There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th-and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

For example, when Whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

For example, the plot of Robin Hood's Death, found in the Percy Folio, is summarised in the 15th-century A Gest of Robyn Hode, and it also appears in an 18th-century version.

The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy ( скопцы ) sect was an example of a castration cult, where its members regarded castration as a way of renouncing the sins of the flesh.

A standard item of masquerade dress was a " Vandyke ", improvised on the costumes worn in the portraits of Van Dyck: Gainsborough's Blue Boy is the most familiar example, and a reminder of the later 18th-century popularity in England for portraits in fancy dress.

Loddon has many fine buildings ; from the 15th-century parish church of Holy Trinity, through the 18th-century " Loddon House " ( originally a mental institution ), to " Farthing Green House ", which is a good example of Georgian architecture.

Mansfield Center Cemetery, which contains many 18th-century gravestones, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a fine example of the rich artistic tradition of funerary stone carving in colonial New England.

Nathan Bailey's 18th-century Universal Etymological English Dictionary, for example, contains an entry for epicharikaky that gives its etymology as a compound of ἐπί epi ( upon ), χαρά chara ( joy ), and κακόν kakon ( evil ).

It was built between 1769 and 1779 to the designs of architect Thomas Cooley and is a notable example of 18th-century architecture in the city.

One might cite ( though MacIntyre does not ) the rapid emergence of abolitionist thought in the slave-holding societies of the 18th-century Atlantic world as an example of this sort of change: over a relatively short period of time, perhaps 1760 to 1800, in Britain, France, and British America, slave-holding, previously thought to be morally neutral or even virtuous, rapidly became seen as vicious among wide swathes of society.

File: Andechs Kloster interior 027. JPG | 18th-century Bavarian example with Rococo setting

For example, a copy of a less-important 18th-century book known to have been owned by Voltaire would achieve a value many times its stand-alone market value, simply because it was once in Voltaire's possession.

An example of this may be observed through the alleyway adjacent to the almost time-frozen Market Place hardware merchant ( J. B. Banks and Son ) where 18th-century dye workers ' cottages line one side of the lane and the former works faces them across the narrow cobbled lane.

Unlike other notable churches of the period ( for example Christ Church, Spitalfields, whose crypt was excavated by archaeologists in the 1980s yielding much information about the 18th-century inhabitants of the parish ), the crypt of St. John's was never used for burials.

A brief example is the following line of verse, or mısra ( مصراع ), by the 18th-century judge and poet Hayatî Efendi:

A good example of 18th-century wooden railway can be found in the Merry Tom mine, near Via Gellia.

In an 18th-century example the Brassington barmaster, Edward Ashton, followed the rules after a death in Throstle Nest mine.

" Abbreviations are often indicated by a colon, as in 18th-century handwriting, for example " Sen: Co: Prae :" ( Senior Commoner Prefect ), or else by a macron, for example " mathmā " and " examinā ".

In Trickster Travels ( 2006 ), she describes how the early 16th-century North African Muslim " Leo Africanus " ( Hasan al-Wazzan ) managed to live as a Christian in Italy after he was kidnapped by Christian pirates and also sees his writings as an example of “ the possibility of communication and curiosity in a world divided by violence .” Her book ( in-process ), Braided Histories on 18th-century Suriname studies networks of communication and association among families, both slave and free, on the plantations of Christian and Jewish settlers.

The " Earl of Erroll ", for example, is almost certainly based on an 18th-century Irish-style hard shoe dance, although today's Highland dancers perform it in the usual Ghillies.

He has also dabbled in composing various pieces in the style of late 17th-to early 18th-century dance music, and is often cited by Tom Collier and Tom Slabaugh in their lectures as a prime example of music transformation.

A brief example is the following line of verse, or mısra ( مصراع ), by the 18th-century judge and poet Hayatî Efendi:

This was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London.

" The Anacreontic Song ", also known by its incipit " To Anacreon in Heaven ", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London.

The first part of the song is anticipated by other Emmett compositions, including " De Wild Goose-Nation " ( 1844 ), itself a derivative of " Gumbo Chaff " ( 1830s ) and ultimately an 18th-century English song called " Bow Wow Wow ".

This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.

A farcical take on the legend, the play is filled with 18th-century political and literary satire and is intended as a parody of heroic tragedies.

Palazzo Iliceto is an imposing 18th-century building intended as an exhibition space for special exhibits.

The series is set on an alternate 18th-century Earth.

The main feature of the city is essentially the Monastery that proudly presents a long and sombre façade with 18th-century embellishments.

This myth is also recorded in an 18th-century Swedish folksong called Hammar-Hemtningen ( the taking of the hammer ), where Freyja is called Miss Frojenborg, " den väna solen " ( the fair sun ).

An 18th-century working Newcomen steam engine is on display in the town.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

The office has its origin in the 18th-century colonial governors of New South Wales upon its settlement in 1788, and thus is the oldest continuous institution in Australia.

The rhythm of the poem, like its themes and images, is different from other poems Coleridge wrote during the time, and it is organised in a structure similar to 18th-century odes.

Ronald Hutton suggests following the 18th-century Welsh clergyman antiquary John Pettingall that it is merely an Anglicisation of Gŵyl Awst, the Welsh name of the " feast of August ".

It is a dangerous place ; an 18th-century writer recorded people drowning there.

Later 18th-century composers wrote few motets, although Mozart's well-known Ave verum corpus ( K. 618 ) is in this genre.

Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

The term fortepiano is nowadays often used to distinguish the 18th-century instrument from later pianos.

His grave has been claimed to be at Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in West Yorkshire, as implied by the 18th-century version of Robin Hood's Death, and there is a headstone there of dubious authenticity.

Serpens and Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

Rococo ( or ), less commonly roccoco, also referred to as " Late Baroque ", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre.

Sausthorpe Hall is a late 18th-century grade II listed country house, extended and remodelled in 1822.

The Old Hall is a grade II * listed 15th-century house, with 16th-and 18th-century alterations.

A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner ( named for the 18th-century French mathematician and philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, who championed such outcomes ).

Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States.

" Gelert's grave " is a popular tourist attraction in Beddgelert but is thought to have been created by an 18th-century innkeeper to boost the tourist trade.