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The various collections in the fields of archeology, painting, graphics, iconography, sculpture, decorative arts, numismatics and architectural drawings, now exceed 250 000 objects. Until the start of the renovations in 2010 there was available exhibitions showing seven centuries of Warsaw history, from its foundation to the present day.
Gildas swathes the condemnations in allegorical beasts from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, likening the kings to the beasts described there: a lion, a leopard, a bear, and a dragon. [11] The kings excoriated by Gildas are: "Constantine the tyrannical whelp of the unclean lioness of Damnonia". [12] [13] "thou lion's whelp ...
The Articles of the Warsaw Confederation were the foundational document for the election, incorporated into the statutes that every newly elected king had to swear to uphold (the "Henrician Articles"), [3] thus becoming constitutional provisions alongside the Pacta conventa, also instituted in 1573. Despite some generalities, the Warsaw ...
Sigismund's Column (Polish: Kolumna Zygmunta), originally erected in 1644, is located at Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland and is one of Warsaw's most famous landmarks as well as the first secular monument in the form of a column in modern history. [2]
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights.
"The Jewish residential quarter in Warsaw has ceased to exist". www.holocaust-history.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. (IPN copy; German original and English translation) Jürgen Stroop (May 1943). Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!. File Unit: USA Exhibit 275, 1943–1946. Archived from the original on 2015 ...
The Deeds of the Saxons, or Three Books of Annals (Latin: Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres) is a three-volume chronicle of 10th-century Germany, written by Widukind of Corvey. [1] Widukind, proud of his people and history, begins his chronicon, not with Rome , but with a brief synopsis derived from the orally-transmitted history of ...
Polish Book Imports. Lodge, Richard (1931). "English Neutrality in the War of the Polish Succession". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 14: 141– 173. doi:10.2307/3678511. JSTOR 3678511. S2CID 155803033. Ward, AW; Prothero, GW, eds. (1909). The Cambridge Modern History; Volume VI The 18th century. Cambridge University Press.