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 | |
Ravenna | Benedict's successor, Clement XII (elected 1730), named him legate of | , where he erected the Porta Alberoni (1739), a magnificent gateway that f ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Presidential Palace | The | was badly damaged, the second floor collapsing onto the first floor; the H ... |
Palazzo Vecchio | ... edieval churches with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: | , Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Ravenna | ... ona surrendered soon afterwards, followed by Aquileia, Mutina (Modena), and | . The road to Rome was now wide open to Constantine |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tiryns | Mycenae and | are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilizatio ... |
Cecilienhof | ... hrough tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss | in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Palazzo Pitti | ... with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, | , Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Casina Pio IV | ... ent is the microbiologist Werner Arber. The Academy is headquartered in the | at the heart of the |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arundel House | ... rity on political-military conflict". Since 1997 its headquarters have been | , in London |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Tutbury Castle | ... , Henry's court divided almost all its time among Kenilworth, Leicester and | for the purposes of protection. Kenilworth remained an important Lancastri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pavia | ... lbi (1812–1884), followed a similar career, being professor of geography at | , and publishing his father's Scritti Geografici (Turin, 1841), and origin ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tushpa | Under the ancient name of | , Van was the capital of the Urartian kingdom in the 9th century BC. The e ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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), ... |
Plassenburg | # Johann, Viceroy of Valencia (9 January 1493, | –5 July 1525, Valencia) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Balmoral Castle | ... in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at Holyrood Palace and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eketorp | ... t 20 hillforts on Öland. The most notable in southern Öland is the fortress | |
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 |
Torthorwald | ... stav Fleischer. Within a few miles of Dumfries are the villages of Tinwald, | and Mouswald all of which were settled by vikings |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Holyrood Palace | ... ngham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at | and Balmoral Castle |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Blandings Castle | ... , another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lielvārde | Krāslava, Daugavpils, Līvāni, Jēkabpils, Pļaviņas, Aizkraukle, Jaunjelgava, | , Kegums, Ogre, Ikšķile, Salaspils and Riga |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nether Horsburgh Castle | ... yck, Easter Happrew, Lyne, Barnes, Caverhill, Neidpath, Peebles, Horsburgh, | , Cardrona |
Inverness Castle | ... nder Ross the Pitcalnie chief raised a Ross Independent Company to garrison | against the Jacobites |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peterhof | ... projects of her favourite architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in | and Tsarskoye Selo. The Winter Palace and the Smolny Cathedral in Saint Pe ... |
Arezzo | Leonardo Bruni was born in | , Tuscany circa 1370. Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leade ... |
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 ... |
Sondershausen | ... d a position as organist of the St. Trinitatis church (Trinitatiskirche) in | . Pachelbel initially accepted the invitation but, as a surviving autograp ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Mycenae | For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, | , Tiryns, Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representative ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bamburgh | ... nted news getting through to the starving garrisons. As a result the nearby | and Dunstanburgh castles soon agreed terms and surrendered. But Hungerford ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lambeth Palace | The Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence in London is | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Piombino | ... ke of Romagna. Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of | to his new lands |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Palais des Papes | Older than the | in Avignon, the Palais de la Berbie, formerly the Bishops' Palace of Albi, ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mycenae | ... r. Because of the murder, Hippodamia, Atreus, and Thyestes were banished to | , where Hippodamia is said to have hanged herself |
Uffizi | A youthful portrait by Andrea del Sarto ca 1517 is conserved at the | |
Dublin Castle | ... les and inspectors general under the control of the civil administration at | . By 1841 this force numbered over 8,600 men |
Argos | ... translated as "nonparticipant" or "uncooperative", was a legendary king of | during the war of the Seven Against Thebes |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mirandola | Giovanni was born at | , near Modena, the youngest son of Francesco I, Lord of Mirandola and Coun ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Palais Holnstein | ... al Gallery and the Ornate Rooms. He also ordered Cuvilliés to construct the | for one of his mistress, the Countess Holnstein |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Tiryns | For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, Mycenae, | , Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representative site exp ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Pavlovsk Palace | ... the Rockefeller Foundation. Concurrently, in Russia, the restoration of the | located outside of Leningrad – today's Saint Petersburg – brought the atte ... |
Etton | Ailsworth – Bainton – Barnack – Borough Fen – Castor – Deeping Gate – | – Eye – Eye Green – Glinton – Helpston – Marholm – Maxey – Newborough – No ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Croton | ... he was joined by the Lucanians, he devastated the territories of Thurii and | in an attempt to defend Locri |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sanquhar Castle | ... castles that have been held by the Clan Ross include Portencross Castle and | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
Fossombrone | He was born in | (Pesaro), and probably was educated at Urbino. Around 1490 he went to Veni ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gournia | ... sarlik, Mycenae, Phaestus, Hagia Triada, Tiryns, Phylakope, Palaikastro and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dublin Castle | ... ntelligence in Ireland, causing many other agents and informers to flee for | , and caused consternation in the British administration |
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 ... |
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 ... |
The Crystal Palace | ... the home of William Pitt the Younger), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site of | |
Domus Aurea | ... forms in their buildings, such as the underground octagonal hall in Nero's | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
St. Donat's Castle | After seeing photographs of | in Country Life magazine, the Welsh Vale of Glamorgan property was bought ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Paramount Theatre | ... iliated with that denomination. Highlights of the city include the historic | and the Gruenewald Historic House |
Argos | For some centuries, Sicyon remained subject to | , whence its Dorian conquerors had come; as late as 500 BC, it acknowledge ... |
Lambeth Palace | The archbishop's main residence is | in the London Borough of Lambeth. He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, ... |
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 ... |
Old Summer Palace | ... is a park named after him and bust of Hugo stands near the entrance of the | in Beijing |
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 ... |
