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...Its housing, predominantly a mixture of three- to six-storey blocks of flats aping “the New Humanist” precedents of Scandinavia, were designed by Frederick Gibberd, chief architect of Harlow New Town in...
...of Miss Britain III, Hubert Scott-Paine’s gleaming speedboat....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Toward the end of his book, Renton quotes Professor Frederick Hickling, the distinguished Jamaican psychiatrist, who died last year....
...The same contradiction was perhaps most famously restated by Frederick Douglass: “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”...
...The original Stadtschloss, begun in the 15th century and hugely expanded by Frederick III (later King Frederick I of Prussia) and architect and sculptor Andreas Schlüter from 1699, was left in ruins after...
...Stolid George III is an under-recognised patron....
...The family’s link with the Holy Roman Empire began in the 13th century, and by the mid-15th century the Emperor Frederick III felt powerful enough to embark on the imperial mythmaking that would successfully...
...It is not the original, which was commissioned by Frederick III of Prussia in 1696, given to Peter the Great, packed up in increasingly nightmarish flat-pack jigsaws and moved from palace to palace until...
...A 25ft tulip tree that Frederick bought in 1734 for £38,120 (£21), was no doubt part of the stupendous bill....
...by Frederick the Great....
...Only through guile and the protection of powerful patrons such as Frederick III, elector of Saxony, did he survive. In creating “a priesthood of all believers”, he had become a heretical rebel....
...The greatest ruler of them all had not a drop of Russian blood. Catherine the Great, born Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst, came to power after having her semi-insane husband Peter III murdered in a coup....
...We’ve got a balance we’re pleased with.” The need for that balance dates back to the time of Richard, first Earl of Cornwall, the fabulously rich younger brother of King Henry III....
...It was in 1813 at the King’s Head that the idea for a horological library was suggested, and Benjamin Vulliamy, clockmaker to King George III, took it up with alacrity....
...In a famous address in the city in March 1813, Frederick William III of Prussia urged his “Volk” to throw off the hated French occupation....
...From Mr Harold McGraw III and 80 others. Sir, We represent more than 80 international businesses....
...Plimpton ● A Fan’s Notes (1968) by Frederick Exley ● Only A Game?...
...On a hot June night in the absurdly beautiful grounds of Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci palace, the question seems valid enough....
...We now know their last king, Richard III, ended up under a Leicester car park; the man some argue is his closest living heir, meanwhile, is living in a provincial Australian town....
...The great arc of Habsburg success begins with Rudolf I of Germany, King of the Romans in the 13th century, then goes imperial with Frederick III, who graduated to Holy Roman Emperor in 1452....
...Griff – to his family; more formally, Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751) – was the eldest son of George II and father of George III; he should have been king but for being fatally caught out by a cricket...
...These included a brother of George III, a director of the Bank of England, the Scottish painter-antiquary Allan Ramsay, and a Catholic priest remitting a secret hoard of holy relics for use in the chapel...
...It was an echo of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 19th-century “emerald necklace” of parks through Boston, although Lurie Garden includes the “shoulder hedge” representing the “City of Big Shoulders” – a reminder...
...Frederick’s promotion to the throne of Bohemia in 1619 triggered a bloodthirsty round of wars and an incoming Catholic army tossed the “Winter Queen” and her husband into a life of perpetual wandering....
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