Albret
Albret , former duchy, SW France, in the Landes of Gascony. The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre by the marriage (1484) of Jean d'Albret with Catherine de Foix, queen of Navarre, who also brought him Foix and Béarn . Their son, Henri d'Albret, married (1527) Margaret of Angoulême ( Margaret of Navarre ). The marriage added Armagnac to Henri's territories, which now included nearly all of Gascony. In 1550, Albret was raised to a duchy. Henri's daughter and heir, Jeanne d'Albret , married Antoine de Bourbon , and their combined territories were inherited by Henry of Navarre, who in 1589 became king of France as Henry IV. Henry added Albret to the royal domain in 1607 as part of the province of Gascony.
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Colosseum Online to Offer High-Speed Wireless Broadband Services Through Agreement With Fuzion.
Business Wire; 2/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...Wireless Internet Connectivity Enables Colosseum To Break the Bandwidth Bottleneck in the Local Loop Colosseum Online, a Toronto-based Internet service...Inc. announced an agreement enabling Colosseum to deliver first-mile broadband solutions...
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The Roman Colosseum.(The Modern Wonders)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...emperor Vespasian (A.D. 69-79), the Colosseum was officially dedicated the year after...by his son and successor. Titus. The Colosseum was not completed, however, until A...gladiatorial combats and other games held in the Colosseum increased as each emperor attempted to...
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`GLADIATOR' COLOSSEUM WAS ALMOST A VIRTUAL RE-CREATION.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/11/2000; 697 words
; ...in about A.D. 180, when Rome's Colosseum was already a century old. Meticulously...magnificent, yes, but well-used. The Colosseum, at the heart of the $100 million epic...in movies. ``Where could we find a Colosseum?'' executive producer Walter F. Parkes...
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VIDEO: Cher to Headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
PR Newswire; 2/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...she will headline in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace beginning May 6. To...over a span of three years. Cher at The Colosseum, an impressive spectacle designed exclusively...prestigious entertainment address, The Colosseum, joining Bette Midler and Elton John...
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The Colosseum
Magazine article from: Healthcare Design; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...building profile in the world: the Colosseum. Rome has much to offer in displaying...able to tour the fabled interior of the Colosseum, something we yearned to do after circumventing...In a nutshell, we thought that the Colosseum was well over 2,000 years old and had...
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Rome's Colosseum could be built from Temple loot
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 9/2/2001; ; 662 words
; ...Post 09-02-2001 Headline: Rome's Colosseum could be built from Temple loot Byline...WASHINGTON - Construction of Rome's Colosseum may have been paid for partly with booty...be a fragmentary inscription from the Colosseum floor, classics professor Louis Feldman...
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City Life: Rome: Why all roads lead again to the Colosseum
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/26/2001; ; 700+ words
; ON THE grimy outer wall of the Colosseum, at the first-storey level, is a...Arena, which tells the story of the Colosseum, inside its own walls, for the first...in many ways he is a metaphor for the Colosseum. The monument has been photographed...
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Death Penalty Opposed at Colosseum
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/27/2000; 331 words
; ...27-2000 Death Penalty Opposed at Colosseum ROME (AP) -- Golden lights illuminated the stone arches of the Colosseum on Thursday, Rome's way of celebrating...in Uganda. City officials lit the Colosseum to recognize Uganda's decision on...
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Luciano Pavarotti In Concert The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Business Wire; 1/13/2004; 700+ words
; ...with an exclusive performance at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday, February...Luciano Pavarotti would choose The Colosseum at Caesars Palace to make his first performance...Pavarotti in an intimate venue such as The Colosseum makes this performance a truly unique...
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Cher to Headline in Las Vegas at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Magazine article from: Entertainment Close-up; 2/12/2008; 700+ words
; ...Cher to Headline in Las Vegas at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia...she will headline in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, beginning May 6...over a span of three years. Cher at The Colosseum, a spectacle designed exclusively for...
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Colosseum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Colosseum or Coliseum , Ital. Colosseo, common name...Christians were thrown there to beasts. The Colosseum has been damaged several times by earthquakes...See J. Pearson, Arena: The Story of the Colosseum (1974).
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Roman architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...chiefly to the period between 100 BC and AD 300, including the Colosseum (AD 70-82), the Pantheon (AD 118-125; see under pantheon...the stage itself. For the oval amphitheaters such as the colosseum, there are no known Greek precedents. The monumental or...
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Giulio Romano
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...quite semicircles, nor are they segments of circles. It is a distortion of themes from Bramante's House of Raphael and the Colosseum, with allusions to the Solomonic columns in San Pietro, Rome. Such preoccupations with Antiquity and with the gravitas...
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Roman art and architecture
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...or gods and goddesses. In sculpture, the Romans excelled in portrait busts and reliefs. In architecture, notable features include the adoption of the arch , vault , and dome . Fine examples include the Pantheon and Colosseum in Rome.
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Burton, Decimus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...s supervision he designed Cornwall and Clarence Terraces, Regent's Park. At the age of 23 he designed and built the Colosseum, Regent's Park (1823–7), a vast Pantheon -like domed structure bigger than the dome of St Paul's Cathedral...
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