Coast. After resting at | a few miles away from the bloodletting, Wallace again passed through Dumfr ... |
Elba | ... OAC Flight 781 and crashed into the Mediterranean off the Italian island of | with the loss of all 35 on board. With no witnesses to the disaster and on ... |
Arsuf | ... Saint Abraham. Gerard of Avesnes was a knight from Hainault held hostage at | , north of Jaffa, who had been wounded by Godfrey's own forces during the ... |
Wiechers-Villaronga | ... eritage, the city has opened the Museum of Puerto Rican Architecture at the | residence |
Gorizia | ... es were required to withdraw from South Tyrol, Tarvisio, the Isonzo valley, | , Trieste, Istria, western Carniola, and Dalmatia. Terms mandated German f ... |
Kernavė | ... court. At least fourteen different locations have been proposed, including | and Vilnius. The ongoing formal archeological digs at Kernavė began in 197 ... |
Indiana Senate | ... ion of the county is in Indiana's 6th congressional district. It is part of | districts 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19; and Indiana House of Representatives dist ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in | in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edw ... |
Claydon House | ... gale's death. Another museum devoted to her is at her sister's family home, | , now a property of the National Trust |
Wemyss Castle | ... his patron, Sir John of Wemyss, whose representative, Mr. Erskine Wemyss of | , Fife, possessed the oldest extant manuscript of the work. The subject of ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... egularly on the balcony of a half-size replica (but with double glazing) of | for the paying visitors to see. Special script-writers have been hired for ... |
Brinkley Court | ... ecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Bertie blithely recounts the arrival of a Mi-go to | and Aunt Dahlia's possession by Cthulhu. The Lovecraftian menaces are driv ... |
Kedleston Hall | ... he public, such as Calke Abbey, Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate, Ilam Park, | , Longshaw Estate near Hathersage, and Sudbury Hall on the Staffordshire b ... |
Tongland Abbey | ... h was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, Dercongal Abbey and | all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in northern Britain |
Vienna | ... nalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria (1640), now in | — by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in ... |
Holywell House | Sarah Jennings was born on 5 June 1660, probably at | , St Albans |
Argos | ... ve set up forms of ostracism on the Athenian model, namely Megara, Miletos, | and Syracuse. In the last of these it was referred to as petalismos, becau ... |
Lismore Castle | ... uding Bolton Abbey, Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and | in Ireland. William Cavendish died in 1764, leaving the property to his so ... |
Hurst Castle | Charles was moved to | at the end of 1648, and there after to Windsor Castle. In January 1649, in ... |
Turda | In 1558 the Transylvanian Diet of | declared free practice of both the Catholic and Lutheran religions, but pr ... |
Trzebnica Abbey | ... Old Polish name of Lubin in a 1267 deed by Pope Clement IV as a fiefdom of | |
Blenheim Palace | ... he Whigs, while also devoting much of her time to building projects such as | . She died in 1744 at the age of eighty-four |
Tower of London | ... being paraded from the Marshalsea Prison across London Bridge and past the | to the dock |
Thorpe Hall | ... complete set of domestic paintings of the period in northern Europe. Nearby | is one of the few mansions built in the Commonwealth period. A maternity h ... |
Shuafat | ... e Arab villages of Tira near Haifa, Yehudiya ('Abassiya) in the center, and | by Jerusalem. The Irgun also attacked in the Wadi Rushmiya neighborhood in ... |
Budapest | ... ated Jewish parents. Her mother, Gertrud (née Lichtwitz), was a pianist and | native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and her father, Lembe ... |
Castle of Mey | ... also that of mainland Britain. The famous John o' Groats, Mey (site of the | ), and many smaller villages are also to be found on the Caithness side as ... |
Museum of Puerto Rican Architecture | ... Perla. To showcase its rich architectural heritage, the city has opened the | at the Wiechers-Villaronga residence |
Riley Lucas Bartholomew House | ... omew built a house on the east shore of Wood Lake in 1852, and the restored | is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the house an ... |
Palace of Westminster | Historically, the | and the Tower of London were the main residences of the English Sovereign ... |
Fearn Abbey | ... ory, Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as | in northern Britain |
Radio City Music Hall | ... A. Ferré Foundation. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, renowned architect of | and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MAP is the only museum of intern ... |
Thorney Abbey | ... nland monastic houses include the so-called Fen Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, | , Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and Peterborough Abbey) as well as Spalding ... |
Whithorn Priory | ... in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at | , Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as F ... |
Westminster | ... olyrood) and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( | ) |
Mycenae | In Greek mythology, Atreus was a king of | , the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menela ... |
