* 1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.

Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

In this role, St-Laurent represented Canada at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations ( UN ).

Between 21 August and 7 October 1944 the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held, which among other things created an international court attached to the United Nations, to succeed the Permanent Court of International Justice.

* Hanfmann, George M. A., " The Scylla of Corvey and Her Ancestors " Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41 " Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday " ( 1987 ), pp. 249 – 260.

* Dumbarton Oaks, Catalogue of late Roman coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: from Arcadius and Honorius to the accession of Anastasius, 1992

" Hestia full of Blessings ", Egypt, 6th century tapestry ( Dumbarton Oaks Collection )

English translation by Timothy Miller, in J. Thomas and A. C. Hero, eds., Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies 35 ) ( Washington, 2000 ), I. 67 – 83.

* Manuel II Palaeologus, The Letters of Manuel II Palaeologus George T. Dennis ( translator ), Dumbarton Oaks, 1977.

Late antique textile, Egypt ian, now in the Dumbarton Oaks collection.

* Dumbarton Oaks Library, Harvard University ; Washington, D. C. ( 2005 )

Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington D. C., 1993

* Dumbarton Oaks, Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Leo III to Nicephorus Iii, 717 – 1081 ( 1973 )

Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D. C., USA site of her best known garden design

Dumbarton Oaks site plan

Her most notable work was at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in the Georgetown district of Washington, D. C. for Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss ( 1922 – 1940 ).

Dumbarton Oaks is considered one of the best American neo-classicist gardens.

Extant Farrand private gardens in the eastern U. S. are: the Bliss family's Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D. C .; the Harkness summer home ' Eolia ' in Waterford, Connecticut ( 1918 – 1924 )-now preserved as the Harkness Memorial State Park ; and the Rockefellers ' estate ' The Eyrie ' in Seal Harbor, Maine.

Berkeley ) campus, except for the Dumbarton Oaks documents located at the library there, and the Arnold Arboretum drawings in their archives, both under the stewardship of Harvard.

One of the few representations of Tethys that is identified securely by an accompanying inscription is the Late Antique ( fourth century CE ) mosaic from the flooring of a thermae at Antioch, now at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts after being moved from Dumbarton Oaks.

Three bridges — the Dumbarton Bridge, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge — cross San Francisco Bay from the Peninsula.

Charles E. Bohlen writes that the Dumbarton Oaks Conference " settled all but two issues regarding the organization of the United Nations — the voting procedure in the Security Council and the Soviet pressure for the admission of all sixteen of the Soviet republics to the General Assembly.

In 1824, after an interval of fourteen years, the third volume appeared, giving, under the same headings, a description of the seven south-western counties — Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Ayr, Lanark, Renfrew and Dumbarton.

* Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D. C .; estate of Woods — Bliss Family, landscape architecture by Beatrix Farrand

At the same time they gave a portion of the grounds — some 27 acres — to the National Park Service to establish the Dumbarton Oaks Park.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

The next three years saw the capture and reduction of one English-held castle or outpost after another: Linlithgow in 1310, Dumbarton in 1311, and Perth, by Bruce himself, in January 1312.

David II and his Queen were moved to the safety of Dumbarton Castle, while Berwick surrendered and was annexed by Edward.

After the sack of Dumbarton Rock by a Viking army from Dublin in 870, the name Strathclyde comes into use, perhaps reflecting a move of the centre of the kingdom to Govan.

The first is Coroticus or Ceretic ( Ceredig ), known as the recipient of a letter from Saint Patrick, and stated by a 7th century biographer to have been king of the Height of the Clyde, Dumbarton Rock, placing him in the second half of the 5th century.

According to the earlier chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100 – c. 1155 ), Ebraucus had fifty children by his twenty wives, and was the founder of " Kaerebrauc " ( York ), " Alclud " ( Dumbarton ), and the " Maidens ' Castle ".

Under the terms of the Acts of Union, which joined England and Scotland in 1707, Edinburgh was one of the four Scottish castles to be maintained and permanently garrisoned by the new British Army, along with Stirling, Dumbarton and Blackness.

As of 2006 the hardest climb was graded E11: Rhapsody on Dumbarton Rock, climbed by Dave MacLeod, featured French 8c + climbing with the potential of a 20-metre fall onto a small wire.

In January 2009 the route was climbed by Dave MacLeod of Dumbarton fame, who downgraded the route to an E9 6c.

Robert's estates were overrun by Balliol, who granted them to David Strathbogie, titular earl of Atholl but Robert evaded capture and gained protection at Dumbarton Castle where King David was also taking refuge.

Robert III ’ s period of personal rule from 1393 was " disastrous " according to Barrell, and was exemplified by the king ’ s failure to re-take the royal fortress of Dumbarton.

While at Dumbarton, she once had her lunch money stolen by fellow pupil, actor Rob Brydon.

When in June 1944 the State Department found that Dumbarton Oaks could “ comfortably accommodate ” the delegates and that “ the environment ideal ", the offer was renewed by James B. Conant, the president of Harvard University, in a letter of June 30, 1944.

It was Mary's intention to avoid battle if possible, retiring instead to Dumbarton Castle, still held for her by John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming.

With the intention of by-passing Moray she marched to Rutherglen castle meeting loyal supporters and then on a wide circuit past Glasgow, intending to move by way of Langside, Crookston and Paisley back towards the River Clyde, and then on to Dumbarton on the north side of the Clyde estuary.

In 870 Dumbarton was besieged by Amlaíb Conung and Ímar, " the two kings of the Northmen ", who " returned to Dublin from Britain " the following year with numerous captives.

Modern Dumbarton Castle, the site of the 9th-century siege by the Uí Ímair

She is now being restored at Balloch pier by the Loch Lomond Steamship Company, a charitable organisation, supported by Dumbarton District Council.