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Hace 3 días · George Washington (February 22, 1732 ... He arranged to make this request to Sir Guy ... a 1940 portrait by Howard Chandler Christy depicting Washington as ...
Hace 5 días · 1991 New Year Honours. The New Year Honours 1991 were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. They were published on 28 December 1990 for the United Kingdom, [1] New Zealand and the Cook Islands, [2] Mauritius, [3] the Bahamas, [4 ...
Hace 3 días · Lady Oxford, who visited Castle Howard in 1745, describes how 'the front of the park (which is 6 miles round) has a fine stone wall with battlements and towers, and you enter it under a pyramidical stone arch which leads to the grand avenue, in which is an obelisk with an inscription to the Duke of Marlborough.' Horace Walpole wrote to George Selwyn in 1772 that
Hace 3 días · The captains to command them, and the rest of their forces, were the duke of Norfolk, earl of Ormond, sir George Howard, and divers others. But many of the guards, and of the white-coats, deserted (fn. 8) ] them, and captaynes cam hom a-gayn.
Hace 4 días · Robert Howard, Knt. their eldest son, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, whose son John was the first Duke of this family; Sir John did not die in 1400, as Mr. Weaver hath it, (fol. 772,) for the Escheat Roll in 1432 tells us, that Sir John Howard, Knt. then held Fersfield of John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, of his manor of Forncet, at two fees and an half; and in 1435 ...
Hace 3 días · A cottage at Pickwell, which had been given as the endowment of a light in the church, was seised under the Chantry Act and in 1559 was granted to Sir George Howard. The rectory was vacant by deprivation in 1554 and in the 1640's the rector, John Cave, was after much ill-treatment expelled from the benefice.
Hace 5 días · George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu -aligned spirituality in the Beatles ...
