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Hace 4 días · Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968. Learn more about his life and career in this article.
Hace 3 días · This Earl of Holland was a younger son of Robert Rich, first Earl of Warwick, by his marriage with Penelope, daughter of Queen Elizabeth's favourite, the Earl of Essex, and the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney. He was a favourite with King James's "Steenie," Duke of Buckingham, whom he almost rivalled in coxcombry.
Hace 4 días · Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, PA on March 12, 1826. He was the son of Crozier Lowry, who had emigrated from Northern Ireland in the early part of the 19th century. In 1843, when he was 17, Robert underwent an experience of religious conversion. As a result he left the Associate Presbyterian Church of North America, his parents' church ...
Hace 5 días · In the days of the Regency Berkeley Square probably vied with Grosvenor Square in being the most fashionable spot in the West-end, and the neighbourhood of both was constantly spoken of in the last century as the very type of London wealth, taste, hospitality, and luxury. Hence the sarcastic remark of Cawthorne—.
Hace 5 días · No. 71 Pall Mall: Sir Edward Walpole's house. Occupied part of the site of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club. In December 1726 Thomas Ripley, Comptroller of the King's Works, petitioned the Crown for a lease of a plot on the south side of Pall Mall on which stood three small houses, one fronting the street and the other two at the back.
Hace 5 días · Clue & Answer Definitions. WALPOLE (noun) English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797) Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745) BRITAIN (noun) a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and ...
