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Hace 4 días · Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
Hace 2 días · Epstein, 1921, photo by George Charles Beresford. This is a list of public sculptures by Jacob Epstein.This list only includes works held in public collections, such as museums and art galleries, in public spaces or in buildings and venues open to the public.
Hace 3 días · The Nine Years' War, [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
Hace 3 días · The Fen Ditton estate descended jointly to Sir William Willys's six sisters, from whom it was bought by Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough, for her daughter Henrietta Godolphin, the next duchess (d. 1733). After Henrietta's death it was used as a marriage gift for her daughter Mary, who married in 1740 Thomas Osborne, duke of Leeds.
Hace 3 días · Many anecdotes of the Duchess of Marlborough are to be gleaned from books of cotemporary memoirs; none, however, show her character more forcibly than the following:—After the death of her husband, the great Duke of Marlborough, her hand was solicited—partly, no doubt, on account of her wealth—by Charles Seymour, the "Proud" Duke of Somerset, whose first wife had been the heiress of the ...
Hace 5 días · John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough: 1650–1722 1702 Later Duke of Marlborough 513 Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg: 1641–1719 1703 Former Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 514 Sidney Godolphin, 1st Baron Godolphin: 1645–1712 1704 Later Earl of Godolphin 515 Prince George Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg: 1683–1760 1706
Hace 3 días · When the manor of Theobalds was surveyed by order of parliament, in 1650, the manerial profits were valued at 12l. 2s. 4d. the rent of the lands was 275l. 7s. per annum; the improvements were estimated at 152l. 14s. 7d. per annum (fn. 10). Old site of the manor. Building of Theobalds house.