Palazzo Rucellai | ... e from these palaces and buildings, there are several others, including the | , designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at ... |
White House | ... n equestrian statue of George Washington to be placed directly south of the | (see L'Enfant Plan). The National Mall occupies the site of this planned " ... |
Augsburg | ... rmy under Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden had taken the free city of | , threatening Bavaria from the west. Louis of Baden had left a force of 16 ... |
White House | ... nwashed by Doctor Faustus open fire on crowds of protesters in front of the | . The Red Skull continues his assault by engineering a riot by placing Kro ... |
Chester Cathedral | ... was also awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Chester in 2009 at | |
Kykuit | ... rkers, including John D. Rockefeller, who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. | , Rockefeller's elaborate mansion, was completed in 1906. In 1914, Kykuit ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ed up and placed in an urn, which Charles II of England ordered interred in | in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel. The rags and velvet were not men ... |
Vienna | Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in | , Austria-Hungary, the only child of assimilated Jewish parents. Her mothe ... |
Hotel Chelsea | ... as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and | , also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the ... |
Theobalds | ... e arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on Burghley House and | (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House). ... |
Arin Berd | ... ements from the Bronze Age include Shengavit, Tsitsernakaberd, Teishebaini, | , Karmir Berd and Berdadzor. Archaeological evidence, such as a cuneiform ... |
Red Fort | ... ral architectural marvels like the Jama Masjid (India's largest mosque) and | . Three World Heritage Sites—the Red Fort, Qutab Minar and Humayun's Tomb— ... |
Meteora | ... December 2002, revealing their new work was inspired by the rocky region of | in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks. ... |
Dercongal Abbey | ... ea of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, | and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in nort ... |
Vienna | ... lsion from Spain, as well as to Italy, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, and to | and Timișoara, continued to the middle of the 18th century |
Abbey of Gembloux | The town grew around the | , founded in the tenth century. In the vicinity of the town, in 1578, the ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... year in France). In Britain, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was created at | , while in France La tombe du soldat inconnu was placed in the Arc de Trio ... |
Carnuntum | ... 11 November 308, Galerius called a general council at the military city of | (Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria) to resolve the instability in the western p ... |
Ramsey Abbey | ... he so-called Fen Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, | and Peterborough Abbey) as well as Spalding Abbey. As major landowners, th ... |
Dinas Emrys | ... f Vortigern concerns his attempt to build a stronghold near Snowdon, called | , only to have his building materials disappear each time he tries. His ad ... |
Osborne House | ... mpire of the Sea" by William Dyce, a painting Victoria commissioned for her | on the Isle of Wight |
Fountains | The English Cistercian houses, of which there are remains at | , Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Tintern and Netley were mainly arranged after the s ... |
Tower of London | Historically, the Palace of Westminster and the | were the main residences of the English Sovereign until Henry VIII acquire ... |
Ilam Park | ... e open to the public, such as Calke Abbey, Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate, | , Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Estate near Hathersage, and Sudbury Hall on the ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... d to the Cavendish family, as did numerous other Boyle residences including | , Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle i ... |
Lincluden Abbey | ... he time a mile upstream and on the opposite bank of the Nith from Dumfries, | was founded circa 1160. The abbey ruins are on the site of the Bailey of t ... |
Castle Cornet | ... are German defences visible all round the coast and additions were made to | and a windmill. Hitler became obsessed with the idea that the Allies would ... |
Anchin Abbey | ... rsity of Paris entered the Order of Saint Benedict. He soon became prior of | , near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable monastery ... |
Bishop's Palace | ... Scapa Flow for the winter, but he died that December whilst staying at the | in Kirkwall. In the 15th century towards the end of Norse rule in Orkney, ... |
Belvoir Castle | ... o became the owner of the first series of the Seven Sacraments (late 1630s, | ); and Paul Fréart de Chantelou, with whom Poussin, at the call of Sublet ... |
Badia Fiorentina | ... well as several others, including Santa Trinita, San Marco, Santa Felicita, | , San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, Florence Charterhouse, and Santa Mari ... |
Oranienbaum | The newlyweds settled in the palace of | , which remained the residence of the "young court" for many years to come |
Pylos | ... ic script, presumably for /Diwo(h)nūsos/, found on two tablets at Mycenaean | and dated to the 12th or 13th century BC |
Westminster Abbey | Manhole covers with Crapper's company's name on them in | are now one of London's minor tourist attractions. Thomas Crapper & Co own ... |
