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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...
...It’s on show, along with other large exhibits such as Prince Frederick’s gorgeous 1732 royal barge and an engine from the 1907 paddle tug Reliant in the striking enclosed courtyard around which the museum...
...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...
...Meanwhile, in the 1730s Frederick Prince of Wales spent £10.4m (£5,781) on his garden over three years....
...range from a loose, bold study of drapery by Sir Peter Lely to a highly finished gouache on vellum, a meticulous reduced version of Poussin’s “Hercules Between Virtue and Pleasure”, made by Bernard Lens III...
...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 Russian Peter was so obsessed with Prussia and Frederick the Great that he dressed his household in their uniforms....
...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....
...Monumental biblical and mythological compositions by Murillo, Luca Giordano, Charles Le Brun dominate the saloon....
...King Gustav III warmed to the classical story enough to sketch an opera around it....
...This happened first in Denmark in 1953, when the public voted to allow the son-less King Frederick IX to pass on the throne to his eldest daughter Margrethe, who became Denmark’s current chain-smoking, intellectual...
...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...
...One young man, Frederick Ponsonby, snapped up plans of the Pantheon and of three ruined temples: was he thinking of building a folly on the estate?...
...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...
...The Plantagenet decorator-king Henry III brought in Sicilian craftsmen to make the ostensibly ur-English shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey....
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