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6 giorni fa · Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...
3 giorni fa · A formidable character who became the matriarch of the Royal Family, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26 May 1867 in the same room where Queen Victoria (who was a distant cousin) had been born 40 years prior. In 1891, aged 24, Mary was betrothed to her second cousin once removed, Prince Albert, eldest son of the ...
2 giorni fa · Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: 1855–1944 1937 Former Lord Lieutenant of Angus 887 Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort: 1900–1984 1937 Master of the Horse 888 Stanley Baldwin: 1867–1947 1937 Later Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Prime Minister 1923–1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937 889 George II, King of the ...
4 giorni fa · The couple had ten amazing children together. When her husband Claude inherited the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904, she automatically became known as Cecilia Bowes, Lyon Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. They had two grand houses: Glamis castle and St Paul’s Walden Bury.
4 giorni fa · Glamis Castle is one of the most impressive, romantic and reputedly haunted castles in Scotland, home to the Bowes Lyon Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne for hundreds of years and with a splendid interior, and set in beautiful gardens and grounds near Forfar in Angus.
1 giorno fa · William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
4 giorni fa · The First Article. The Charge, Article 1. That the said Earl of Strafford the 21st day of March, in the Eighth year of His Majesties Reign, was President of the Kings Council in the Northern parts of England.
