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Leicester House se convirtió en la casa de un museo nacional de curiosidades llamado el Holophusikon y fue demolida en 1971-1972. En el siglo XIX , Leicester Square ya era conocida como una avenida de entretenimiento, con varias diversiones peculiares como el Globo de Wyld, el cual fue construido para la gran exhibición y fue sede de un mapa a escala gigante de la Tierra.
Name. The name of Leicester comes from Old English. It is first recorded in Latinised form in the early ninth century as Legorensis civitatis and in Old English itself in an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 924 as Ligera ceastre (and, in various spellings, frequently thereafter). In the Domesday Book of 1086, it is recorded as Ledecestre.
Essex House era una casa que encabezaba el Strand de Londres. Originalmente llamada Leicester House , fue construida alrededor de 1575 por Robert Dudley, I Conde de Leicester , y fue rebautizada con el nombre de Essex House después de ser heredado por su hijastro, Robert Devereux, II conde de Essex , después de la muerte de Leicester en 1588.
88001043 [1] Added to NRHP. July 28, 1988. The Leicester Meeting House is a historic church building at the junction of United States Route 7 and the Leicester-Whiting Road in the center of Leicester, Vermont. Built in 1829, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period church architecture executed in brick.
Bradgate House is a 16th-century ruin in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England. Edward Grey's son Sir John Grey of Groby married Elizabeth Woodville, who, after John's death married King Edward IV. Their son Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset made preparations for building the first Bradgate House in the late 15th century but died before work ...
Winstanley House in Leicestershire previously called Braunstone Hall, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. [1] It was built in 1775 by Clement Winstanley and remained in this family for the next 150 years. It was then bought in 1925 by the Leicester City Council.
Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the ...
