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Hace 5 días · M543789. Hi-res: 3,214 x 4,978 pixels. Lo-res: 803 x 1,245 pixels. 209. Download stock image of “Lord Rosebery's town house, 38 Berkeley Square, London. Illustration from The Sphere, 10 March 1900.” from the Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Hace 4 días · ‘Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography’, an exhibition of royal portraits running until October, depicts King Charles as a boy, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret (shown ...
Hace 4 días · Chetingdon (xiv cent.). The parish of Cheddington contains 1,425 acres, of which 280 acres are arable land, 800 acres permanent grass, and 21 acres woods and plantations. The soil is of Oxford Clay and the subsoil of gault. West End and South End Hills, in the south-west of the parish, are, however, composed of chalk, which has been worked in a ...
Hace 2 días · Epsom Derby. The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey on the first Saturday of June each year, over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards (2,423 metres), or about 1½ miles. [1] It was ...
Hace 2 días · With the death of the 4th Earl in 1931, the estate passed not to his eldest son, the socialist 5th Earl, but on trust to a younger son, John Hare, later Viscount Blakenham. (fn. 8) In 1935 an agreement was made with property developers for the sale of Kingston House, together with the neighbouring houses to the east and south built in the 1870s and '80s.
Hace 2 días · At ten, for certain, sir, in Bloomsbury-square." Here, in the early part of the last century, lived Dr. Akenside and Sir Hans Sloane, already mentioned as the founder of the British Museum. The house of the latter was on the south side of the square, and here Dr. Franklin came to see Sloane's "curiosities," "for which," says Franklin, "he paid ...
Hace 18 horas · Medal of Mehmet II, with mention "Emperor of Byzantium" ("Byzantii Imperatoris 1481"), made by Costanzo da Ferrara (1450-1524). Mehmed the Conqueror consolidated power by building his imperial court, the divan, with officials who would be solely loyal to him and allow him greater autonomy and authority.
