Huntingdon Elms once lined the Ladies ' Mile avenue through the centre of the Common, but many were lost to the Great Storm of 1987 and replaced by the Dutch elm cultivar ' Lobel '.

Other palms growing close to the common include Trachycarpus fortunei, ( Ladies Mile, Rock Gardens & Rose Garden ), Chamaerops humilis ( in front of the Pyramids Centre ), Butia capitata ( in Burguoyne Gardens ) and Brahea armata, ( Canoe Lake & D-Day Island ).

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies ' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue ) and Seventh Avenue – to the east, and the Hudson River and West Street to the west.

Within a couple of decades, New York's retail center had moved uptown, forming a stretch of retail shopping from " Marble Palace " that was called the " Ladies ' Mile ".

The building anchors the south ( downtown ) end of Madison Square and the north ( uptown ) end of the Ladies ' Mile Historic District.

* Ladies ' Mile Historic District

The store later moved to 18th Street and Broadway, on the " Ladies ' Mile ", the elite shopping district of the time, where it remained for nearly forty years.

In 1989, the Commission designated the Ladies ' Mile Historic District.

The Flatiron District encompasses within its boundaries the Ladies ' Mile Historic District and the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, a National Historic Site.

* Ladies ' Mile Historic District

* Drive to Protect the Ladies ' Mile

They are a two-piece band, featuring Genevieve Heistek ( Sackville, The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary, Set Fire to Flames, Land of Kush ) on Viola and Eric Craven ( Shortwave, Sackville, formerly Thee Silver Mt.

There is an Iron Age hill fort at Clifton Camp on Observatory Hill on the down, and there are remnants of an Iron Age or Roman field system between Ladies Mile and Bristol Zoo.

After the war, the development of the Ladies ' Mile shopping district along Fifth and Sixth Avenues above 14th Street had the effect of pulling the playhouses uptown, so that a " Rialto " theatrical strip came about on Broadway between 14th and 23rd Streets, between Union Square and Madison Square.

" Its flagship store was originally located at Broadway and 19th Street, in " Ladies ' Mile ", relocating later to 414 Fifth Avenue at 38th Street, former flagship of Franklin Simon & Co.

In the 1850s, he also followed other retailers such as Macy's, Lord and Taylor and B. Altman and Company to the area which was to be called “ Ladies Mile ”, on Broadway and Sixth Avenue between 9th Street and 23rd Street.

The easternmost block of West 23rd is part of the Ladies Mile Historic District.

The Ladies ' Mile Historic District | historic Ladies ' Mile shopping district that thrived along Sixth Avenue left behind some of the largest retail spaces in the city.

Sights along Sixth Avenue include Juan Pablo Duarte Square, Greenwich Village with the polychrome High Victorian Gothic Jefferson Market Courthouse, currently occupied by the Jefferson Market Library ; the surviving stretch of grand department stores of 1880 to 1900 in the Ladies ' Mile Historic District that runs from 18th Street to 23rd Street ; the former wholesale flower district ; Herald Square at 34th Street, site of Macy's department store ; Bryant Park from 40th to 42nd Street ; and the corporate stretch above 42nd Street, which includes the Bank of America Tower ( New York ), W. R. Grace Building, International Center of Photography, Rockefeller Center — including the Time-Life Building, News Corp. Building, Exxon Building and McGraw-Hill Building, as well as Radio City Music Hall.

Adjacent to his home, ' Ellerslie House ', was a track along which Mrs Graham was in the habit of riding her horse every morning, now a street called Ladies Mile.

In the Two Fat Ladies episode called " Lunch ," Jennifer Paterson is seen ordering a cup of Bovril.

* The standard translation of The Book of the City of Ladies is by Earl Jeffrey Richards, ( 1982 ).

The first English translation of Christine de Pizan ’ s The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of the Three Virtues is Sarah Lawson ’ s ( 1985 ).

This is the most common method used in golf clubs and is the only method allowed in the PGA ( Professional Golf Association ) and LPGA ( Ladies Professional Golf Association ).

On July 5, 1852, Douglass delivered an address to the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, which eventually became known as " What to the slave is the 4th of July?

It is an exhibit containing red suits worn by former First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush meant to raise awareness by highlighting America's first ladies.

* Minerva is featured in the emblem of Ballarat Clarendon College, Australia, as derivative of the emblem of Clarendon Ladies ' College.

The Book of the City of Ladies ( 1405 ), or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose.

These women are " housed " in the City of Ladies, which is actually Christine's book.

The Book of the City of Ladies is an allegorical society in which the word " lady " is defined as a woman of noble spirit, instead of noble birth.

* February 16 – The Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.

Under the auspices of the GAA, Gaelic football is a male-only sport ; however, the related sport of ladies ' Gaelic football is governed by the Ladies ' Gaelic Football Association.

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

* Ladies Night is a New Zealand stage comedy about unemployed male workers who put on a strip show at a club as a way to raise some money.

* The making of a detail of Admonitions of the Imperial Instructress to Court Ladies ( attributed to Gu Kaizhi and being from the Six Dynasties period ) begins ( approximate year ) and is completed in 406.

Donyale Luna became the first African American model to appear in Vogue, Naomi Sims, who is sometimes regarded as the first black supermodel, became the first African American to feature on the cover of Ladies ' Home Journal in 1968.

In 1871, Cyrus and Susan Mills paid $ 5, 000 for the Young Ladies ' Seminary in Benicia, renamed it Mills College, and moved it to its current location in Oakland, adjacent to what is now Seminary Boulevard.

According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.

The Old English " puca " is a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands ( like the German and Dutch " Weisse Frauen " and " Witte Wieven " and the French " Dames Blanches ," all " White Ladies "), or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn.

The resulting " Teague " Texaco station design is a functional white building with green trimmings featuring one or more service bays for " Washing ", " Marfak Lubrication ", etc., an office area with large plate glass window for display of tires, batteries, and accessories, along with " Men " and " Ladies " restrooms featuring Texaco-green tile walls and floors.