His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.

The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic medieval manuscript Codex Regius (" Royal Book ").

In 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart, who became known as " The Old Pretender ," attempted an invasion with a French fleet, but the Royal Navy prevented any from landing.

* 1971 Royal Cities of the Old Testament, London, 1971.

While at Oxford University he produced The Tempest, and this led to his joining the Royal Court Theatre production team in London, and then Bristol Old Vic.

* Old Vic theatre founded ( as the Royal Coburg Hall ) in London.

Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ( Old Masters Picture Gallery ), the Dresden Porcelain Collection ( Porzellansammlung ), the Armory ( Rüstkammer ) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon ( Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments ).

Cork City was given an English Royal Charter in 1318 and for many centuries was an outpost for Old English culture.

Gallaudet then travelled to Paris and learned the educational methods of the French Royal Institution for the Deaf, a combination of Old French Sign Language and the signs developed by Abbé de l ’ Épée.

As the runners reach the, they pass by the Old Royal Naval College and head towards Cutty Sark drydocked in Greenwich.

Queen Margrethe II can trace her lineage back to the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth from this time, making the Danish Royal Family the oldest in the world.

The next day, in the forenoon on Friday, all gather again to pray the Royal Hours, a special expanded celebration of the Little Hours ( including the First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, Ninth Hour and Typica ) with the addition of scripture readings ( Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel ) and hymns about the Crucifixion at each of the Hours ( some of the material from the previous night is repeated ).

Even less familiar works have been staged: A Fair Quarrel was performed at the National Theatre, and The Old Law has been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In the 13th century, Madrid was the only city of the region that preserved its own juridical personality, at first with the Old Fuero ( Charter ) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339.

The musical has also been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007.

In September 1957, she made her first professional stage appearance with the Old Vic Company, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, as Ophelia in Hamlet, then her London debut in the same production at the Old Vic.

A Royal Commission was appointed to make a final draft ; the Treaty of Westminster was signed by the King on 9 February Old Style, 19 February New Style, 1674.

Central Greenwich Town contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site centred on Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College and the Old Royal Observatory.

In 2000, the University began a relocation to the Old Royal Naval College, several miles to the west in Greenwich town centre, leaving only an administrative presence in Woolwich.

Insofar as central government is concerned, the borough is divided among the constituencies of Old Bexley and Sidcup ; Erith and Thamesmead ( shared with the Royal Borough of Greenwich ); and Bexleyheath and Crayford.

This was eventually established at Greenwich by his daughter Mary II, who in 1692-1693 commissioned Christopher Wren to design the Royal Hospital for Seamen ( now the Old Royal Naval College ).

* 10 exhibits, displayed at the Portsmouth Historical Society, New Hampshire State Archives, Portsmouth Athenaeum, NH Art Association, Seacoast African-American Cultural Center, Children's Museum of Portsmouth, Green Acre Baha ’ i School, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Old York Historical Society, Wentworth by the Sea hotel, and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

In 1987 the Queen was aboard the P & O ship Pacific Princess when it moored alongside the Old Royal Naval College for the company's 150th anniversary celebrations.

Detail of William and Mary from the ceiling of the Old Royal Naval College | Painted Hall

* Burton, James G. ( 1993 ) The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD: ISBN 1-55750-081-9

Now retired, Martin has written several books about " Old Ironsides ", as well as numerous articles on various aspects of the ship and her times, plus the " Salty Talk " column in the journal Naval History.

It has two anchor areas: Old Port Royal and the King ’ s Royal Naval Dockyard.

Ernakulam district has two airports, Naval airport in W. island ( Old Cochin airport ) and Cochin International Airport ( CIAL ).

Painting by James Thornhill, c. 1700, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Outside is a statue of General James Wolfe in a small plaza from which there are majestic views across to the former Greenwich Hospital ( the Old Royal Naval College and now the University of Greenwich ) and then towards the river, the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, the City of London to the northwest and the Millennium Dome to the north.

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This is now called the Old Royal Naval College, after its later use from 1873 to 1998.

The Palace was demolished in the seventeenth century and replaced with the Greenwich Hospital ( now The Old Royal Naval College ) in the late seventeenth century.

* A Short History of the Old Royal Naval College-Greenwich Palace

A number of well-known tourist attractions are in the surrounding area, including the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich foot tunnel, Trinity College of Music, and the Old Royal Naval College.

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He is a member of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Association of Old Crows.

Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm Alvan Clark & Sons ground lenses for refracting telescopes, including the largest in the world at the time: the at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago ( the lens was originally intended for Ole Miss ), the two telescopes at the United States Naval Observatory and McCormick Observatory, the at Pulkovo Observatory ( destroyed in the Siege of Leningrad ; only the lens survives ), the telescope at Lick Observatory ( still third-largest ) and later the at Yerkes Observatory, which remains the largest successful refracting telescope in the world.

The main campus is located on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, a central location within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Old Royal Naval College with Queen's House ( behind the statue ) and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich | Royal Observatory.