Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

At the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, apparently the villa of Caesar's father-in-law, the Greek library has been partly preserved in volcanic ash ; archaeologists speculate that a Latin library, kept separate from the Greek one, may await discovery at the site.

At the Villa Savoye the act of cleansing is represented both by the sink in the entrance hall and the celebration of the health-giving properties of the sun in the solarium on the roof which is given significance by being the culmination of ascending the ramp.

At the summit of Villa Glori, near the spot where Enrico died, there is a plain white column dedicated to the Cairoli brothers and their 70 companions.

At the time the settlement of Thorhem belonged to the homestead of Villa Thorhem.

At the rear of the Villa were positioned ' herm ' statues that derive from the Greek god Hermes, the patron of travellers and thus are welcoming figures for all who wish to visit Lord Burlington's gardens ( Lord Burlington's gardens at Chiswick were the most visited of all London villas.

At the Villa Madama, in the garden facing the loggia, the Elephant Fountain designed by Giovanni da Udine depicts " Annone ", whose tomb was designed by Raphael himself.

At the time, it was named Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria after the Spanish monarch, Philip III.

At Villa he carved out a long career as a midfielder, helping the club win the Third Division title in 1972, and playing in two League Cup finals-they lost in 1971 and won in 1975.

At the end of the sixties he started to create his large sculpture-habitations, such as ' Tour aux figures ', ' Jardin d ' Hiver ' and ' Villa Falbala ' in which people can wander, stay, contemplate etc.

At the end of the 2010 / 11 campaign Moyes was once again linked with the Villa job, following Gerard Houlliers heart scare and he replied to the speculation " As far as I know I'm here and I'm the manager.

At the center of the amphitheater and rather dwarfed by its position is the Egyptian obelisk brought from the Villa Medici at Rome.

At the time he was one of Britain's most expensive defenders, and would go on to win a League Cup winner's medal at Aston Villa ( just missing out on a title medal ) as well as playing more than 200 top division games before finally retiring in 2000.

At " Villa Ocampo " Igor Stravinsky, André Malraux and Rabindranath Tagore had been her guests, also Indira Gandhi, José Ortega y Gasset, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Ernest Ansermet, Rafael Alberti, etc.

At the seaside Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, the villa gardens of Julius Caesar's father-in-law fell away to give pleasant and varied views of the Bay of Naples.

At the seaside Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, the villa gardens of Julius Caesar's father-in-law fell away in a series of terraces, giving pleasant and varied views of the Bay of Naples.

At Villa of Livia, probably part of Livia Drusilla's dowry brought to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, rooms in the cryptoporticus beneath terracing were frescoed with trees in bloom and fruit.

At Villa d ' Este he was assisted in the technical designs for the fountains by a Frenchman, Claude Venard, who was a manufacturer of hydraulic organs.

The Villa D ' Este At Tivoli

At its greatest extent, Villa Baviera was home to some three hundred German and Chilean residents and covered.

* 2003 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

At Lyme, while the central portico, resting upon a base reminiscent of Palladio's Villa Pisani, dominates the facade, the flanking wings are short, and of the same height as the central block, and the terminating pavilions are merely suggested by a slight projection in the facade.

At one time Kiveton was reputed to be the birthplace of more professional footballers than any place its size in England, with the likes of the Chapman brothers, Derrick Ashton ( Aston Villa ), Sidney Cartwright ( Arsenal ), Jack Hicklin ( Sheffield Wednesday ), Leslie Hoften ( Manchester United ), Eric Oakton ( Chelsea ) and Walter Wigmore ( Birmingham City ) all hailing from the village.

At the time, the location now occupied by the city of Chitré was inhabited by a small population of indigenous persons, near La Villa de Los Santos and was governed from Natá.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

At the King Arthur one guest had had his head heavily bandaged, and another had a bandaged foot and had walked with crutches.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

At the beginning of his reign, King David removed the Ark from Kirjath-jearim amid great rejoicing.

At various times the choice was made by the canons of Canterbury Cathedral, the King of England, or the Pope.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1541 the priory's endowment went towards the foundation of a free grammar school, King Henry VIII Grammar School, the site itself passing to the Gunter family.

At about this time, King John hesitated and sent his sons from the battlefield.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

At the time, Kennedy's assassination had been compared to the fall of King Arthur.

At Versailles she was incorporated into the Olympian iconography with which Louis XIV, the Apollo-like " Sun King " liked to surround himself.

At the same time, the English Civil War pitting King against Parliament was just beginning.

At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, the rebellious barons, led by Simon de Montfort, had defeated the royal army and taken King Henry III captive.

At the time, King was directing the first such adaptation, Maximum Overdrive, based on his short story " Trucks ".

At first Honorius based his capital in Mediolanum, but when the Visigoths under King Alaric I entered Italy in 401 he moved his capital to the coastal city of Ravenna, which was protected by a ring of marshes and strong fortifications.

At the failure of the direct Carolingian male line in 911, Conrad was acclaimed King of the Germans, largely because of his weak position in his own duchy.

At that time Tiridates III the son of the late King Khosrov II, reigned.

At the time, the King of Sweden was Gustavus Adolphus ' cousin Sigismund.

At this time he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples ( known as Robert the Wise ) and she is immortalized as the character " Fiammetta " in many of Boccaccio's prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo ( 1338 ).

At the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Polish King John III Sobieski, decisively defeated a large Turkish army, ending the western colonial Ottoman advance and leading to the eventual dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864.

At least from the 13th century, there were seven electors: three spiritual ( the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Archbishop of Cologne ) and four lay: ( the King of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg ; these last three were also known as the Elector Palatine, the Elector of Saxony, and the Elector of Brandenburg, respectively ).

At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

At the age of ten, she married King Haakon VI of Norway and Sweden, who was the son of King Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway.