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Step back in time at the 1620s House and Garden (Leicestershire County Council)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. Leicestershire County Council) ... The 1620s House and Garden at Donington le Heath, formerly Donington le Heath Manor House, will open to the public on Thursday, 26 May, after a year-long renovation programme ... We've made some exciting changes to the manor house and I'm delighted to welcome visitors to the 1620s House and Garden ... Original documenthttp.//www.leicestershire.gov.uk/news/step-back-in-time-at-the-1620s-house-and-garden....

Free printable American history lessons: Jamestown, Pocahontas, Virginia Company

Edit The Examiner 13 May 2016
May 14 commemorates the landing of English colonists to what would become Jamestown, the first English settlement in the New World, in 1607. Tampa Bay Times said on May 12 that this marks the 409th anniversary of the Jamestown landing ... The story starts back in England. The year is 1606 ... It meant they didn't do manual labor ... The colonists lived in the fort until somewhere around the middle of the 1620s when a more permanent town was built....
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The Nachtwacht, by Rembrandt The Rijksmuseum possesses the largest and most important collection of classical Dutch art.[91] It opened in 1885. Its collection consists of nearly one million objects

Painting Found In New Jersey Basement Turns Out To Be Long-Lost Rembrandt

Edit WorldNews.com 10 May 2016
... at between $500 and $800.But after the auction was announced, two Paris art dealers and two other bidders in Europe realized it was actually part of a series created by an 18-year-old Rembrandt van Rijn in the 1620s.Called “The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell),” the painting is one of five highlighting the human senses....

A long-lost Rembrandt found in N.J.

Edit NJ dot com 10 May 2016
A painting by Dutch master Rembrandt was found in a New Jersey basement ... John Nye, who operates the Bloomfield-based Nye and Co ... But after the auction was announced, two Paris art dealers and two other bidders in Europe realized it was actually part of a series created by an 18-year-old Rembrandt van Rijn in the 1620s ... One painting from the series is still missing ... 28 ... ....

The Dutch Konnect

Edit The Hindu 06 May 2016
The Netherlands Business Support Office in Chennai, the oldest of the NBSOs in India, turned 20 last week. That is a small period of time when compared with the 414-year-old connection our region has with the Dutch ... The subsequent history of the place is well known ... A flotilla of five ships set off in 1618 and one managed to reach Tarangampadi in 1620 ... The Dutch dubash, Malayappa Chetty, traded with the British in the 1620s ... Keywords....

The adventures of Sir Kenelm Digby: 17th-century pirate, philosopher and foodie (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Cambridge). On 7 January 1628, a fleet of ships weighed anchor off the coast of Kent and set sail for the Mediterranean. As fleets go, this one was small. It comprised just two vessels - the Eagle and the Elizabeth and George - fitted out for war ... The mission of crew and captains was simple ... Digby was a man of many parts ... The 1620s saw England engaged in an expensive war with its Roman Catholic neighbours ... (noodl....

Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro

Edit Skiddle 26 Apr 2016
Mortimer Wheeler House in London. Friday 13th May 2016. 12.15pm til 1.45pm. No age restrictions ... Event Info. Venue.  . Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro on Fri 13th May 2016. From the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson in the 1590s to those of Dekker, Ford and Rowley in the 1620s, the Curtain was one of the most enduring performance places in early modern London ... Tickets available here ... ....

Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer review – the forgotten women of classical music

Edit The Guardian 26 Apr 2016
Both Mendelssohns were composers, yet it is Felix not Fanny who is remembered. Why have so many female artists remained unheard? ... In two volumes, it contained around 5,000 entries ... She found herself in the right place at the right time in the Tuscan court of the 1620s, when Cosimo II de’ Medici’s early death left two women as regents for the young Ferdinando – Christina of Lorraine and her daughter-in-law, Maria Magdalena ... Twitter ... ....

How Shakespeare’s works were nearly lost to us

Edit New York Post 21 Apr 2016
April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The world will celebrate him as the greatest writer in the history of the English language. But his lasting fame wasn’t inevitable. It almost did not happen. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616 on his 52nd birthday ... By the time of his death, he had retired and was considered past his prime. By the 1620s, his plays were no longer being performed in theaters....

Video: Take look inside stunning Manor House, Donaghadee - Homefinder property of the week

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Apr 2016
For the first time since it was built almost 400 years ago, this magnificent historic Grade I listed manor house in the quaint harbour town of Donaghadee has gone on the market. The property has been in the same family since the 1620s when it was built by Hugh Montgomery. Share Go To ... Marie-Angelique settled the Montgomery Estates on the De la Cherois and Crommelin families, her cousins ... Manor House, Donaghadee. Manor House, Donaghadee....

Religion news in brief

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 14 Apr 2016
Franklin Graham. Christians should deepen political work. JACKSON, Miss ... The son of Billy Graham is telling people who attend the rallies that Christians need to get more involved in politics and bring biblical principles to public office ... ___ ... ___ ... The huge slab was uncovered in recent days at the site of the now-disappeared first cathedral of Mexico City, built in 1524 a few yards from the current cathedral that replaced it in the 1620s....

Mexican experts find early burial in 1st colonial cathedral

Edit Tampa Bay Online 13 Apr 2016
The huge slab was uncovered in recent days at the site of the now-disappeared first cathedral of Mexico City, built in 1524 yards from the current cathedral that replaced it in the 1620s ... The cathedral was simply built over the temple and apparently used the same floor ... The second cathedral was built next to it between 1573 and the 1620s, when the old cathedral was torn down and, apparently, quickly forgotten ... ....

Discovery of priest's grave sheds light on first days of Spanish conquest of Mexico

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
The huge slab was uncovered in recent days at the site of the now-disappeared first cathedral of Mexico City, built in 1524 yards from the current cathedral that replaced it in the 1620s. Related. Conquistadors sacrificed and eaten by Aztec-era people, archaeologists say ... The second cathedral was built next to it between 1573 and the 1620s, when the old cathedral was torn down and, apparently, quickly forgotten. Twitter ... ....
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