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The title sequence of Annie Hall features a black background with white text in the Windsor Light Condensed typeface, a design that Allen would use on his subsequent films and become a trademark of his.

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His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.
* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The Latin term renes is related to the English word " reins ", a synonym for the kidneys in Shakespearean English ( e. g. Merry Wives of Windsor 3. 5 ), which was also the time the King James Version was translated.
** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.
** Elizabeth II describes this year as an annus horribilis ( horrible year ), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
* June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries The Duke of Windsor ( the former Edward VIII ), in France.
* April 24 – The Duchess of Windsor ( the former Wallis Simpson ), widow of the late Duke of Windsor ( formerly Edward VIII ; b. 1896 )
* January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the throne on the death at Windsor Castle of his father George III ( after 59 years on the throne ), ending the period known as the British Regency.
Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.
His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.
* Treaty of Windsor: Ruaidri Ua Conchobair ( Rory O ' Conner ), the last High King of Ireland, submits to Henry II as vassal of Ireland.
By the treaty of Windsor ( May 9, 1386 ), the alliance between Portugal and England was confirmed and extended.
* Windsor ( automobile ), defunct American automobile maker
** Windsor ( UK Parliament constituency ), the constituency centred around this town
* Windsor ( town ), New York
* Windsor ( village ), New York
* Windsor Township, Pennsylvania ( disambiguation ), multiple places
* Windsor, Wisconsin ( disambiguation ), multiple places
* Windsor railway station ( disambiguation ), several places
* Windsor Hotel ( disambiguation ), several places
* Windsor ( sloop ), a ship wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1816
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor ( previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield ; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986 ), was an American socialite whose third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, abdicated his throne to marry her.

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The Stannus Street Rink in Windsor, Nova Scotia, built in 1897 may be the oldest still in existence, but is no longer used for ice hockey.
From the late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute ; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ) and Measure for Measure ( 1623 ).
* Windsor knot, type of knot used to tie a necktie
* Windsor class attack transport, a class of US Navy ships used to transport troops and their equipment
Another official residence is Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world, which is used principally at weekends, Easter and during Royal Ascot, an annual race meeting that is part of the social calendar.
After republicans used the couple's German heritage as an argument for reform, George abandoned his German titles and renamed the Royal House from the German " Saxe-Coburg and Gotha " to the British " Windsor ".
Under the ownership of the Bec Abbey, timber from the woods around Ruislip-Park Wood, Mad Bess Wood and Copse Wood-was used in the construction of the Tower of London in 1339, Windsor Castle in 1344, the Palace of Westminster in 1346 and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington.
Also in 1996, the Windsor Bowl Center, just east of the Town Green, was used in exterior shots for the movie Dream with the Fishes
The official name is the Village of Windsor, but New Windsor is also used by the village such as the New Windsor Fire Department.
In 1831, part of Conklin was used to form the Town of Windsor, but Conklin received territory from Windsor in 1851.
York Castle formed a key part of the city defences, with a military governor ; rural castles such as Goodrich could be used a bases for raiding and for control of the surrounding countryside ; larger castles, such as Windsor, became used for holding prisoners of war or as military headquarters.
Edinburgh Castle was used as a prisoner of war facility, while Windsor Castle was stripped of more delicate royal treasures and used to guard the British royal family from the dangers of the Blitz.
Colnbrook's High Street was on the main London to Bath road and turn off point for Windsor and was used as a resting point for travellers.
It was so widely used by Elizabethan scholars that Shakespeare was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of Titus Andronicus, quote from it in the first scene of Act II of Henry IV, Part 1 (" Homo is a common name to all men ") and allude to it in the first scene of Act IV of The Merry Wives of Windsor and scene 1 of Act IV of Much Ado about Nothing.
The term birding was also used for the practice of fowling or hunting with firearms as in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ): " She laments sir ... her husband goes this morning a-birding.
Legend has it that King Henry VIII's hunting parties used to pass through Bookham and stop in the Windsor, hence its royal name.
* Cain was traditionally considered to have red hair ; the expression " Cain-coloured beard " is used in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
After Anne's death, a portrait of her painted by Willem Wissing, commissioned by the future Mary II used to hang above the door of the Queen's Drawing Room of the Garden House at Windsor Castle.
The Prince Regent used the route when travelling between Windsor and Brighton, the distances to which are given on the plaque on the obelisk.

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