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Hace 4 días · Cock-fighting, and the still more barbarous sport of throwing at cocks, it may interest some of our readers to learn, was, in the days of our forefathers, the chief amusement on Shrove Tuesday. Hence Sir Charles Sedley, in his epigram on a cock at Rochester, prays:— "May'st thou be punished for St. Peter's crime,
Hace 3 días · The king briefly threatened the crown prince with execution, then considered forcing Frederick to renounce the succession in favour of his brother, Augustus William, although either option would have been difficult to justify to the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hace 3 días · In 1825, Albert's great-uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, died, which led to a realignment of the Saxon duchies the following year; and Albert's father became the first reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Hace 6 días · Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall.
Hace 5 días · The contractor (Sir) John Kelk, who was briefly in partnership with Elger in the mid-1840s, took the large plot to the east of Kingston House, where he built Nos 1–11 Princes Gate and laid out the communal garden at the back.
Hace 4 días · Part was let as the site of a brewery (see page 80) and Samuel Worrall built houses on the extreme southwestern corner of the estate in the 1730's, but the most interesting feature of the estate was the chapel built by the Rev. Sir George Wheler in 1693 (see below).
Hace 5 días · Portrait of Sir Augustus Hemming, British politician and Governor of Jamaica 1898-1904. He is wearing a monacle glasses and is dressed in a suit.