Carisbrooke Castle | ... 11 November. Hammond, however, was opposed to Charles, whom he confined in | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Uffizi | ... From April to October, tourists outnumber local population. Tickets to the | and Accademia museums are regularly sold out and large groups regularly fi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stamford, Lincolnshire | ... shire in 1521, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate (near | ), and his wife, Jane Heckington |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
White House | At the | Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill cre ... |
Elba | Image:Pyrite-elba_hg.jpg|Crystal cluster from | , Ital |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... nner attended by Queen Elizabeth II on May 7, 2007, in the East Room at the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Wyntoon | ... on the McCloud River in Siskiyou County, in far northern California, called | . Wyntoon was designed by famed architect Julia Morgan, who also designed ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... or the meetings. Mahogany furniture patterned after the Cabinet Room of the | was ordered from Washington, D.C |
Kerak | In 1167 the episcopal see of Hebron was created along with that of | and Sebastia (the tomb of John the Baptist) |
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 ( ... |
Kremlin | ... rightly-domed Saint Basil's Cathedral and the palaces and cathedrals of the | |
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 ... |
Achilleion | ... t to platonic romanticism. The palace, naturally, was named after Achilles: | (Αχίλλειον). This elegant structure abounds with paintings and statues of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alnwick Castle | ... or the series was considerable, with much location shooting particularly at | in Northumberland and the surrounding countryside in February 1983. The se ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... igon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns,1970s | photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Akershus Fortress | ... s wife Märtha are buried in the green sarcophagus in the Royal Mausoleum at | |
Vyborg | Baltiysk, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, | , Vysotsk |
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 | ... 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... on in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control of the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Grosnez Castle | ... ndes Racecourse can be found at Les Landes in St. Ouen next to the ruins of | |
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 ... |
Lumley | ... re several castles in northern England similarly decorated, such as Bothal, | , and Raby |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... ed his seat to focus on the campaign, saying he was either heading for "The | or home" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fort Duckburg | ... the fort, on Kill Mole Hill where Scrooge built his Money Bin in 1902. (See | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Minas Morgul | After Minas Ithil had fallen and been renamed | , the Pelennor Fields were surrounded by the great wall of Rammas Echor, t ... |
Zwinger Palace | ... as the Frauenkirche, the Semperoper (the Saxony state opera house) and the | (the latter two were rebuilt before reunification) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Locarno | ... icularly in the field of neurophysiology. He died in 1997 in Tenero-Contra, | , |
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 ... |
Pesaro | ... nni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from | ; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astor ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Windsor Castle | ... 1220s and 1230s, becoming comparable with other palatial residences such as | . Construction of Wakefield and Lanthorn Towers – located at the corners o ... |
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 ... |
Fort Duckburg | ... tablishment that in 1818 was taken over by Cornelius Coot and later renamed | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Pilėnai | In 1336, the defenders of | in Lithuania set their castle on fire and committed mass suicide in order ... |
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 ... |
Knaresborough Castle | Becket's assassins fled north to | , which was held by Hugh de Morville, where they remained for about a year ... |
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 |
Winter Palace | ... ittle opposition before finally launching an assault on the poorly defended | |
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 |
Raby | ... astles in northern England similarly decorated, such as Bothal, Lumley, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oystermouth Castle | ... e are six castles on the Gower Peninsula: (also known as Landimore Castle), | , Oxwich Castle, Pennard Castle, Penrice Castle and |
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 |
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 ... |
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). ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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' ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bodiam Castle | In 1917, Curzon bought | in East Sussex, a 14th century building that had been gutted during the En ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Alexandra Palace | ... en, East Finchley, Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane and to train services at | and Hornsey |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Palace of Westminster | Historically, the | and the Tower of London were the main residences of the English Sovereign ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Westminster | ... olyrood) and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( | ) |
Ravenna | ... te depose Avitus and ordered the murder of the magister militum Remistus at | , in the in Classis Palace, on 17 September 456 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 " ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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— ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Tower of London | Historically, the Palace of Westminster and the | were the main residences of the English Sovereign until Henry VIII acquire ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Buckingham Palace | ... lt when Goring House burned down, on the site of which was eventually built | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
White House | ... ident Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a | reception on 1 January 1907 |
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 ... |
Quirinal Palace | Gregory XV died in the | on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant'Ignazio. He was succe ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Balmoral Castle | ... rulers, and cannot be sold by the monarch. Sandringham House in Norfolk and | in Aberdeenshire are privately owned by the Queen |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tower of London | In 1674, some workmen remodelling the | were assumed to have dug up a wooden box containing two small human skelet ... |
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 ... |
Margam Castle | ... 13th century, stand within 840 acre (3.4 km²) Margam Country Park, close to | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arundel Castle | ... s; Worksop Manor, Carlton Towers, Norfolk House in London, and most notably | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Kensington Palace | Other residences include Clarence House and | . The palaces belong to the Crown; they are held in trust for future ruler ... |
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. ... |
White House | ... vocated $50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 (not enacted); chaired | conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership; ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Caerlaverock Castle | ... ead of the then greatest invasion force to attack Scotland he laid siege to | . After Caerlaverock eventually succumbed, Edward passed through Dumfries ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |