In 1678, Louis XIV commissioned the court jeweller, Sieur Pitau, to recut the Tavernier Blue, resulting in a stone which royal inventories thereafter listed as the Blue Diamond of the Crown of France ( diamant bleu de la Couronne de France ), but later English-speaking historians have simply called it the French Blue.

Chetel was deposed after the Norman Conquest and in the Domesday Book the Manor of Chetesuorde is listed as the property of the Crown in the custody of William de Peverel.

Betfair's Australian and New Zealand operations are a 50: 50 joint venture between Betfair UK and Crown Limited ( listed on the ASX ).

In The Satanic Bible, Leviathan is listed as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell.

Directly ahead is the former Shire Hall ( also listed Grade I ) which now houses the Crown Courts.

In June 2008, Fenech won the Shane Warne 888 Poker World Series of Poker Celebrity Bounty Event at Crown Casino sponsored by 888 Poker ( owned by 888 Holdings PLC, a public listed company in London ).

They are listed in the order of succession to the Crown.

Nine Granada programmes were listed in the BFI TV 100 in 2000 and some of its most notable programmes include Coronation Street, Seven Up !, The Royle Family, The Jewel in the Crown, Brideshead Revisited, World in Action, University Challenge and The Krypton Factor.

He appoints clergymen in such of the ecclesiastical livings under the patronage of the Crown as are officially listed as being worth less than £ 20 per annum.

In 1890 Bulmer & Co listed 12 Inns in Yarm ; Black Bull, Cross Keys, Crown Inn, Fleece, George and Dragon, Green Tree, Ketton Ox, Lord Nelson, Red Lion, Three Tuns, Tom Brown, and Union.

There are two public houses ; the New Inn is a grade II listed building, dating from the 17th century, and The Crown Inn, which is over 200 years old.

About one third of this estate, generally the land considered most valuable, has been protected from mining since 1997 via being listed in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 ( though recent ( 2010 ) moves by the Fifth National Government have proposed exemption some areas from Schedule 4 ).

The major offices of the royal household are sometimes listed as the grands officiers de la maison du roi de France, not to be confused with the Great Officers of the Crown of France, with which it overlaps in part.

The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ) and includes areas along Crown Street.

It was later revealed that Raymond Chan, the government official claiming to have negotiated the deal, had purposely misled both the ministers of the Crown and the public and some of the groups named as being party to the agreement stated publicly that their names had been used without permission ; several other groups listed did not even exist.

*" She Said " was previously released as a hidden track on Dosage, where it was merged on the same track as the album's listed closer " Crown ".

The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, was originally listed by José de Sigüenza, in the inventory of the Spanish Crown as La Pintura del Madrono – " The Painting of the Strawberry Tree ".

Unbridled is also the last stallion to have sired at least one winner in each of the American Triple Crown races ( first for each listed ): Grindstone, Kentucky Derby, 1996 ; Red Bullet, Preakness Stakes, 2000 ; and Empire Maker, Belmont Stakes, 2003.

Proponents of such a union among the Polish nobility, including then influential secular thinkers such as Jan Zamoyski and Lew Sapieha, listed several arguments: peace on the turbulent eastern border, a powerful military ally and relatively sparsely populated territories ( compared to the Polish Crown ) for colonization and serfdom.

* In University of California, Santa Cruz, in Crown College, a dormitory building is named after him,

His own practice was based on intensive personal involvement in design efforts to create prototype solutions for building types ( 860 Lake Shore Drive, the Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, S. R. Crown Hall, The New National Gallery ), then allowing his studio designers to develop derivative buildings under his supervision.

Today the Rose and Crown shop occupies the building.

The latter commenced the building of Scalloway Castle, but after his imprisonment in 1609 the Crown annexed Orkney and Shetland again until 1643 when Charles I granted them to William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton.

This building included the Arie Crown Theater, designed by Edward Durrell Stone.

The Arie Crown Theatre sustained only minor damage in the 1967 fire, and so was incorporated into the interior of the new building.

One-fourth of all the lands acquired were to be reserved to the Crown for the building of ports, hospitals and shipyards.

The former Lodge's supermarket building had been sitting empty in the heart of the town since the Co-op moved to new premises in Crown Bottom.

It was the location of the County of London Sessions House from 1917, in a building now occupied by the Inner London Crown Court.

Snaresbrook's most notable building is Snaresbrook Crown Court.

The cathedral explains that St Paul's receives little regular or significant funding from the Crown, Church or the State and claims to rely on the income generated by tourism to allow the building to continue to function as a centre for Christian worship, as well as to cover general maintenance and repair work.

In 1991, the Crown Center on 5005 Rockside Road was built making it the tallest building between Downtown Cleveland and Akron.

It was from this building the Crown Jewels of Ireland | Irish Crown Jewels were stolen in 1907.

On the opposite side of the road and slightly nearer to Crown Point is the building that once housed the local mines rescue station, now two private houses.

The Central Criminal Court in England and Wales, commonly known as the Old Bailey from the street in which it stands, is a court building in central London, one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.

The Priory was dissolved in 1538 and the local church parishioners of St Margaret, Southwark acquired the building from the Crown shortly afterwards to provide a larger parish church for the growing population.

A Mrs Simmonds ran a tiny sweet and food store in the ancient building opposite side of Church Hill to the White Horse, and a Spar shop and Butchers were situated near to the Crown Pub.

In Crown Street in Sydney, a building which includes a couple of terraced houses has been named for Hercules Robinson.

The first sale of Crown lands in St Kilda took place on 7 December 1842, and the wealthy began building houses by the seashore, and a port developing at Williamstown.

* The Crown Hotel-the original site of the hotel which gave its name to Crown Square is now a building society office.

The Assize Courts building now houses the York Crown Court, while the former Debtors ' Prison and Female Prison, together with a modern entrance area, are now the Castle Museum.

According to archaeologists Patricia Crown and Steadman Upham, the appearance of the bright colors on Salada Polychromes in the 14th century may reflect religious or political alliances on a regional level.

Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

* 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.

Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘ common burdens ' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

In Eger ( Cheb ) on 11 November 1464 Albert married Zdenka ( Sidonie ), daughter of George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia ; but failed to obtain the Bohemian Crown on the death of George in 1471.

In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.

Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, the series dealt comically with a number of medieval issues in Britain – witchcraft, Royal succession, European relations, the Crusades and the conflict between the Church and the Crown.

The leadership was tried before a kangaroo court and convicted on false charges unrelated to Sarajevo, such as plotting an assassinations of Nikola Pašić and Crown prince Aleksandar ; many were given death sentences.

For all these reasons Costa Rica was by and large unappreciated and overlooked by the Spanish Crown and left to develop on its own.

Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.

That meant limits on the powers of the Crown, since he found the institutions of Parliament to be better informed than commissions appointed by the executive.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

In a 1998 trial James McArdle was imprisoned for 25 years after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court that ended on June 24.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

During his minority as her ward, one third of his estate had already reverted to the Crown, much of which Elizabeth had long since settled on Robert Dudley.

After finally paying the Crown the £ 4, 000 it demanded for his livery, he was finally licenced to enter on his lands in May.

After Essex's co-conspirator Sir Charles Danvers was executed on in March, Oxford became involved in a complicated suit regarding lands which had reverted to the Crown by escheat at Danvers ' attainder, a suit opposed by Danvers ' kinsmen.

Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era.

On the death of his father King John on 29 October 1873, the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne as King Albert.