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Fort Orange ( Dutch: Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island and served as a trading post until 1617 or 1618, when it was abandoned ...
History. FM 1623 was first designated in Blanco County in 1951, and ran from US 281 in Blanco to the west approximately 5.0 mi (8.0 km). Its length was extended to 10.3 mi in 1953 and increased again in 1954; the designation ended at the Gillespie County line. The extension into Gillespie County and to US 290 would be approved in 1955.
Bouïra Province. Coordinates. 36°08′50″N 3°41′26″E / . 36.147222°N 3.690556°E. / 36.147222; 3.690556. Remnants of Roman Aquaeduct at Auzia. Auzia was a Roman - Berber colonia in present-day Sour El-Ghozlane, Algeria. The area was located around 150 km south-east of Algiers, in the ancient province of Mauretania Caesariensis .
The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan . The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert . It contains the oldest surviving original ...
William Byrd (/ b ɜːr d /; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent . [1]
In 1563, London experienced its worst episode of plague during the sixteenth century. At least 20,136 people in London and surrounding parishes were recorded to have died of plague during the outbreak. [2] Around 24% of London's population ultimately perished, [3] but the plague affected London's unsanitary parishes and neighbourhoods the most. [4]
The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre , then later to a larger audience at The Globe , in 1613–1614.