Regensburg | ... dies he became a scholarship student, in 1670, at the Gymnasium Poeticum at | . The school authorities were so impressed by Pachelbel's academic qualifi ... |
Budapest | ... flay as a great talent that should be on the Hungarian side, brought him to | , where Šufflay worked in the National Museum for a small salary |
Kensington Palace | ... that she had called them home herself. Queen Anne died on 1 August 1714 at | ; the Protestant Whig Privy Councillors had insisted on their right to be ... |
Budapest | ... llel as Naples, Madrid, Istanbul, and New York, and on the same meridian as | and Kraków |
Baynard's Castle | ... ohn in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and | (the latter was Fitzwalter's stronghold), however his instructions were no ... |
White House | ... ident Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a | reception on 1 January 1907 |
Westminster Abbey | Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at | , recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to 200 million people around the wor ... |
Thurgau | ... of the cantons, and the former tributary and allied territories of Aargau, | , Grisons, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights |
Kirkham House | ... Paignton is inland: the low-lying coastal fringe was originally salt marsh. | is a late medieval stone house which is open to the public at certain time ... |
Longthorpe Tower | ... For two centuries following the restoration the city was a of this family. | , a fourteenth century three-storey tower and fortified manor house in the ... |
24 Sussex Drive | ... to live in the present official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada: | , from 1951 to the end of his term in office |
Holywell House | ... th Secretariat in 1959. Wimbledon Park House succumbed to fire in 1785; and | , Sarah's birthplace in St Albans, was demolished in 1827. Today, much of ... |
Vienna | ... d respectively by American, British, French and Soviet Army personnel, with | being also divided similarly into four sectors—with an International Zone ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... arah Peake, a former Provincetown selectman. The town is represented in the | as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod ... |
Palace of Versailles | ... court located in the Saint-Louis district of Versailles (commune), near the | |
Castle of Good Hope | ... to the Dutch East Indies, and the Fort de Goede Hoop (later replaced by the | ). The settlement grew slowly during this period, as it was hard to find a ... |
Bolingbroke | ... d. Kenilworth became the primary castle of the Lancaster estates, replacing | , and acted as both a social and a financial centre for Thomas. Thomas bui ... |
Burg Neu-Ems | On a crest near Alt-Ems the | (also "Schloss Glopper") is located, built in 1343. In 1407 both castles w ... |
Chequers | ... usic Industry during these years was in Sydney and Melbourne. Clubs such as | , the Bondi Lifesaver and the Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney, and the Thumpin ... |
Melbourne Hall | ... Lea near Matlock, and the 17th-18th century French style formal gardens at | , Melbourne |
Balmoral Castle | ... rulers, and cannot be sold by the monarch. Sandringham House in Norfolk and | in Aberdeenshire are privately owned by the Queen |
Windsor Castle | ... was not attended by politicians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at | , where Queen Victoria permitted his lying-in-state before his body was re ... |
Argolid | ... er and Persephone in Argos, had dried up all the region's springs after the | was awarded to the protection of Hera. It would appear from the myth that ... |
Tower of London | ... uest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the | . The rest of the episode revolves around Blackadder's attempts to save th ... |
Hearst Castle | Beginning in 1919, Hearst began to build the never-completed | , on a 240,000 acre (97,000 ha) ranch at San Simeon, California, which he ... |
St Augustine's Abbey | ... , and dedicated it to saints Peter and Paul; it was later re-consecrated as | , Canterbury. Laurence also wrote to the bishops in the lands held by the ... |
Kedleston Hall | ... of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse of Netherhall in Cumberland. He was born at | , built on the site where his family, who were of Norman ancestry, had liv ... |
Carlen House | ... g and local landmark on Government Street. The Bishop Portier House and the | are two of the many surviving examples of Creole cottages in the city. The ... |
White House | ... x Park) was used as a model by Irish architect James Hoban who designed the | . However the porticoes were not part of Hoban's original design and were ... |
Palazzo della Signoria | ... ce Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the | , the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 Sep ... |
Beehive House | ... family. This building remains a Salt Lake City landmark, together with the | , another Brigham Young family home. A contemporary of Young wrote: "It wa ... |
Milton Hall | ... y Horse Trials, an annual three day event. Another Grade I listed building, | near Castor, ancestral home of the Barons and later Earls Fitzwilliam, als ... |
Clarence House | ... fter their marriage, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh took up residence at | . Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and Princess ... |
Tower of London | In 1674, some workmen remodelling the | were assumed to have dug up a wooden box containing two small human skelet ... |
