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16 hours ago · Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex, though entitled to the styles "Princess Louise of Edinburgh" and "Prince James of Edinburgh", respectively, are not called prince and princess, as their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, wanted them to have more modest titles. [10]
16 hours ago · Animation of a schematic Newcomen engine. – Steam is shown pink and water is blue. – Valves move from open (green) to closed (red) Thomas Newcomen (/ ˈnjuːkʌmən /; February 1664 [i][1] – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712. He was an ironmonger by ...
Several primary sources exist for Hereward's life, but the accuracy of their information is difficult to evaluate. They are the version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written at Peterborough Abbey (the "E manuscript" or Peterborough Chronicle), the Domesday Book, the Liber Eliensis (Latin 'Book of Ely') and, much the most detailed, the Gesta Herewardi.
16 hours ago · Comus. (Milton) Comus (A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas 1634 before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. The masque is known colloquially as Comus, but the ...
16 hours ago · James earnestly tried "to improve the position of his fellow Catholics" and did so "in such an inept way that he aroused the fears of both the Anglican establishment and the Dissenters. [81] In the process, he encouraged converts like the poet John Dryden , who wrote " The Hind and the Panther ", to celebrate his conversion.
16 hours ago · 1043: Der seit dem Vorjahr regierende Angelsachse Eduard der Bekenner aus dem Haus Wessex wird im Münster von Winchester zum König von England gekrönt. 1254: Im Frieden von Ofen einigen sich der böhmische König Ottokar II. Přemysl und der ungarische König Béla IV. über die Aufteilung des Herzogtums Österreich und des Herzogtums ...
16 hours ago · 1979 wechselte Franke wieder zurück zu Goldmann und fortan war Jeschke allein verantwortlich für Science-fiction & Fantasy im Heyne Verlag. Mit diesem Wechsel wurde auch Abschied genommen von der bisherigen Praxis, Texte – teilweise radikal – auf einen Umfang von 9 oder 11 Bögen (entsprechend 144 bzw. 176 Seiten) zu kürzen und nur ausnahmsweise Titel mit größerem Umfang, dann mit ...
