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Hace 1 día · When the great and good of Victorian Britain, headed by the prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, formed a committee, ... 139 Piccadilly, where Byron lived with his wife Annabella Milbanke, ...
Hace 3 días · Early life: 1830–1852. Lord Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield House, the third son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and Frances Mary, née Gascoyne. He was a patrilineal descendant of Lord Burghley and the 1st Earl of Salisbury, chief ministers of Elizabeth I. The family owned vast rural estates in Hertfordshire and Dorset.
Hace 2 días · "My wife is a very clever woman," Benjamin said, "but she can never remember who came first, the Greeks or the Romans." An unusual story of Victorian romance and politics, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli moves beyond the anecdotes to reveal the interior life of one of Britain's most influential couples.
Hace 20 horas · Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
Hace 5 días · William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS ( / ˈɡlædstən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ...
Hace 5 días · Harry [1] Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood ...
Hace 1 día · (The Coen brothers, like musician Bob Dylan and UK Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, are themselves Jewish.) A slogan on the signage says “Strength, Security, Peace of Mind,” the last of which Goodman’s murderous character in Barton Fink (Charlie Meadows, the namesake, appropriately, of a cowboy showman) claims he sells.