Leinster House | ... rebuilt the city centre and located the new parliament, the Oireachtas, in | . Since the beginning of Anglo-Norman rule in the 12th century, the city h ... |
Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park | ... idwell Park, the ninth-largest municipally-owned park in the United States, | , the Chico University Arboretum |
Villa Farnese | There are examples of such casinos at Villa Giulia and | . In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello (also called "cas ... |
Norwich Cathedral | ... orical architecture. The medieval period is represented by the 11th century | , 12th century castle (now a museum) and a large number of parish churches ... |
Oriental Theater | ... e circuit as "The Gumm Sisters" for many years, performed in Chicago at the | with George Jessel. He encouraged the group to choose a more appealing nam ... |
Burghley House | ... land. The Royalist forces were defeated within a few weeks and retreated to | , where they were captured and sent to Cambridge. While the Parliamentary ... |
Regensburg | ... ry. Frederick agreed at first, but after Albert took over yet another fief, | , Frederick withdrew his consent. On January 2, 1487, however, before Fred ... |
Jenin | ... alestinian cities and towns that were evacuated by Israeli forces including | , Ramallah, al-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, declaring them "liber ... |
Orontid Dynasty | ... amed after the Armenian king, Yervand IV (the Last), the last leader of the | , and founder of the city of Yervandashat. However, it is likely that the ... |
Clarence House | Other residences include | and Kensington Palace. The palaces belong to the Crown; they are held in t ... |
Vienna | ... ettled in Austria and was a state theatre director in Klagenfurt, Graz, and | , which were important positions in imperial Austria. Ludwig's father Gust ... |
Erebuni | ... evan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of | in 782 BC by king Argishti I at the western extreme of the Ararat plain. A ... |
Punakha Dzong | ... h-century dzong, in the spring, summer, and fall. The winter capital was at | , a dzong established northeast of Thimphu in 1527. The kingdom was divide ... |
Argos | ... Pausanias passed the shrine to Demeter at Mysia on the road from Mycenae to | but all he could draw out to explain the archaic name was a myth of an epo ... |
Fetteresso | ... led in 954. Other sources place this most probably in the Mearns, either at | following the Chronicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán ... |
Ponce Casino | ... s and various other buildings, including the Mercantile Union Building, the | , and some of Ponce's homes were illuminated with the incandescent light b ... |
Mycenae | ... n Arcadia. Pausanias passed the shrine to Demeter at Mysia on the road from | to Argos but all he could draw out to explain the archaic name was a myth ... |
Kensington Palace | Other residences include Clarence House and | . The palaces belong to the Crown; they are held in trust for future ruler ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... hoir. The original inspiration for this octagon may have been the Corona of | , although octagonal shrines have a long history in Christian architecture ... |
Strata Florida Abbey | ... y Rhys ap Gruffydd in or about 1185, is in the care of Cadw. In common with | , it was once claimed to be the site of the grave of the medieval Welsh po ... |
Windsor Castle | ... irst of two phantom pregnancies. Mary had initially wanted to give birth at | as it was a more secure location, and she was still fearfull of rebellion. ... |
Camp Dick Robinson | ... d in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The controversial American Civil War training base, | , was located near Lancaster. Additionally, Lancaster is home to the Garra ... |
Regensburg | ... 7 – August 8, 1719) was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at | (Ratisbon) |
White House | ... vocated $50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 (not enacted); chaired | conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership; ... |
Regensburg | ... of the Palatinate succession. Besides Vienna (residence of the Emperor) and | (seat of the Imperial Diet) Wetzlar thus gained a central function within ... |
Indiana Senate | Hamilton County is part of Indiana's 5th congressional district | ;districts 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30; and Indiana House of Representatives dis ... |
Barad-dûr | ... ochel, one in Anduin, and one buried amongst the ruins of the Dark Tower of | ; a fifth had been rendered virtually unusable (the palantír of Minas Tiri ... |
Caerlaverock Castle | ... ead of the then greatest invasion force to attack Scotland he laid siege to | . After Caerlaverock eventually succumbed, Edward passed through Dumfries ... |
Sandringham House | ... hey are held in trust for future rulers, and cannot be sold by the monarch. | in Norfolk and Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire are privately owned by the ... |
Nargothrond | ... onto western Dorthonion. Finrod Felagund led an army of reinforcements from | , but was ambushed by Morgoth's forces at the Fens of Serech and cut off f ... |
Teishebaini | ... Urartian city of Erebuni (Arin Berd), the historical site of Karmir Blur ( | ), etc. The Armenia Marriott Hotel is situated in the heart of the city at ... |
Viennese | Loewe was born in Berlin, Germany, to | parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father was a noted Jewish operetta star ... |
10 Downing Street | ... months as prime minister he chose not to live in the official residence at | , finding it too small. He moved in only because his own home, Apsley Hous ... |