Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

The National Museum of Computing, an independent voluntary organisation, rents space from the Trust to house its collection of historic computers.

Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or " inne ", several colonial houses, and so on, establishing a scenic historic appearance maintained for both historic preservation and tourism.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | Cedar Hill, Douglass ' house in the Anacostia Historic District | Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D. C., is preserved as a List of areas in the United States National Park System # National historic sites | National Historic Site.

George Stephenson's Birthplace is an 18th century historic house museum in the village of Wylam, and is operated by the National Trust.

* Glendower State Memorial, a historic house in Lebanon, Ohio

The historic Frank-Loeb house is another relic of the Jewish presence in Landau: its proprietor in the late 19th Century was Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank.

The center, named the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War is housed in the historic Conrad Shindler house ( ca.

Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy ( 1961 – 63 ), directed a very extensive and historic redecoration of the house.

In Medina, examples of historic sites which have been destroyed include the Salman al-Farsi Mosque, the Raj ' at ash-Shams Mosque, the Jannat al-Baqi cemetery, and the house of Muhammed.

Within the category of history museums historic house museums are the most numerous.

The establishment of historic house museums increased in popularity through the 1970s and 1980s as the Revolutionary bicentennial set off a wave of patriotism and alerted Americans to the destruction of their physical heritage.

While historic house museums compose the largest section within the historic museum category they usually operate with small staffs and on limited budgets.

An independent survey conducted by Peggy Coats in 1990 revealed that sixty-five percent of historic house museums did not have a full-time staff and 19 to 27 percent of historic homes employed only one full-time employee.

While museums like Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg were visited by over one million tourists a year, more than fifty percent of historic house museums received less than 5, 000 visitors per year.

A common type of history museum is a historic house.

Around that time her half-sister Wynonna Judd gave her a historic farmhouse and some land in Williamson County, Tennessee, so she moved to Tennessee ; that house has been her primary residence in the US ever since.

The Old House, Hereford is an historic black and white house in the centre of High Town in Hereford City.

Main Street of Oakland consists mainly of historic two to four story buildings that house the main shopping in the area, such as a theatre, museum, book store, a local pharmacy, antique shops, clothing stores and banks.

* Castle Rock ( Garrison, New York ), a historic house in the Hudson Highlands

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

At the group or sociological level, historic factors may make the process of assigning satisfactory meanings more or less problematic.

Concerns over the historic episcopate have been sidelined since 2008, though they may re-emerge.

Near the Senegal border there have been historic sightings of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but that endangered canid may now be extirpated in that locale.

Again, the historically consistent reference to the period of the temple construction in, may be contrasted with the impossibility of reconciling Luke's account of the census of with historic records of Quirinius's governorship of Syria.

He feels himself obliged to metamorphose my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself, in order that it may ultimately arrive at the form of economy which will ensure, together with the greatest expansion of the productive powers of

Whether an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament may expressly apply to the Island as regards matters of self-government, or whether this historic power is now in abeyance, is a matter of legal debate.

They may also preserve historic genetic traits and that they provide habitat for wild flora and fauna that may be difficult to recreate in zoos, arboretums or laboratories.

Ancestor worship is no longer present in modern-day Burma ( except within some ethnic minority communities ), but remnants of it still exist, such as worship of Bo Bo Gyi ( literally " great grandfather "), as well as of other guardian spirits such as nats, all of which may be vestiges of historic ancestor worship practices.

The daily activities, historic clothing, and even temperature changes immerse the visitor in a slice of what Tudor life may have been.

The metal hooks are, however, visible and may be unsuitable for historic properties.

Not only may the building itself be architecturally significant, but the church often houses treasures such as stained glass, stone and wood statues, historic tombs, richly carved furniture and objects of both artistic and religious significance such as reliquaries.

It may also be a canting reference to the title of the historic leading Sussex family, the Earls of Arundel, seated at Arundel Castle in the county, as the French for swallow is hirondelle.

Proposals to admit Turkey have been debated but are now currently stalled, partly on the ground that Turkey is beyond Europe's historic frontier and it is yet to comply with the 35 point policy areas set out by the E. U. If all or most East European states become members, the frontier may be the boundaries with Russia and Turkey.

A heritage streetcar may not have the capacity and speed of an LRV, but it will add to the ambiance and historic character of its location.

They may still be found at historic beach locations and in conservation areas to protect the land beneath and around, called boardwalks.

The modern characterization of what may be termed a " legend " may be said to begin 1866 with Jacob Grimm's observation, " The fairy tale is poetic, legend, historic.

Otherwise, they normally only take modifiers that add emotive coloring, such as old Mrs Fletcher, poor Charles, or historic York ; in a formal style, this may include the ( the inimitable Henry Higgins ).

Cultural pilgrims may also travel on religious pilgrimage routes, such as the Way of St. James, with the perspective of making it a historic or architectural tour rather than a religious experience.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;

... But the true historic role of the UIS will be to break down the barriers to the exchange of information among countries and people.

To many historic church denominations, to be " born again " was understood as spiritual regeneration via the sacrament of baptism by the power of water and word.

Polish language productions for Chicago's large Polish speaking population can be seen at the historic Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

One crucial sign of this is that one need not believe, or even do, anything to be Jewish ; the historic definition of ' Jewishness ' requires only that one be born of a Jewish mother, or that one convert to Judaism in accord with Jewish law.

Unfretted instruments tend to have a sweeter, less incisive tone due to the greater load on the bridge resulting from the greater number of strings, though the large, late ( early 19th century ) Swedish clavichords tend to be the loudest of any of the historic clavichords.

However, the church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, both in its Western form and in that of the Eastern Catholic Churches, has always considered itself to be the historic Catholic Church, with all others as " non-Catholics " and regularly refers to itself as " the Catholic Church ".

The historic silting of ports along the southern coasts of Asia Minor ( e. g. Clarus, and the examples of Ephesus, Priene and Miletus, where harbors had to be abandoned because of the silt deposited by the Meander ) and in coastal Syria during the last centuries BC.

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.

To make space for modern topics, valuable material of historic use regularly had to be discarded, at least before the advent of digital encyclopedias.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

Some of the male lecturers in Oxford are still not happy with women getting degrees ; the number of women in the University is restricted by statute to no more than 25 % ( a restriction which would only be removed in the 1970s ); women are segregated in special women's colleges such as Shrewsbury, while the prestigious historic colleges remain exclusively male ; women's colleges are starved for funds and run on a shoestring.

Sanders suggests that John's chronology, even when ostensibly more plausible, should nevertheless be treated with suspicion on the grounds that the Synoptic accounts are otherwise superior as historic sources.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

The historic practice of a bishop tutoring a candidate himself (" Reading for Orders ") is still to be found.

Since 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

There is a large following in Punjab, especially in Ludhiana and Patiala, and there used to be many Jains in Lahore ( Punjab's historic capital ) and other cities before the Partition of 1947, after which many fled to India.