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In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.
The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished and work on the King's Library Gallery began in 1823.
The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.
Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.
Replica of the Rosetta Stone as it was originally displayed, within the King's Library of the British Museum
A replica of the Rosetta Stone as it would have appeared to early 19th-century visitors — without a case and free to touch — is now available in the King's Library of the British Museum.
Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington D. C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the Library of Congress that named King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.
The bill allowed for fines for anyone who imported or traded in unlicensed or foreign books, required every book that would be given copyright protection to be entered into the Stationers ' Register, provided a legal deposit system centred around the King's Library, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but said nothing about limiting the term of copyright.
The tower is 50 metres high, and is the tallest structure in Cambridge ( followed by the Cambridge University Library and King's College Chapel ).
The Library Policeman was written after King's son did not want to go to the library as he was afraid of the library police.
New American Library bought the paperback rights for $ 400, 000, which, according to King's contract with Doubleday, was split between them.
This also makes it the second largest single entity library in Britain, after the British Library at King's Cross.
West of King's Cross are, in succession, the reconstructed and restored St Pancras, the British Library and Euston, all within a few minutes ' walk.
The chambers were the priority, with parts of King's Bench Walk finished in 1949, and the final building ( the Library ) was opened on 21 April 1958.
The Chancery Lane building is now known as the Maughan Library, the largest library of King's College London.
King's Cross and St Pancras railway stations are at the eastern end of the road, the British Library is nearby, and Euston railway station is a little further to the west.
The elegance of the Beinecke later inspired the glass-walled structure that holds the original core collection of the British Library ( the books gifted by King George III and referred to as the King's Library within the British Library building in Euston, London ).
King's diaries assembled after his death missed a single volume for November 10 to December 31, 1945, according to Library and Archives Canada.
The Grade I listed building stands on Euston Road in St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, between the British Library, King's Cross station and the Regent's Canal.
His papers are archived at the University of Birmingham, British Library, King's College, Cambridge, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the University of Exeter, the University of San Francisco, Warwickshire Record Office, and William Salt Library.
The House was located originally on the site which is now the New Bodleian Library in a house opposite the King's Arms public house.

King's and on
In the meadow below, militia officers shouted at their men and on King's Bridge two boys sat fishing.
The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.
They were married at King's Chapel on May 22, 1830 ; he was 30 years old and she was 29.
But Murron is captured and publicly executed by the sheriff, who proclaims " an assault on the King's soldiers is the same as an assault on the King himself.
The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.
In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.
File: Ogrodzieniec castle 20070504 1037. jpg | Ruins of the Ogrodzieniec Castle, built on the King's order
File: Ukraine-Lviv-Latin Cathedral-4. jpg | Latin Cathedral in Lviv, construction began in 1360 on the King's order
File: Zamek sanok. JPG | the Castle in Sanok, built on the King's order
The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta, which explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became English writ of habeas corpus, safeguarding individual freedom against unlawful imprisonment with right to appeal.
He suggested that it was not a papal banner to the King but a papal banner to the Churchly legate in the North, more specifically to archbishop Andreas Sunesøn, which he – without the knowledge of the King – brought with him on the King's crusade in the Baltic countries, in an effort to make the army take on a Christian symbol ( over the king's symbol ) and thereby strengthen the power of the church.
There Thomas collaborated with Davenport on the satire The Death of the King's Canary, though due to fears of libel the work was not published until 1976.
The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.
The King's acquiescence with the demands of the upper orders led to the deputies of the Third Estate renaming themselves as the National Assembly on June 17.
He died six days later, of unknown causes, at King's Place, Hackney, and was buried on 6 July in the parish church of St. Augustine.
* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.
Fueled by rumors of a reception for the King's bodyguards on 1 October 1789 at which the national cockade had been trampled upon, on 5 October 1789 crowds of women began to assemble at Parisian markets.

King's and ground
New Malden includes Motspur Park, home to the training ground of Fulham Football Club and also the King's College, London sports ground, home to the training ground of AFC Wimbledon.
Only the King's photo in a ceremonial dress adorns a hall in the ground floor.
Davison falling to the ground after being struck by the King's horse
The King's footguards stood their ground well, but were finally obliged to surrender.
When Hester dies, she is buried in " a new grave near an old and sunken one, in that burial ground beside which King's Chapel has since been built.
* King's Chapel burying ground
On the evening of 5 May, the Dukes attacked, from the 5th Grenadier Guards positions at Pt 171, with support on the right from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry ( KLSI ), from ground held by the Gordon's.
Exact burial sites and markers for many first-generation settlers in that ground were lost with the — probably deliberate — placement of Boston's first Anglican church, King's Chapel I ( 1686 ) over them ; the present stone marker, placed by the church, is likely a cenotaph.
** Splendidam & Gravem — " Splendid and Heavy " ( around the Crown of England, removed from the King's head and lying on the ground ), with the motto Vanitas (" vanity "); and
" it is very hard and difficult to put certain prices to any such things ... is necessary because prices of such victuals be many times enhanced and raised by the Greedy Covetousness and Appetites of the Owners of such Victuals, by occasion of ingrossing and regrating the same, more than upon any reasonable or just ground or cause, to the great damage and impoverishing of the King's subjects.
The site of the stadium is only 500 metres away from the North Sea, and with only the King's Links golf course between the stadium and the beach, the ground is one of the coldest football grounds in Britain.
The King's forces found themselves ground down by the efficiency of Parliament's New Model Army — backed by the financial muscle of the City of London.
This range of ground, from the King's Mill on the left to the high ground west from the ravine, on the right, was occupied by the Mexican forces.
* King's Chapel burying ground
The burying ground at King's Chapel is the site of the graves of many historical figures.
On 16 June 1536, Petre appeared in Convocation and made a novel claim to preside over its deliberations, on the ground that the King was supreme head of the church, Cromwell was the King's vicegerent, and he was Cromwell's deputy.
The British infantry, with the 1 / 1st ( Royal Scots ) Foot and the 100th Foot leading and the 1 / 8th ( King's ) Foot in reserve, were advancing very awkwardly and becoming bunched and disordered, because Riall had formed them into line for an advance over uneven ground with some very long grass instead of keeping them in column, in which they could have advanced more rapidly.
The Wirral Show, a free-to-enter annual event, was held on open ground off the King's Parade at New Brighton.
:* The King's College School sports ground
As the rebels defeated Targaryen forces, he planned to burn King's Landing to the ground with all its inhabitants instead of allowing the rebels to take the city.
This sequel to the original King's Quest provided not just a second look at the life of King ( formerly Sir ) Graham of Daventry, it also began a tradition of using King's Quest as a training ground for future designers.

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