Supposedly, one of the owners of the property did erect a very simple stone on the site of the grave in 1612, which said, “Here lies the Body of Richard III, Some Time King of England.” However, that stone eventually vanished. The burial site of Richard III was simply forgotten. Som...
Who discovered Ramses II? Who is buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Who became king of England after George II? Who killed Hannibal? Who was king when William Kidd sailed? Who fought King Henry VII for his kingdom? Who shot James Meredith?
In 1848 France again became a republic and L-P, like all the other deposed rulers of 19th century France, fled to England. That republic only lasted 3 years until, once again, it was overturned by a Bonaparte (this time Louis-Napoleon, who had escaped from prison and got elected to ...
ROAD WARRIOR…William Kissam Vanderbilt II(top right) staged his Vanderbilt Cup Races on his private road until a fatal accident put a stop to the fun in 1910; At bottom right, a surviving section of the road today. Most of the road in Queens is a bicycle trail, and other segments stil...
[1] In his review in The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote, “Two previous film versions of Tom Brown’s Schooldays (one from England) pale beside this home‐screen project, which so far (two chapters) seems almost too good to be true, even from Masterpiece Theater.” The ...
1215 The Year of Magna Cartaby Danny Danziger & John Gillingham;The Life and times of King Johnby Maurice Ashley;The Plantagenets, the Kings Who Made Englandby Dan Jones;England Under the Norman and Angevin Kingsby Robert Bartlett; lincolnshirelife.co.uk;catherinehanley.co.uk; magnacarta800th...
Queen Elizabeth II isa direct descendant of Elizabeth of York: TRUE. The present queen of England's ancestry traces back through the Hanovers of Germany to the Stuarts through a daughter of James I. Is Richard III related to Queen Elizabeth?
During the Middle Ages, the partition of the cadaver of the elite members was a current practice, with highly technical treatment given to symbolic organs such as the heart. Considered mostly from a theoretical point of view, this notion of dilaceratio corporis has never been biologically explore...
Newspaper article from The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Article details Beginning of article Byline: Richard Johnson When I appeared in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, I played against type. My role was a super-rich, scheming, manipulative leader of a gang of miscreants bent on ta...
I had never been out of England, and my dramatic knowledge was limited to pantomimes, for which these enthusiastic students of musical comedy expressed a large contempt. Some of them were allowed to shoot with real guns in the holidays, which reminded me of the worst excesses of my brother...