The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

Over the next four hundred years the Castle was successively developed according to contemporary architectural ideas.

A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased 17th century Aberdour House, on the west side of the burn and in Wester Aberdour, and the medieval Castle was allowed to fall into relative decay.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

During the period 1825 – 1863 a sheep market was held at a site in Castle Street, to stop the sale of sheep on the streets of the town.

* 1870: In this cleared land a small Shinto shrine once in old Edo Castle was built.

He made his headquarters at Chicago's Lexington Hotel ; after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, it was nicknamed " Capone's Castle ".

Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor Silvester.

In 1887, when Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in Lancashire in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Windermere.

In 1911, Bartók wrote what was to be his only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, dedicated to Márta.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

In 1798 the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals, which ran into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.

It was demolished, and the current Balmoral Castle was completed in 1856.

Balmoral Castle was the birthplace of Victoria Eugenie of Spain, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

In 1831, a legislative assembly was established by local consent at a meeting of principal inhabitants held at Pedro St. James Castle on December 5 of that year.

Its city walls were much imitated ( for example, see Caernarfon Castle ) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

In 1865 the ' Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet ' was published by Edmund Routledge.

The Castle of Ziesar ( Burg Ziesar ), now a museum also showing the history of the Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg.

Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.

Castle of the Winds also allows the player to restore saved games after dying.

* Gradačac Castle is a citadel, also a palace of Husein " Dragon Of Bosnia " Gradaščević who was a renowned 19th-century military Bosnian Captain, overlooking the historic core of Gradačac-National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The park is also home to Dublin Zoo, the official residence of the United States Ambassador, and Ashtown Castle.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

According to Ducellier the Petrelë Castle | castle of Petrela was the access point to the region known with this name On the location of Arbanon see also

Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).

The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 was " probably the longest in English history " according to historian Norman Pounds, and at the time was also the largest siege to have occurred in England in terms of the number of soldiers involved.

Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the editor of Country Life, Edward Hudson.

John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a state funeral in Halifax.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

When that label went bankrupt, the album was released on the ill-fated Castle Records which also experienced financial troubles.

On 28 March 1193 Richard was brought to Speyer and handed over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who was aggrieved both by the support which the Plantagenets had given to the family of Henry the Lion, and also by Richard's recognition of Tancred in Sicily, and who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle.

Bruce also made raids into northern England and, landing at Ramsey in the Isle of Man, then laid siege to Castle Rushen in Castletown capturing it on 21 June 1313 to deny the island's strategic importance to the English.

Statues of the Bruce also stand on the battleground at Bannockburn, outside Stirling Castle and Marischal College in Aberdeen.

*" Super Bon Bon " ( off Irresistible Bliss ) appeared in " Strangers and Other Partners ," episodes of the television series Homicide: Life on the Street, Long Term Parking, The Sopranos, and Castle, and was also the theme song of ECW wrestler Danny Doring and Roadkill.

Siege towers also became more elaborate during the medieval period ; at the Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, for example, 200 archers and 11 catapults operated from a single tower.

Turkey also renounced all claims on the Dodecanese Islands, which Italy was obliged to return to Turkey according to Article 2 of the Treaty of Ouchy in 1912-also known as the First Treaty of Lausanne ( 1912 ), as it was signed at the Ouchy Castle in Lausanne, Switzerland-following the Italo-Turkish War ( 1911 – 1912 ).

From July 1765, he also served as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and began service as the customs collector at New Castle in 1771.

An example in print is Marvel Comics ' the Punisher, also known as Frank Castle.

Vratislaus is credited with the establishment of St. George's Basilica at Prague Castle and also with the foundation of the Silesian city of Wrocław ( Vratislavia ).