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Stanisław Moniuszko's opera Straszny Dwór ( in English The Haunted Manor ) ( 1861-4 ) represents a nineteenth century peak of Polish national opera.
The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion.
Cork purchased from Lord Castlehaven for £ 5, 000 the manor of Stalbridge in Dorset, which became his English seat an in 1637 he laid out a further £ 20, 000 for Temple Coombe Manor Close by in Somerset.
The substantive title of " Lord of the Manor " came into use in the English medieval system of feudalism ( or manorialism ) following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
After it was purchased from the Indians it turned out to be and he established the English style Livingston Manor.
" When these troubles were finally at an end, the inducements offered to settlers by the lord of the Manor attracted many emigrants, not only Germans, but Dutch, English, Scotch, Irish and French as well.
Image: Manor House Princes Risborough Bucks Door & pilasters. JPG | Brick pilasters in English domestic architecture c1650.
* Manor ( play ), a 1920s dramatic play by English playwright Martin Murphy
In 2009 English Heritage unveiled a Blue plaque at 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, Essex, the house in which Holloway was born in 1890.
James Peter " Jimmy " Greaves ( born 20 February 1940 in Manor Park, East Ham, England ) is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit-famous for his trademark catchphrase it's a funny old game.
Vinogradoff followed up his Villainage in England with The Growth of the Manor ( 1905 ) and English Society in the Eleventh Century ( 1908 ), works on the lines of his earlier book.
James Harrington blue plaque, installed 4 October 2008, marking the Manor House of Rectory Lane in the English village of Milton Malsor where Harrington lived.
English Heritage plaque for actor Stanley Holloway at 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, Essex established in July 2009
The three lions are the English royal arms, the blue and gold chequers are the arms of the de Warennes, who held the Manor in the 13th century.
* Terence Stamp as Ramsley: The English butler of Gracey Manor who serves as a fatherly figure to Master Gracey.
Its headquarters are at Les Augrès Manor on the isle of Jersey in the English Channel, where what was originally called the Jersey Zoo, now the Durrell Wildlife Park, was established by Gerald Durrell in 1959 as a sanctuary and breeding centre for endangered species.
She was imprisoned for eight years by the English, from October 1306 to July 1308 at Burstwick-in-Holderness, Yorkshire and then transferred to Bisham Manor, Berkshire until March 1312.
Horsenden Manor was garrisoned during the English Civil War for Charles I by the Royalist Sir John Denham who managed to maintain possession after the Restoration.
The style of architecture, which could be described as " English cottage meets Tudor Cheshire Manor house " is informal, the ground floor being of red brick, while the floors above are half-timbered.
The house has appeared in many films, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ), Slipstream ( 1989 ), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ), Philip Kaufman's Marquis de Sade biopic Quills ( 2000 ), The Mummy Returns ( 2001 ), Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 ), Johnny English ( 2003 ), and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ), where it was used as the gothic Wayne Manor.
Large numbers of mines opened during the 19th century including several owned by the Waldegrave family, who had been Lords of the Manor since the English Civil War.
The Waldegrave family had been Lords of the Manor of Radstock since the English Civil War.
The area is characterised by large suburban houses, notably in Manor Road, Hainault Road and Chigwell High Road, which featured in the popular English situation comedy Birds of a Feather ( although many of the outside locations used in that programme were not in Chigwell ).
" The Wild Garden: view in Moat Mead, Gravetye Manor, with Poet's Narcissus in bloom in early summer 1891, planted five years " from The English Flower Garden, sketch by W. E. Norton.

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* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.
The out of print Random House publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is widely regarded as the most accurate and least redacted of any English language edition and is sought after on that basis by scholars and collectors.
Random House halted publication of the Steinsaltz Talmud after less than one-third of the English translation had been published.
The inaugural board meeting of the Corporation of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations was held in the Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island.
" Boudica has also been the primary subject of songs by Irish singer / songwriter Enya, Dutch soprano Petra Berger, Scottish singer / songwriter Steve McDonald, English metal band Bal-Sagoth, Faith and the Muse and Dreams in the Witching House.
At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.
Legislation had been proposed in both the House and the Senate in Delaware to designate English as the official language.
Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall
Strawberry Hill House | Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the " Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic revival " style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.
In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarquable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.
The opera poked fun at English law and the House of Lords and made much of the war between the sexes.
* House, Juliane ( 2002 ), “ Pragmatic Competence in Lingua Franca English ”, in: Knapp, Karlfried / Meierkord, Christiane ( eds.
* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )
It reorganized the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal and also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords with respect to England but, under the act, it would have retained those functions in relation to Scotland and Ireland for the time being.
Finally, when it became clear that the English legal profession was firmly opposed to the reform proposals, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 removed the provisions for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords, although it retained the provisions that established the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
* John Brown ( Wales MP ) ( died c. 1654 ), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653
* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648
Foreign clothes brands and famous Pakistani fashion labels ( such as Amir Adnan, Aijazz, Rizwan Beyg, Deepak Perwani, Shayanne Malik, Maria B, Khaadi, Sputnik Footwear, Metro Shoes, English Boot House, Cotton & Cotton, Men's Store and Junaid Jamshed ) are present in shopping districts of the city.
She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

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