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5 giorni fa · Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related ...
3 giorni fa · Of this street the author of "A New Critical Review of the Public Buildings of London" remarks that there is an inconsistency and a departure from the true rule of taste in making it wider at the upper than at the lower end, as quite reversing the perspective; and yet he says that the view down George Street from the top of the square, with St. George's Church in the front, is fine, and indeed ...
4 giorni fa · BARBON. The manor of Barbon was held towards the end of the 12th century by Richard de Berebrun. His granddaughter carried the manor in marriage to a younger member of the house of Lascels of EscrickYorks., and upon the death in 1252 or 1253 of Roger son of Picot de Lasceles the Eskrick inheritance passed to the same line and descend, ed, as shown in the annexed pedigree, with Barbon, until ...
3 giorni fa · A small estate in Escrick belonged to Thicket priory, which was granted 100 a. by Roger de Lascelles in 1291. Its land was worth £1 16s. in 1535. After the Dissolution the estate eventually passed to George Potts, who in 1666 granted it, described as a grange called Nun Pallions, to Henry Thompson.
2 giorni fa · But George Gordon, the 6th Baron Byron, "must also have been, ... William Blake – attended his weekly salons. A biography of Johnson has long been overdue – and this one is "meticulous".
2 giorni fa · Price: £25.00. A detailed biography of George II in English has been needed for some time. His is one of the longer reigns of an early modern British monarch (1727–60), encompassing both the final military defeat of the Stuart cause in 1745, and the high point of the first British Empire.
4 giorni fa · George Armstrong Custer (born December 5, 1839, New Rumley, Ohio, U.S.—died June 25, 1876, Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory) was a U.S. cavalry officer who distinguished himself in the American Civil War (1861–65) but later led his men to death in one of the most controversial battles in U.S. history, the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
