19 résultats pour "castle"
- Castle (Barbara)
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Connecticut Yankee - anthology.
This missionary knight's name was La Cote Male Taile, and he said that this castle was the abode of Morgan le Fay, sister of King Arthur, and wife of King Uriens,monarch of a realm about as big as the District of Columbia—you could stand in the middle of it and throw bricks into the next kingdom. “Kings” and “Kingdoms”were as thick in Britain as they had been in little Palestine in Joshua's time, when people had to sleep with their knees pulled up because they couldn't stretch outwithout a passp...
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Mexico City - geography.
The park houses some of Mexico's most important public buildings, including Chapultepec Castle. Construction of the castle began in 1783. Positioned on the park’shighest elevation, the castle functioned as a fortress during colonial times. It once served as the presidential residence and now houses the National Museum of History,which includes murals by 20th-century Mexican painter Juan O'Gorman. Los Pinos, the official residence and working offices of the president, is also on the grounds, buti...
- Boyle (sir Robert ), 1627-1691, né à Lismore Castle, physicien et chimiste irlandais.
- Bird (Robert Montgomery) Romancier et dramaturge américain (New Castle, Delaware, 1806 - Philadelphie, 1854), auteur d'oeuvres d'inspiration historique.
- Pole Reginald, 1500-1558, né à Stourton Castle (Staffordshire), prélat anglais, un des artisans de la réforme de l'Église catholique.
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NORHAM CASTLE À L'AUBE de TURNER
NORHAM CASTLE À L'AUBE Vers 1845 Peintre anglais Analyse ...., Le château ici représenté est celui de Nor ham, sur la Tweed, fleuve qui marque la frontière entre l'Angleterre et l'Écosse; un lieu que Tur ner aimait particulièrement comme en témoi gnent les nombreuses œuvres, croquis, aquarelles et toiles qui le représentent sous divers points de vue. L'œuvre ici présentée résume le parcours de l'artiste; c'est l'une des vers...
- Herbert George, 1593-1633, né à Montgomery Castle (pays de Galles), frère de lord Herbert de Cherbury, prêtre anglican et poète anglais.
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Mumbai - geography.
number of people employed by them increased from 7,000 in the 1860s to 73,000 in 1900. Mumbai also prospered as an international port with the 1869 opening ofthe Suez Canal, which shortened the shipping route to Europe. Today most of India’s cotton continues to be grown in the Mumbai hinterland on a fertile, lava-based soilknown as black cotton soil. Textiles remain the dominant industry, employing more than half the workforce. Other important products of Mumbai include refined oil,petrochemical...
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Ellis Island, porte de l'espoir ou des larmes
Une vieille femme arrive à Ellis Island avec son baluchon. Ellis Island, porte de l'espoir ou des larmes Plus de 12 millions de personnes ont transité par Ellis Island entre 1892 et 1954 pour se rendre dans le pays de tous les possibles ; parfois il y eut plus cie 10 000 personnes par jour. C'est ainsi que 40% des familles américaines sont arrivées aux États -Unis. C ette petite île proche de Manhattan appartient, à la fin du xv111'siècle, à...
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A suggestion of romance
beast feels for Belle grows stronger every day and every night, he would ask her to marry him only to be refused each time. Belle, dreaming of a prince she is persuaded is kept as a prisonner in this castle, always answer him that she only love the Beast as a friend. After several month, Belle eventually become home sick and asks the Beast if he could let her see her family. He allowed her if she would return after one week and give her a mirror where she could see the Beast at any time she wan...
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Feudalism
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Feudalism, contractual system of political and military relationships existing among members of the nobility in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
lord”; thus, it was not rebellion for a subvassal to fight against his lord’s lord. In England, however, William the Conqueror and his successors required their vassals’vassals to take oaths of fealty to them. B Duties of a Vassal Military service in the field was basic to feudalism, but it was far from all that the vassal owed to his lord. When the lord had a castle, he might require his vassals togarrison it, a service called castle-guard. The lord also expected his vassals to attend his cour...
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Military Religious Orders .
Hospitalers’ charitable functions were playing a secondary role to their military duties. Successes in war defending the Holy Land enriched the order with vast gifts ofproperty in Europe and Palestine. In the 12th century the Hospitalers acquired three impressive fortresses in Palestine at Krak des Chevaliers, Belvoir, and Margat. Atthe height of their power in the 13th century, the Hospitalers regularly supplied 500 knights to defend the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem against the Empire. The Crusad...
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Delaware - geography.
D Climate Delaware has generally hot and humid summers and mild winters. D1 Temperature In July, average daytime temperatures are usually in the upper 20°s to lower 30°sC (80°sF) or even higher. But because summer nights tend to be cooler than thedays, July averages are about 24°C (about 75°F). In addition, onshore sea breezes can reduce daytime temperatures along the coast by 3 to 6 Celsius degrees (5 to 10Fahrenheit degrees). January averages range from -1°C (31°F) at Newark, in the north, t...
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Delaware - USA History.
D Climate Delaware has generally hot and humid summers and mild winters. D1 Temperature In July, average daytime temperatures are usually in the upper 20°s to lower 30°sC (80°sF) or even higher. But because summer nights tend to be cooler than thedays, July averages are about 24°C (about 75°F). In addition, onshore sea breezes can reduce daytime temperatures along the coast by 3 to 6 Celsius degrees (5 to 10Fahrenheit degrees). January averages range from -1°C (31°F) at Newark, in the north, t...
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Excerpt from Northanger Abbey - anthology.
“I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time.” “Yes; pretty well; but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?” “Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them. I wis...
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House (architecture)
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Trulli in Alberobello, Italy
Alberobello, in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy, is noted for its unusual limestone houses known as trulli (from
Greek trullos, dome).
Fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, PompeiiThe Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy (built about 50 bc), featured a large hall with this mural encircling it. The mural ispainted in the Second Style of Roman painting. (Historians of art recognize four periods or styles in Roman wall painting.)The mural in the Villa of the Mysteries is thought to depict the initiation rituals of a mystery religion. For this reason, it hasbeen conjectured that the hall was used for cult rituals.Bridgeman Art Li...
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Middle Ages .
Saints were very important in Late Antiquity. They were considered both models of virtue and powerful miracle workers. One of the most well-known saints of the periodwas Saint Anthony. Anthony gave away all his possessions and left his hometown in Egypt to live alone in the desert and pray. Anthony was one of the first Christianmonks. The word monk comes from a term meaning 'alone.' Gradually Anthony attracted followers, and he eventually became the center of a whole community of monks who wis...
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From Robinson Crusoe - anthology.
How strange a Chequer-Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as differing Circumstancespresent! To Day we love what to Morrow we hate; to Day we seek what to Morrow we shun; to Day we desire what to Morrow we fear; nay even tremble at theApprehensions of; this was exemplify'd in me at this Time in the most lively Manner imaginable; for I whose only Affliction was, that I seem'd banished from humanSociety, that I was alone, cir...