Not a great lover of Berlin, he later built a new palace, the Sanssouci, at Potsdam in 1744-7, followed by the New Palace in 1763-9, so the road now had to be made fit for a King, plus all his courtiers and staff.

Castrated men — eunuchs – were often admitted to special social classes and were used particularly to staff bureaucracies and palace households: in particular, the harem.

It was used as a dining-room for the 2, 000 staff who worked in the palace.

Inside the palace the staff was enlarged and smartened to suit a fabulously wealthy ducal household.

Since 1922, it is a complex of buildings, of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its members and staff.

The Irish government opted not to close the former ducal palace for immediate renovation ( partly due to cost and partly due to the difficulty the Oireachtas would have in functioning, given that the former ducal palace is a central point through which members and staff have to travel to access other parts of the complex ).

He took advantage of this opportunity to engage in a sort of house cleaning: the raja's palace was plundered, and its staff reduced to the point where virtually everyone employed there was also a spy for Hyder Ali.

In folklore, a magician escorted Emperor Illustrious August to the palace of the moon goddess across a silver bridge that was conjured up by him tossing his staff into the air.

He planned the villa on generous proportions so as to provide accommodation for his guests and for his large domestic staff which is said to have included cooks, food tasters, torch bearers, pantryboys, wig makers, a winder of the clocks in the palace, physicians, as well as a baker to make black bread forfeeding his hunting dogs!

Londinium is not recorded as being called the ' capital city ' of Britain, but there are several strong indications for this proposition, such as the building of a Roman Governor's palace, the building of a military camp at the beginning of the 2nd century and several tombstones belonging to members of a governor's staff.

After considerable effort by the palace staff to create a table, chair, and cutlery of appropriate size for him to use, the BFG is given a lavish breakfast, and the Queen forms a plan to capture the other giants.

However, only sixteen days later a fire destroyed the palace, killing three members of staff.

The palace became an important administrative centre for the bishops ' lands in Yorkshire and served as a major residence for the bishops and their staff.

A man by the name of Zhang Chai ( Zh: 张差 ) armed with no more than a wooden staff managed to chase off eunuchs guarding the gates and broke into Ci-Qing palace ( Zh: 慈庆宫 ), then the Crown Prince ’ s living quarters.

Taichang was born in the tenth year of the Longqing Emperor's reign to a palace woman née Wang, serving on the staff of Wanli's mother, Empress Dowager Li.

" The ghost of a former staff member is said to have given tours of the palace when the palace should have been empty.

Since then he has become Lancre's entire standing army ( except when he's lying down ), as well as the civil service and most of the palace staff.

Babar and his family, as well as his advisors and some royal staff, live in a large palace in the center of the city.

From vantage points across the straits, including the Sultan of Johore's palace, as well as aerial reconnaissance and infiltrators, the Japanese commander, General Tomoyuki Yamashita and his staff gained excellent knowledge of the Allied positions.

The palace staff begins an investigation and soon realizes that Ralph was set up through Gordon Halliwell, the Palace butler ; Miranda confesses to Ralph her role in the scandal.

He showed himself qualified as a sort of poet-painter to the Bavarian court ; he organized a staff of trained executants, and covered five halls in the new palace with frescoes illustrative of the Nibelungenlied.

The palace was redecorated and new apartments were created for the maids and staff of the Duchess.

So much untidiness of mind and household does not attract the interest of the theatergoer ( unless he has been living in a gilded palace, perhaps, and wants a real big heap of contrast ).

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

Schloss Charlottenburg, which was burnt out in the Second World War and largely destroyed, has been rebuilt and is the largest surviving historical palace in Berlin.

The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times, including a Saxon palace.

Sluter was also responsible for the main part of the work on Philip's tomb, which ( restored and partly reconstructed ) has been moved to the Museum of Fine Arts which is housed in the former ducal palace in Dijon.

Cairo has been a crossroads of Arab commerce and culture for millennia, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural landmark palace.

Maximilian and Carlota made Chapultepec Castle their home, which has been the only palace in North America to house sovereigns.

St James's Palace has confirmed that the prince was in the photographs and it contacted the PCC after the palace had heard a number of British newspapers were considering publishing the photographs.

Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

The result has been termed an English " Renaissance palace ".

The Louvre has been a repository of sculpted material since its time as a palace ; however, only ancient architecture was displayed until 1824, except for Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave.

Meanwhile, a huge crowd has assembled outside the palace.

Since its publishing, Little Nemo has had an influence on other artists, including Alan Moore, in Miracleman # 4, when the Miracleman family end up in a palace called " Sleepy Town ," which has imagery similar to Little Nemo's.

It has been tentatively identified with a cavern discovered in 2007, below the remains of Augustus ' palace.

In classical Greece the priests at Delphi were called Labryades ()-the men of the double axe .- The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

The ruins of Minos ' palace at Knossos have been found, but the labyrinth has not.

The enormous number of rooms, staircases and corridors in the palace has led some archaeologists to suggest that the palace itself was the source of the labyrinth myth, an idea generally discredited today.

He laid out new streets and squares and built within it the famous " palace without a rival ", the plan of which has been mostly recovered and has overall dimensions of about.

Because no documentary material existed of the storming of the palace, Eistenstein's re-creation of the event has become the source material for historians and filmmakers, giving it further legitimacy as the accepted historical record, which illustrates its success as a propaganda film.