Limousin
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Limousin, France A region named after the Lemovices (see
Limoges). At the beginning of the 20th century some residents wore a distinctive caped cloak; some early motor cars had a special roof that resembled these hoods and they became known as limousines.
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Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that two fine pieces of porcelain - acquired in good faith by the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum - were loo.
M2 Presswire; 6/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Culture Minister...I am grateful to Sir David Hirst, to the...to the panel." The Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate said: "The Syndicate of The Fitzwilliam Museum approves the...donated to the Museum by William King in 1939, soon...
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LORDS, LADIES GO BACK IN TIME
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 6/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of Roanoke dressed and played the parts of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Lady Anne Fitzwilliam on Saturday. Their 14-year-old son, Evan, performed as Master William Fitzwilliam. On Sunday, the Goodwins came...
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'It was a show trial that Stalin would have been more than happy with, and Hitler, too'.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 9/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...stitch-up, a new book reveals. Sir John Perrot, from Pembrokeshire...been offending a fellow noble, Sir William Fitzwilliam, who was a kinsman of the powerful...And The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot - which includes the...
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The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...regnum cecilianum," asserting that Sir Robert Cecil's rise to power...Morgan's analysis of "The Fall of Sir John Perrot" concerns faction...efforts to protect his own client, Sir William Fitzwilliam. The next three chapters address...
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Solon His Follie, or, A Politique Discourse Touching the Reformation of Common-weales Conquered, Declined or Corrupted.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...valuable editions of two other comparable treatises - William Herbert's Croftus in 1992 and now Richard Beacon...intended as a veiled assault on Lord Burghley's protege Sir William Fitzwilliam, and could thus be seen as a minor part of the power...
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There&s no place like home ! for a holiday.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 9/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...National Trust property in Moneymore. This was built by William Conyngham, a plump and prosperous looking chap known...members whose portraits line the walls. Take Colonel Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, the possessor of not only a remarkable...
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Village Life - Emley.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 11/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...to quell the rebellious northerners who objected to William the Conqueror taking the English throne. It took...granted a royal charter authorising the local lord, Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, to hold a market each Thursday, as well as an annual...
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The Emley timeline.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 11/21/2005; 599 words
; 600/700 ad: First settlers. 1069: William the Conqueror's troops visit Emley and destroy much...Ironstone mining commences at Bentley Grange. 1253: Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, the local lord, is granted a royal charter to hold...
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High spirits
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...turned it into a palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street...determined to visit the Fitzwilliam exhibition celebrating...figures as John Ruskin, William Morris and George Bernard...
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Arts: How to ruin a building The greatest aspiration that architect Sir John Soane had for his works was that they should tumble down.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; Sir John Soane finished...a new exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum...Piranesi, Robert Adam and William Chambers as well as...borrowed from the late Sir Brinsley Ford, the...Syndics" of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge...
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Sir William Fitzwilliam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir William Fitzwilliam 1526-99, lord deputy of Ireland. He acquired (1547) land in Ireland by a grant of Edward VI. Although a Protestant, he...
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Fitzwilliam, Sir William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Fitzwilliam, Sir William (1526–99), vice...nearly £6,000 short. Fitzwilliam was nevertheless appointed chief...quarrelled with their commanders. Fitzwilliam was back again to retrench in 1588...
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Raeburn, Sir Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Raeburn, Sir Henry ( b Stockbridge [now a district of Edinburgh], 4...also had a penchant for vivid and original lighting effects ( William Glendonwyn , c. 1795, Fitzwilliam Mus., Cambridge) and could be remarkably sensitive when...
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museums of art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Art (see under Corcoran, William Wilson ) and the Phillips Collection...Collection (see under Wallace, Sir Richard ), and Sir John Soane's Museum (all...Ashmolean Museum (Oxford); the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge); the National...
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art galleries
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...hospital in the 1740s, partly sponsored by William Hogarth . After 1768 the Royal Academy...the first major public gallery after Sir Peter Bourgeois left his collection to Dulwich College. The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, endowed by the...
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