Part of the Bassae Frieze ( from the temple of Apollo Epikurios ) at the British Museum.

From 8 November 2001-24 March 2002, The British Museum had an exhibit named “ Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia ”, which presented a fascinating look at the secret life of Agatha Christie and the influences of archaeology in her life and works.

Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).

A bronze medal on display in the British Museum shows Agrippina ’ s ashes being brought back to Rome by Caligula.

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The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

470 BC, British Museum, London

As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.

The Nimrud Lens is held in the British Museum.

British Museum Press, 2002.

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.

Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

) 2000 Years of Zinc and Brass London: British Museum

( eds ) Mining and Metal Production Through the Ages London: British Museum

) 2000 Years of Zinc and Brass London: British Museum

British Museum.

In addition, The Verse Account of Nabonidus ( British Museum tablet 38299 ) states, " entrusted the army (?

British Museum, London

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is owned by Frederick Warne and Company, The Tailor of Gloucester by the Tate Gallery and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by the British Museum.

* The Iceni Hoard at the British Museum

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

The British Museum houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Ethnographic material from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, representing the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

By 1888, over 3, 000 British public houses, grocers and chemists were selling Bovril.

These doors are generally red or brown in color and bear a resemblance to the more formal doors found in other British Colonies ' public houses.

For example, a large fraction of American houses use wood, while most British and many European houses utilize stone or brick.

Since 1714, the succession of the British monarchs of the houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Windsor ) has been due to their descent from James VI and I of the House of Stuart.

* 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

The Rosetta Stone was transferred to the sculpture gallery in 1834 shortly after Montagu House was demolished and replaced by the building that now houses the British Museum.

Two sovereign monarchies officially outside the Empire were granted a higher honour: 31 guns for the royal houses of Afghanistan ( under British and Russian influence ), and Siam ( which was then ruled by the Rattanakosin Kingdom ).

While the Legislative Councils in British Australasian and North American colonies were unelected upper houses and some of them had since abolished themselves, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong has remained the sole chamber and had in 1995 evolved into a fully elected house, yet only part of the seats are returned by universal suffrage.

The Act would prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race in certain areas of British life, particularly housing, where many local authorities had been refusing to provide houses for immigrant families until they had lived in the country for a certain number of years.

* Princely state treats the nobility, mainly ruling houses, in the colonial context of the British Empire

Shortly afterwards they destroyed the remaining houses, on the grounds that they might provide cover for British soldiers.

Though some sources claim that colonial American houses often lacked closets because of a " closet tax " imposed by the British crown, others argue that closets were absent in most houses simply because their residents had few possessions.

The city houses many cultural institutes such as the Russian Cultural Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute, the Hungarian Institute, the Czech and the Slovak Cultural Institutes, the Italian Cultural Institute, the French Cultural Institute, Goethe Institut, British Council, Instituto Cervantes, and the Open Society Institute, which regularly organise temporary expositions of visual, sound and literary works by artists from their respective countries.

The British Film Institute houses an early film, made in 1913, in which a miniature car commissioned by Queen Alexandra for the Crown Prince Olav tows a procession of Londoners through the streets of the capital, before being delivered to a pair of ' royal testers ' of roughly Olav's age.

The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art.

In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, or the Tate Modern, which consists of a federation of four museums: Tate Britain which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day ; Tate Modern which is also in London, houses the Tate's collection of British and International Modern and Contemporary Art from 1900 to the present day.

Recent projects have included the £ 35 million renovation of the Lionel Robbins Building, which houses the British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE's Library and a brand new Student Services Centre in the Old Building as well as LSE Garrick on the junction of Houghton Street and Aldwych.

Originally settled almost entirely by immigrants of British and Irish stock, Worcester County was divided during the colonial period into several parishes, though Quakers, Presbyterians, and later Methodists also set up meeting houses.