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Hace 5 días · samuel pepys. There are, and have been for many centuries, corn and other mills situated on the Ravensbourne in its picturesque windings through Deptford and Brockley, and so on to its source. To one of these John Evelyn refers in his "Dairy," where, under date of April 28, 1668, he writes: "To London, about the purchase of the Ravensbourne Mills and land round it ( sic ) in Upper Deptford."
Hace 5 días · Died. 23 March 1680 (1680-03-23) (aged 65) Pignerol. Nationality. French. Known for. Superintendent of Finances in France. Signature. Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux ( French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under ...
Hace 4 días · The Hague is the seat of the Cabinet, the States General, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State of the Netherlands. [8] King Willem-Alexander lives in the Huis ten Bosch and works at the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague, together with Queen Máxima. [9] Most foreign embassies in the Netherlands are in the city.
Hace 4 días · The vessel in the left foreground is a hoy. A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight. Precisely what it was like and what its use, changed with time. From an English point of view, it was particularly one working in the Thames Estuary and southern North Sea in the manner of the Thames sailing barge of the ...
Hace 5 días · John Felton ( c. 1595 – 29 November 1628) was a lieutenant in the English Army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, to death in the Greyhound Pub in Portsmouth on 23 August 1628. King Charles I trusted Buckingham, who made himself rich in the process but proved a failure at foreign and military policy.
13 de jun. de 2024 · Anne Dacre. Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG, (7 July 1585 – 4 October 1646) was an English peer, diplomat and courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician. When he died he possessed 700 paintings, along with large collections of ...
Hace 4 días · Peter John Sallis OBE (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
